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I agree with this for the most part. I know that the UK system is like this. On the other hand, I've talked to UK professors who acknowledge it as a limitation because one cannot easily draw from an interdisciplinary knowledge set. Innovation and inspiration come from a lot of different places.Man you picked the worst possible example.If you ever want to do anything on the cutting edge you need the physics/chemistry/material sci background. Remember that all engineering is just an abstraction from physics to make the problems tractable. This is perfectly fine when we are dealing with macroscopic black boxes (i.e., this is a resistor, this is an engine), but technology is getting to small enough scales that anyone who works at the cutting edge cannot afford to ignore these fields. And as I alluded to before, many of the top institutions train innovators/researchers.The converse is also true - physics is getting to the point where one cannot ignore technology. Many of the most interesting problems are not analytically tractable and require numerical methods, other interesting problems require massive computing power to deal with the data flow. LHC scientists I believe set data throughput world records. I wonder if their physics background had anything to do with that....
I agree with this for the most part. I know that the UK system is like this. On the other hand, I've talked to UK professors who acknowledge it as a limitation because one cannot easily draw from an interdisciplinary knowledge set. Innovation and inspiration come from a lot of different places.
Man you picked the worst possible example.
If you ever want to do anything on the cutting edge you need the physics/chemistry/material sci background. Remember that all engineering is just an abstraction from physics to make the problems tractable. This is perfectly fine when we are dealing with macroscopic black boxes (i.e., this is a resistor, this is an engine), but technology is getting to small enough scales that anyone who works at the cutting edge cannot afford to ignore these fields. And as I alluded to before, many of the top institutions train innovators/researchers.
The converse is also true - physics is getting to the point where one cannot ignore technology. Many of the most interesting problems are not analytically tractable and require numerical methods, other interesting problems require massive computing power to deal with the data flow. LHC scientists I believe set data throughput world records. I wonder if their physics background had anything to do with that....
