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I suggest you complain to your department about the faculty quality then, because you are describing a level of discontent well beyond my experience. I have had bad professors, certainly, but they have been the exception, not the rule. Either you have an unusually bad group of professors or else the problem is not with them.</p>
<p>Are you by any chance at ITT Tech?</p>
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You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of both these groups. I work for a government contractor AND am in grad school at a public university. I work with both groups and they are nothing alike.</p>
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Getting that job security generally requires ~15 years of constant academic and then professional excellence, and not many put on the brakes once they get tenure. Some do, but not most. And the point of tenure is specifically to let them “get away with things that they would never get away with in the private sector” because that way you get a different set of results. They research things that are not profitable, or that will take too long to generate profits for there to be corporate interest, or that are too risky for corporations to touch. And the results have been astounding.</p>
<p>I have been working as an engineer professionally for most of a decade at this point, the majority of it spend doing corporate-side research, and I really have no idea where you are getting your ideas about how industry feels about academia.</p>
<p>By the way, I find the following interesting:</p>
<p>(1) Having declared that you are done with this discussion, you have returned only to restate the disdain you have already made abundantly clear.</p>
<p>(2) In other threads you seem to indicate that you consider an engineering degree valuable and worthwhile, while in this thread you show ample disdain for the methods by which they are awarded. I am curious as to your career aspirations - technical sales? Financial engineering? Dreams of management? I would be quite amused if you actually aspired to a technical position.</p>