Steve Gaunt Pontificates
The University Page
Reluctantly, it's time for me to have a go at one of my old schools,
The University of Huddersfield (I'll deal with Penistone Grammar
School later) from where I entered into my Degree in Electronic
and Information Engineering (Which is why you must all take my software
seriously) also I got a First which will make the following even
more incredulous.
So, what's the problem?
It's the University Notebook column in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
Not the content of the column itself you understand, that's fine
in as far as it goes.
The problem is more a matter of what is NOT included.
We get pieces by the Music Department.
Brilliant, Huddersfield has an excellent musical heritage, not just
the Messiah, and the Mrs Sunderland thingy, we have also produced
some fine contemporary musicians (some might call it no-account
pop music, I don't (but that is the subject of another Pontificates).
There are Pieces by the Maths Dept, the Chemistry Dept. again, quite
rightly, Huddersfield has in the past been at the forefront of development
in this field, I am thinking particularly of the advances in dyes
for our textile industry.
The now sadly much reduced Textile department has also contributed
to the Column.
There is however one department that has never contributed a single
word to this column and that is the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Why?
Well, if you ask a spokesman, I have no doubt that you will get
the following answer
"Electrical Engineering is hard, we don't have time for anything
as flippant as that" then they will return to their pint in
the staff bar no doubt.
What Rubbish!
Yes, Electrical Engineering is hard I can vouch for that (for the
students anyway).
Nevertheless, it should also have a voice i.e. at least let the
people of Huddersfield know that the Department exists.
We should remember that electronics engineers from the Huddersfield
area were responsible for some important advances in television
and radio and during the last World War the development of radar,
H B Reeder, L Butterworth, R N Fitton and F H Beaumont to name but
four. These gentlemen might be pleased to know that there local
university carries on introducing new engineers to the field they
helped to pioneer, what do you think?
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