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Do Romantic Thoughts Reduce Women’s Interest in Engineering?

27th Aug 2011 47 3 News Clips

If romance reduce girls’ pursuit in engineering, probably the reverse is also true that girls choose engineering have less interest in romance as well. They should do a follow up research and survey a large sample of engineering girls,… [...]

Automation without abstraction is like a bicycle without pedals

30th Nov 2010 10 0 News Clips

Automation is just transforming information from one format to another format, it won’t make the information any easier to work with. Abstraction drops irrelevant information and keeping only the useful information at the right… [...]

The engineering gap

1st Feb 2010 30 0 News Clips

My experience agrees with the articles that many Indian engineers are not as good as they claim to be. But I don’t think a new standardize test will solve the problem. The test only would work until some PREP school cracked the marking scheme… [...]

How to explain what is computer engineering to 7th grade

27th May 2009 124 1 Daily Scribble

My friend is an elementary school teacher. Her grade 7 class is having career day to understand different kinds of jobs and she asked me as a guest speaker. I am a toastmaster, so I thought how hard can it be to speak in front of 20 kids. I was wrong.… [...]

Dropping standard

8th Sep 2008 33 3 Daily Scribble

Every four moths, new co-op shows up in our company.  I don’t know whether is that I am getting old or it is really a fact.  I found that the standard of engineering students are getting worse and worse. The first clue is the minimum grade… [...]