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¶ … Engineer
A popular joke posted on the flat hats of robed college graduates, listening to commencement speakers it the phrase -- 'will deconstruct for food.' In other words, now that this college graduate has a pricey liberal arts education that has taken him or her four years to obtain -- what does he or she do now? Also, last year, just "over half of all employers said they would raise starting salaries for new hires in the coming year. Those that do increase pay will make only modest adjustments, boosting salaries by 3.4% on average." (Geary, 2003) They have been studying for a professional occupation for their entire undergraduate lives for an education that will enable them to create more functional computer, electrical, and mechanical systems. These engineering undergraduates can walk away from their university education with a certainty that only professional graduates from medical or law schools can vouch, after far longer periods spent in school -- these engineers have the ability to enter a respectable profession with desirable and marketable technical skills.
The confusion expressed by such slogans as 'will deconstruct for food,' is often not reflective simply of what the graduate knows how to do -- he or she hopefully knows how to think and to engage in critical analysis, but what he or she wants to do with the rest of his or her vocational life. In other words, what skills does the graduate possess that are marketable and useful to society?
Engineers know what to do and how to do it and how to be useful to employers. Immediately upon graduation engineers enters a professional class of employment, with a degree that is marketable anywhere in the world the engineer may chose to move.
As an electrical engineer, who is from a…
Work Cited
Geary, Leslie Harris. (9 Dec. 2003) "Jobs for College Grads Rising." CNN.com. Money. Retrieved 29 Nov 2003 at http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/08/pf/jobs_collegians/
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