Hi everyone,
I was just wondering about the real contribution of researchers in engineering fields in the economical progress of their countries. I am talking here specifically about researchers in 3rd world countries.
To my knowledge, a researcher is also a professor, so he teachers students and also publishes articles. The problem is that most of those articles in 3rd world countries aren't used in industry ( because 3rd world countries have no industry).
Moreover, any research financed by a company can't be published.
So in the academic field we just publish to get higher rank and then when we become professors, we publish to publish and we teach students to become professors to publish and the loop goes on.
If you tell me professors in university we form good engineers, i would tell you that i doubt it's true. Because professors don't have that much knowledge in the experimental/practical field. I mean, they are more into theory. And to form an engineer, it takes more than being good only with theory.
I hope my point is clear, and i would like to know your opinions.
I was just wondering about the real contribution of researchers in engineering fields in the economical progress of their countries. I am talking here specifically about researchers in 3rd world countries.
To my knowledge, a researcher is also a professor, so he teachers students and also publishes articles. The problem is that most of those articles in 3rd world countries aren't used in industry ( because 3rd world countries have no industry).
Moreover, any research financed by a company can't be published.
So in the academic field we just publish to get higher rank and then when we become professors, we publish to publish and we teach students to become professors to publish and the loop goes on.
If you tell me professors in university we form good engineers, i would tell you that i doubt it's true. Because professors don't have that much knowledge in the experimental/practical field. I mean, they are more into theory. And to form an engineer, it takes more than being good only with theory.
I hope my point is clear, and i would like to know your opinions.