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I teach the recent EE grads when they come to work here. I begin at basic electrical theory including ohms law, reactance, impedance, basic component theory. Out of over a 100 EE's from good universities, I have only had a handful that actually had a solid grasp of what i was teaching. That is not a positive sign. I have taken electronics technicians from the Navy, Coast Guard and avionics electronics guys from the Air Force and they do quite a bit better. The one advantage that the EE grads have is the Calculus. Out of the folks that I've trained, only about 10-15% go on to become great engineers. I think that college has become less focused on fundamental science and spread out to too much on the social sciences and humanities. I've never had a Cal Poly or MIT grad, but I'm willing to bet that they come out far stronger on fundamentals and teaching them would be a joy. At least I hope so. I'll take an enquiring mind over a formally educated cram and forget student any day.
Not interviews, these were hires. I don' t do the hiring. I get them after they have been here for 6mos to about 2-3 years. Depends on where they are at in their professional development and which dept they are in. I just teach a class. We have over 3500 employees at this location. Approximately 40% are EE's. Each class is approx. 8 to 10 people. I do two to three classes a year. I hit 20 years of service in two months. I've been teaching the class for the last 10 years.