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Originally Posted by dieseljeep

You mean to say, they don't know Thevenin and Norton's theorem either?
I'd have to get back to the books! It's been years.

No they don't. Ohm's law would be the only thing that a modern JR college curriculum would include and perhaps Kirchoff's Law; and that would be very limited. I don't mean to put the younger techs down for what they were never taught. I just think that it's a shame that what was once a respectable discipline that was pretty darned involved and anchored in the roots of the science of electricity/electronics has like so many things been dumbed down so, yet the students attain the same credential as students of old who I feel had to work harder to get what they got.

I have been told that my mindset on this suggests that I or anyone else should attend a university. I say that's wrong because you are not going to perhaps get through a high school trades course and then get a couple of years of college under your belt to find yourself beginning the theories and the math to prove them which is the foundation for all of what we do when completing your Bachelor degree which at that point would be electrical engineering. I guess there are better and worse JR college programs and a lot of what I remember was a bit of a joke. And that's back when it was a lot harder than today.

I remember an exam question on the definition of voltage. The correct written answer was "a force." Sure, it's a force. So was a big part of Star Wars! Just an example. I am told now that they have almost completely converted the focus to what is known a Mechatronics. Basically automation, so some factory can get you to be the grease monkey and the electronics tech. The I.T. guy gets an office! So the college tossed a truckload of oscilloscopes, function generators, Variacs and other great tools in the dumpster one day. You couldn't even buy them as they were government property to be destroyed. I won't bother going into grading most tests based on the lowest grade so basically nobody flunks out. Money!!!