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Originally Posted by Jim Sims
"He said it's one of the only majors of it's type that has gone 100 years without any changes to it's core curriculum."
I think your Prof needs to do some additional research.
Ask him if he thinks they were teaching gas dynamics (compressible flow - jet engines, rocket engines, shock tubes, etc.) in 1908. I also doubt there was much discussion of finite difference, finite element and other numerical methods (Runge-Kutta, etc.) in 1908. They couldn't have discussed a Thevenin equivalent as it wasn't even in use by the EE's in 1908. All of these were part of the core ME curriculum at NMSU in 1975-1977. Some of the core curriculum better not change or one will be graduating some sorry mechanical engineers. However I agree the curriculum will likely need to extend to five years of courses; MIT has sort of done this to put some of the hardware and hands-on design courses back into the education of their engineers. I believe they then graduate them with a master's degree.
Jim Sims, BSME, NMSU 1977
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I think what he was trying to say is that the base hasn't changed (x amount of credits stuffed into 4 years), what your talking about is the technical advancements. I assume what he was getting to is that we need to add more to the core curriculum of a base engineering degree. I say this because i get the feeling sometimes that they are trying to stuff too much material into a 4 year BS, sometimes it seems like there are topics that get rushed through but deserved more time than they got.