It's interesting that you should bring up professional accreditation. Many schools are accredited, but there is another level..... The national exams for a person to be an professional engineer - a PE - are still a true test of ability. That will be slower to change. Professional tests are heavy into theory, math, and hand-worked solutions. So far I can't see that a computer technology based education stands a chance of teaching the depth of knowledge required to pass those professional tests. And if someone can, then good for them.
And frankly most of what is now seen as engineering work doesn't require that level of expertise. All it needs is a good background in basic science and a good modeling program. The good modeling programs give the modeler control over the materials and geometry while the program does all the calculations of things like current flow and interacting fields - and automatically includes the higher education stuff like eddy currents and edge effects that used to be mind-numbing to calculate. That's been a game-changer.
I'm guessing we will see engineering break into different levels much like the medical profession has done recently.
Roger L.
From: Myles Twete
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 11:51 AMSubject: RE: [Electric Boats] Magnetic Circuits & The Prototype MotorsSo it's both: The educational system moving away from student/instructor interactions combined with the student's unwillingness to put in enough time to be sure to learn the fundamentals. And given that online courses allow students to submit all work electronically, there's absolutely no assurance that the student did ANY OF THE WORK that was submitted. Accreditation organizations should pay attention to this...M T
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