| I don't feel the bachelor's degree covers everything you need to know to start off as an engineer. My undergrad institution actually pretty much squeezed 1/2 a master's degree into our bachelor's degree; instead of requiring the standard 120 credits, I needed 135 credits to graduate. And you know what? It's still not enough to be honest. There were a few big topics on the discipline-specific section of the FE exam which we did not cover (though we were good for general section). I'm at a different institution now for a MS, and I look at their undergrad curriculum and I see the same problems.
There's really nobody to blame though because I couldn't really say that one course could be replaced by another in the curriculum and students would be better off. It's just simply too much to squeeze into 8 semesters. The engineering world won't fall apart if the educational requirements aren't changed, but it will certainly benefit if they do. |