Saturday, April 28, 2012

Not enough Online Science and Technology Degrees

I don't think it an end of a journey when graduating from an online school in Project Management but it is the opening of new doors of perspective to the complex and science based world we live in today. I wish every high school student would have to take this type of class and be mandated to take classes from physics, chemistry, engineering, telecommunications, and finance as core curriculum due to the lack of scientific literacy in our country. There are millions of people who don't know what an ethernet, or protocols are. There are millions of computer users who have never taken a typing class and don't know how to type. Check out www.audible.com and/or amazon.com for the thousands of new books and audiobooks on areas of science and technological breakthroughs in various areas.
I wish more online schools would de-emphasis business and management and focus more on science and technology degrees. We have too many managers, too many with management degrees. This country needs more engineers and scientists. We restructure and add ten layers of management at companies to accompandate the millions of people who now have business and management degrees. Just as we had millions in the 80's graduate with law degrees which totally screwed up the legal system. Now we have millions with MBA's and management degrees. Where are the science degrees online?
How many MBAs have ever designed anything new and innovative or worked in medical, telecommunications, or any of the myriad of engineering fields such as : Bioengineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, chemical engineering, manufacturing engineering, civil engineering, biophysics, biotechnology, fuel cell, astrophysics, nuclear engineering.packaging engineering, molecular biophysics, molecular engineering, process engineering, manufacturing engineering, automotive engineering. Almost none of these are taught online by most online universities.
      There should be a ten year moratorium on law, business, and management degrees to mandate the teaching of the above degrees in science and technology which will bring great developments to improve the quality of life for billions of people around the world.