Originally Posted by forgot to bid
You can graduate with an aviation degree without knowing what an Ops Specs is because not one class or one professor exposed the student to what it means to the carrier and it's pilots.
That's something myself and a few other alums have been fighting for with Purdue alumni - to have more real-world topics discussed in the new curriculum with students vs. 4 semesters worth of 727 systems classes that an airline would teach in 2 40-hour weeks.
I think a contributing factor to this is at many universities, faculty don't have much industry experience...
especially in the last 10-15 years. One reason for this is many universities want aviation faculty to have M.S. degrees if not Ph.Ds...and there simply aren't that many folks out there that have a strong professional/operational background with those academic credentials that want to teach.
And I think that goes for any degree vs the real field.
Yes, it does...