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UoM - Inferrior in engineering?
excal:
--- Quote from: coblin on August 28, 2008, 06:40:54 pm ---I'm a 2nd year student and I don't think it's "too theory based." In reality, what you do in university, regardless of how "practical" it is, isn't likely to be what you'll actually be using in your future career. Technology advances so fast. It's much better to have theory (the ideas behind fishing) than merely knowing how to use the current technology (how to use the fishing rod), for in an ever-upgrading world, who knows what they'll be using tomorrow?
Nothing is more practical than most good theories ;). That's my opinion anyway.
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Studying a technology degree, I couldn't agree more.
AppleXY:
--- Quote from: coblin on August 28, 2008, 06:40:54 pm ---I'm a 2nd year student and I don't think it's "too theory based." In reality, what you do in university, regardless of how "practical" it is, isn't likely to be what you'll actually be using in your future career. Technology advances so fast. It's much better to have theory (the ideas behind fishing) than merely knowing how to use the current technology (how to use the fishing rod), for in an ever-upgrading world, who knows what they'll be using tomorrow?
Nothing is more practical than most good theories ;). That's my opinion anyway.
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Yeah, that's exactly what Prof. Paul Kofman said in his Finance information session at Open Day. Instead of teaching how to operate today's equipment, the University teaches the theory and foundations behind it, meaning that you can operate today's and tommorrow's equipment.
Collin Li:
The important question that follows is: do other universities fall in the trap of choosing the opposite? I'm pretty sure RMIT does. I've heard they're all about computer software packages and hardly do/understand any of the maths.
ell:
--- Quote from: coblin on August 28, 2008, 06:40:54 pm ---I'm a 2nd year student and I don't think it's "too theory based." In reality, what you do in university, regardless of how "practical" it is, isn't likely to be what you'll actually be using in your future career. Technology advances so fast. It's much better to have theory (the ideas behind fishing) than merely knowing how to use the current technology (how to use the fishing rod), for in an ever-upgrading world, who knows what they'll be using tomorrow?
Nothing is more practical than most good theories ;). That's my opinion anyway.
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That's a good point. Although I think people should steer clear of UoM if they want to pursue something in IT. IMO the theory there is largely irrelevant (see UoM vs. RMIT software engineering course structure). I'm not too sure on other unis.
Collin Li:
Yeah, that's a valid criticism, and IT at Melbourne is quite bad, I hear.
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