Sounds good. Companies should hire engineers with experience. They are needed; and just the people who will be able to understand the capabilities of new engineers in employment interviews, what assignments they can handle from the start, and how to cultivate their knowledge and skills to take them to a higher level. Companies that think all engineers are or should be equally replaceable with any other and do not build and maintain an effective hierarchy of engineering experience, just aren’t doing it right.
Graduating from school is not the end of engineering education (which is really a life-long endeavor). It’s a place to learn the basics. There is no avoiding the fact that one becomes a real engineer via apprenticeship and experience. The education system should not react so easily when faced with poor thinking about engineering education from companies; but instead focus on preparing engineers for a long career.
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