MYERSTON@SRI-KL.ARPA (HECTOR MYERSTON) (08/14/86)
The number of colleges offering some sort of Telecom degree is
growing. Univ of Colorado at Boulder has had a program for quite a while
as does Golden Gate University in SF where I teach. A search of the
recent trades will reveal at least half a dozen more. Golden Gate offers
both an Undergraduate and a Graduate program.
Decision #1. What type of program? There are basically three
approaches: (1) EE level Telecom Engineering
(2) Hands-on Telecom Technology
(3) Telecom Management
Nr (1) produces Engineers who go into research and development and
are seldom heards from again (in the Telecom World).
Nr (2) produces Technicians who are now being called Service Engrs
or Service Managers. No glamor but they make around $40K in this area almost
right off the bat.
Nr (3) produces folks who (should) know how to manage systems with
out being tied by the minutae of cabling, levels etc
Golden Gate is Nr (3)
Question #2. There ARE quite a few good texts as well as some real
clinkers. James Martin has about a dozen on the market which seems to be
a ramdon scramble of the same paragraphs in each. Lee's ABC's of Tel-
communications is nice for anthropologist studying Stroeger Step-by-Step
switching and barbed wire ground-return loops. They were was last updated
after the big war, If a (management) book was written prior to 1985 it is
probably useless
+HECTOR+
-------rfh0023@wucec2.UUCP (Ramon Fernando Herrera) (08/22/86)
The September 1, 1985 issue of Datamation has an article: "Who's Teaching Telecom" by David Stamps.