Engineering Festival Gives Glimpse of the Future

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Kids are naturally attracted to science but the math scares them away. The question for this 21st century institution: why do university engineering programs still torture budding scientists with calculus when my computer here can do more math in one minute than tomorrow's engineer will do in a lifetime?

Price of WV 10:16PM April 27, 2012

just as soon as they start paying the guys with a science degree, what they are worth, there will oodles of them.....the average salary of a new grad out of Cal Tech is $67,000! An acquaintance who works for FedEx, as a driver, is making $100,000

Stob50 of NJ 6:04PM April 27, 2012

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