I havent learned anything in college so far ( EE Junior)

purduefrank
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:40:51 +0000

Despite what most people will lead you to believe, I personally don’t think you’re going to learn a whole lot of practical things in undergrad engineering. The aim is to give you a basic understanding of the concepts and theories that are used – and, in my opinion, to see if you can make it through the classes.

Even in the senior level design classes you will most likely follow near the coattails of your professor, or a pretty standard and basic design that has well documented instructions which you might add a few tweaks to. Much of what you will ever actually use will be learned on the job - and in many cases this probably doesn’t require(from a learning perspective) an engineering degree. I look at it as a right of passage, more or less…

I don’t think you’re alone in the way you feel.