Yale Launches Expansion of the Department of Computer Science

Post by _delirium » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 9:29 PM UTC

eugenejen wrote: post #8

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(full disclosure: I'm a Yale EE grad working as a software engineer for the last 17 years in the valley). The school has had an ambivalent relationship with applied sciences through its history. They considered closing the engineering departments in the early 90's when I was a student. I am glad to see the school investing in this area, even if it less out of intrinsic interest and more out of market demand and perce…

It is the same as NYU did in 70s. But now NYU merge NYU-Poly as its school of engineering. I am always amazed at what criteria are used by school administrators to decide which departments to fund. It is very surprised to me as a foreigner born that U.S. doesn't need engineers from Ivy League....

Post by kelukelugames » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 9:40 PM UTC

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Ivy League schools breed leaders not us over paid worker bees. Only engineers complain about working under non-engineers. Lawyers at law firms don't have that problem.

As a senior at Yale right now, and seeing what most of my fellow students are going into next year, the Ivy League is great at pumping out over paid worker bees. See here http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/02/13/finance-continues-t... for the numbers going into finance (~20%) and just anecdotally I would guess there are only slightly less going into consulting. Finally, there are a not insignificant number (maybe 10%…

Post by praneshp » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 10:29 PM UTC

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Post by munin » Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 11:51 PM UTC

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dsg42 wrote: post #11

This was overdue, but definitely a good announcement. For people who think this is absurdly slow, I would point out that undergraduate enrollment in the department has grown 5-10x in the last four years. In 2011, I was in a four person class with a professor and a TA, and some core classes had <20 students. Now those same classes have well over 100 students. Top tier universities just can't react and find talented fa…

Top tier universities just can't react and find talented faculty that quickly. In a sense I think this is right—they can't, right now—but in another sense I think slow reaction times are a choice: they can react much faster but choose, for cultural and bureaucratic reasons, not to. I'd also like to see universities move away from tenure-based hiring and towards long-term-contract-based hiring that effectively rewards…

Post by kelukelugames » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:43 AM UTC

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That's true. Consultants and bankers are also overpaid worker bees. Edit: but at least they report to other consultants and bankers.

I graduated from Harvard, and like chris_b said with Yale, a not insignificant number of people went into some sort of engineering. It's not the plurality career choice, but it's not like the field is some sort of pariah at Ivy League schools.