to hear from Bob Pease and others, via letters in ED - EE now fucking *IS* computer bloody 'simulation' via various flavors of Spice. No assembly of *components, thus feel for the 3-D view, heat transfer consequences.. Little savvy thus - of the subtleties of *measuring*! = 50 different ways to misuse that probe and get a lie!

V. poor appreciation of subtleties of RF. (Little ken of circulating currents in traces, ground-return paths etc.) And to top it off (merely anecdotal, from an avionics guy in FL who was trying to hire an EE, interviewed several)

*Get This*

..er, hardly passing-familiarity with / 'not used it much...' / er 'not much use made of'

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Ohm's Law !!!

* Heathkit died.. no one *builds* anything - including now many so-called Radio Amateurs (who also need not Know anything about RF either, for lots of automated talk-talk stuff they can get 'licenses' for). They *buy* it, often for Yuppie-sized bucks.

(I'd guess that most suppliers of model airplane kits have expired too - snap-together pre-assembled & painted toys now - add fuel, connect battery and 'fly'. Sometimes both supplied in the kit).

ie I dunno about EE (?) if the aim is to invoke, evoke - original thought (won't even bring in the 'digital' scopes again, aliasing) but add-in: the woeful ignorance of *analog* circuits, such as every digital pulse *also is*.

Sorry - I see 'homogenized' across the board, though just possibly overall - EE might yet provide a tad more variety, and remain difficult enough to exercise brain muscles.

A.