Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
apparently, it used to be typical for our MEs to take... 140 hours I think. They worked for 20 years to cut down the cirriculum to 128 or 120, and one of my professors like to ramble on and on about how they don't teach everything they shouuld, used to, etc. Except now they do again, beause he keeps adding classes and adding hours to existing classes. it's kinda odd. Anything to keep him from lecturing on vibrations, though. I don't fall asleep listening to intra-staff politix ;D
UMD's Aero program has been trying to get their credits down to 120 from 128 for a long time, and they still haven't done it. Of course, this is the same university that thinks that their courseload can be reasonably done by most people in four years, as opposed to five.

It can't (or rather I should say, it is wildly difficult for most, it certainly is with our declining funding).