The Chonicle of Higher Education Headlines: The STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth? But…

Doesn’t it depend on whether you mean too many STEM grads or too many grads with STEM education.  The article talks about an Ohio State grad having trouble finding a job but I find that it may be that Ohio State students are having trouble finding an education.  I don’t know for sure but here is what I wrote.  (followed by a link to the article.)

“The only problem with any analysis of STEM education is that a STEM degree doesn’t equal a STEM education. Something that this article does make clear is that there are many reasons why universities may want to claim they are doing a good job educating STEM majors. From my own anecdotal experience, and everything I read, I doubt that even a majority of STEM majors are getting a good education.

Addendum: This article mentions a graduate from Ohio State. I wondered what kind of job Ohio State is doing. (I’m not talking about football.) I looked at a final exam in Calculus I. (You can find it here, http://www.math.osu.edu/course… Problem 2 asks them to use the definition of a derivative to find f'(2) where f(x)=3x^2-4x+5. Then it GIVES them the definition of a derivative. I worked for many years as an engineer. I would be leery about hiring anyone from a program that expected its students would not know, by the final, something as fundamental as the definition of a derivative. I feel bad for the students in that program.”

Link http://chronicle.com/article/The-STEM-Crisis-Reality-or/142879/