DL Engineering Degree

Europeans have a lot of misconceptions about the USA, but the reverse is also true. One interesting set of observations about the differences between USA and Germany (close enough to the Netherlands...) are found at: www-math.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/us-d.html. See especially the comparisons of education systems. Among the author's other observations are the following:

*In the US, foods are often served in a way which makes it impossible to eat them in a civilized manner, for instance tremendously huge hamburgers or too long French fries.

*Soccer is seen as a men's sport in Germany and as a women's sport in the US.

*German dog owners almost never collect their dog's feces. In the US, most cities require this and most dog owners do it.

*Waiters in US restaurants have a habit of coming to your table while you are eating or while you are talking, interrupt you and ask "Is everything OK?". Sometimes they even try to start a fake conversation.

*Cheerleaders, high school girls cheering and dancing in short dresses for the boys' sport teams, actually do exist in the US. I had always thought they only exist on TV. But no: girls actually do want to be cheerleaders.

*not uncommon to see a seventy-year-old American in shorts, sneakers, t-shirt and base ball cap; this is unthinkable in Germany.

*In the US, you often see cars without plates, and no one seems to care much.

*The word "rape" is used in a much broader sense than the common German dictionary translation "Vergewaltigung". The latter means "using physical force to achieve intercourse", while "rape" is nowadays often used in America in the sense of "an unpleasant sexual experience that was later regretted by one party".

 

Ha! I feel way more confy in the states.

One word of caution though, don´t you ever tell Dutch people they are German. That is so insulting for them The only worse thing you can call them is French

 

Is there any linguistic, biological, or historical connection between the Dutch and the Germans (i.e., Deutsch)?

 

Yes, there is...

The Netherlands (and parts of Belgium) were originally a part of the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation".

The English word "Dutch" originally referred to all people speaking a West Germanic language on the European mainland. That's why the Pennsylvania Dutch are called Dutch. They are actually descendants of German speaking immigrants who came to Pennsylvania in the early 1700's. The German word for German (Deutsch) has the same linguistic roots like the English word Dutch.

Dutch is a Germanic language, and within this family it is a West Germanic language. Since it did not experience the High German consonant shift, it is a Low Germanic language, and it is most closely related to the Low German dialects of German. There was in fact a dialect continuum which blurred any clear boundary between Dutch and Low German, in some minute areas there are still tiny dialect continuums but they continue to go extinct. The Low Franconian rural dialects of the Lower Rhine area in Germany are much closer related to Dutch than to standard German. Dividing the West Germanic languages into low and high in this way, however, obscures the fact that modern Dutch is more closely related to modern standard (high) German than to modern English.

mintaru

 

Also this little incident 65 years ago that tends to stick in Dutch people´s minds.

Not true. It is forgotten. Just joking

 

American education and innovation

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What's killing American competitiveness? Too much money, says VC
June 8, 2006 2:36 PM PDT
We're all aware by now that the American educational system is in a state of serious decline, but we face another problem too: Wall Street pays people too much.

Too many U.S. college students are being pulled away into management, hedge funds and other similar jobs where the main function is servicing someone else's legacy, according to David Strohm, general partner at Greylock, at the Venture Capital Investing Conference taking place in San Francisco.

Engineering and science students still seem to have start-up fever. But outside of those departments, which are seeing declining enrollments, most students seem content to work for the man rather than kick off a new venture.

"In the vast majority of companies I look at today, the leaders are Israelis, Indians, Chinese, Finns, Danes. They aren't coming out of the American culture," he said. "Liquidity is a major problem."

An excess of money can kill start-ups too, he added. "When you put $7 million into a company that could have been started with $2 million, you've got problems. The first step they do is hire three to four headhunting firms who hire too many overpriced executives."

Granted, one could say that's a great opinion for David to have. He's likely made quite a bit of money as a venture capitalist for more than two decades.

But think of it this way. When was the last time you met a Wall Street analyst, or a VP of marketing and thought, "You can just tell from his sparkling intelligence that he's worth every penny of that high six figure salary."

Posted by Michael Kanellos

 

IS a Double EE degree from Cooks Institute of Electronics Engineeriing

http://www.cooks.edu/index.php?&MMN_position=1:1

accredit by

(National Association of Private, Nontraditional Schools and Colleges)

http://www.napnsc.org

worth more than a DETC accedit EET
from schools such as

World College: http://www.worldcollege.edu

and
Grantham University
http://www.grantham.edu

 

Cooks Institute also runs a Computer Dating Service. What does that tell you ? Cook's marketing is more than a bit sleazy in my view. NAPNSC is rated by Bear as "sincere" but rejected for recognition under GAAP.

In my view, DETC accreditation is already marginal compared to TAC/ABET or NAIT - but a big step up from NAPNSC. Also, BSET/BEET by DL has more credibility than BSEE by DL (with the one exception of North Dakota State U). A BSET from Grantham may get you into MSET graduate school. A BSEE from Cooks will just get you laughed at.

I looked at the Grantham BSET some years ago. It's actually not that bad in terms of content. Not as good as an TAC/ABET or NAIT-accredited Electronics Technology program, but maybe acceptable to some employers. Many employers definitely look for TAC/ABET accreditation. Some knowledgeable employers also accept NAIT accreditation, but for other emplyers NAIT accreditation is still not as prestigious as TAC/ABET.