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Promotion at random is better! Tenure makes you more "incompetent" -- Peter's principle proved by two italian scientists!

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

If you are upset about promotion system, look at what two italian friends proved recently, which was immediately popular before the paper publication, also because they proved random promotion is more efficient!

Teaching Mechnical Engineering in iMechanica is an Engineering topic or an Education one, or even a Management Strategy

Submitted by shengke zhi on

To Henry and All,

To Henry and All,Regarding to Henry's distinguish idea about Teaching Mechanics in iMechanica, I am wondering is it an Mechanical topic or an Education one, or even a Management Strategy? The same phenomenon does not only exist in Mechanics education but also in all engineering fields.   

Why we struggle Engineering teaching?