ing the work opportunities out as "outsourced" temporary tech workers, these companies are denying smaller local firms, many in the start-up stage, and in actual need of talent, from using the H-1B system for its original purpose.
We need to do both, clean up the visa system and reassess the quota. Here's a link to what the Economist has to say about this year's H-1B visa blowout.
For a clear idea about why we even need to be discussing visas for STEM related work, take a look at what our fellow Tech Hui blogger, Joseph Lui, has to say about the deficit in the home-grown STEM pipeline.…
is actually the mandatory advising. I was a little lost when I first transferred to UH Manoa and my adviser was extremely helpful and is the reason I'm taking this class.
2. There are a lot of clubs for women in STEM fields and they provide a lot of support and opportunities.
3. UH provides a lot of opportunities (like a career fair especially for STEM) for our program.…
Hong Kong University team develops new method eliminating risk of rejection - Stem cell breakthrough holds potential to treat organ disease. http://www.hkchcc.org/hongkong-china.htm
for the HITX events page we can easily display it in this group for coverage of all Big Island STEM events, and then you can post the featured events in the general Events area as you currently do (and we will continue to feature them.) There are some people on Oahu who occasionally hop over to the Big Island and Maui for interesting tech events. Mika and I have been known to do that :-)…
pportunities for high salary jobs after you get a degree in ICS than a lot of other majors.
3. As an international student, a STEM major student has a longer work authorization period after graduating than other non-STEM major students. …
capt jeff shattuck: sorry to play catchup- stem meaning sci, tech, eng, math?
Correct. You will also sometimes see STEAM, which is Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math.
erience, which may or may not be representative, there are a lot of cultural flaws in STEM educational culture. The courses I enjoyed were great, but many were taught in a style where if you didn't understand something, well too bad I guess you're not smart enough to be here.
The result is what matches the workforce pretty well. A lot of trained but frankly mediocre engineers who lack creative abilities since it's been discouraged. Maybe it's changed in the past 10 years and I know it's not like this everywhere, but the assembly line approach I've witnessed heavily discourages many who otherwise would do well. A culture dominated by disapproval for liberal arts and studies that are seen as irrelevant rather than evaluated by how they can come together. STEM needs to be interdisciplinary if it is to succeed. Music and EE? Art and math? Sure why not. Core skills are important but look at how we actually use technology. Algorithms and structures are not for their own sake. I'm all for pure research, but I also see how math culture influences STEM education too heavily. I love math and still like many aspects of discrete math to this day while my disinterest for calculus is just as strong. Understanding the fundamentals is key, but there's a lot more to it than that. The philosophy, art, literature and history classes I took were more engaging than the typical structures and algorithms course. The funny part is I really like data structures but the teaching methods frankly sucked.
I think a big root cause is the whole tenure system. Many of these professors have no interest in teaching and need to go. Get people in there who want to educate, and are not just showing up for the lectures their dept head requires of them.
- bri…