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Re: Lets keep politics out of Lego
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:53:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > > Sorry Scott but even I started to be interested in..:-) Really, what is
> > > > your area of PhD?..:-)
> > > >
> > > > Selçuk
> > >
> > > Well, I just ran a scan on all of Lugnet, using PhD as the search term, and
> > > there's no post from Scott saying what his doctorate is in. I also tried
> > > just searching debate and using Doctor, again, nothing relevant, then I
> > > tried Doctor and Arthur, again nothing. Using Doctor with no restrictor
> > > gives too many posts to reasonably search.
> >
> >
> > OK Larry, I shall give you a silver star for trying. The key word to search
> > for, I suppose, is "doctorate". It would have revealed:
> >
> > (BTW - EPSRC funded my doctorate at a cost of, in today’s $, $200,000 over
> > 3 years. This focused on defining how certain gross pollutants moved from
> > sewers to watercourses during wet weather.) - I have corrected my own poor
> > grammar. The value is actually UKP not US$.
> >
> > No big deal.
> >
> > The subject matter, strictly speaking, is civil engineering - this is the
> > subject of both my undergraduate degrees (ordinary and honours). Rigth now,
> > I've just started on a 2 year PG Dip.
>
> So what, exactly then, is your doctorate in? Undifferentiated Civil
> Engineering, or some subspecialty?
The way the UK system works means that a PhD means one researches a very
narrow field - a doctorate in "Computer Science" just does not exist here.
> In the US there often (but not always) is
> differentiation within the degree. For instance my BS is in Computer Science
> with a minor in Computer Electronics...
The main difference between the UK and USA is that here we have no real
taught component (in the US, I think, the whole 1st year is taught) - we are
the “masters of our own learning”. In the UK PhDs are defined, amongst peers
at least, by title - not really subject.
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> (the topic of one's research often but not always relates to the
> subspecialty of the degree, if any. Does it in your case?)
Yes.
Scott A
>
> ++Lar
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