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Not just accessible but relevant. Engineering has a natural advantage in that tech produces artifacts you can use whether or not you understand how they work. I don’t need you to study navier stokes equations before complaining about airlines. The airplane itself is “relevance”
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I definitely have a soft spot for semi-outsider types who pwn a discourse claimed by an academic field... like Christopher Alexander and Buckminster Fuller in architecture :D I think it's a key check and balance to fields achieving regulatory capture on public-interest domains
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Do "media scholars" ever also have a working background in media itself? It's a bit unfair to expect in some ways, but also not entirely unreasonable. If you study virality maybe you should have one viral tweet before you get your PhD
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I was mechE undergrad and we had to design/build a few things. Aero undergrads had to do a glider flight. Grad, I was aero and taught a lab that included stuff like wind tunnel tests. There were a couple of drone projects but they were super expensive then.
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Today if I were running an aero program I’d definitely have a drone requirement. They’re so cheap to build now. Rockets are cheaper to do but run into regulatory shit for the truly cool stuff like remote guidance. Most engineering except chemical has cheap hobby/ed versions.
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