If you could provide contact information about your school, I'm sure that a few of us on this listserve that work in metricated industries would be happy to write a quick letter to school administration. Universities are somewhat attentive to input received from industry, as to what things should be expected from graduates to be successful in their jobs after graduation, and how competitive their graduates would be in today's market place.
Working in the biotech/piopharmaceutical industry, I can say that graduates would need to have a good understanding of the metric system in order to be successful since we use ONLY the metric system. This is true whether you are in the lab, purchasing, manufacturing, or IT. If your university hopes to graduate students with skills relevant to the 21st century's hottest job growth areas, they need to train students to be comfortable working with the metric system EXCLUSIVELY. I know that as a manager, I could not in good conscience hire someone that can not work or will not work in metric EXCLUSIVELY. Scott On Wednesday, March 07, 2007, at 09:06AM, "Mike Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree with you but sadly the number of people who don't know their body >mass in kilograms in the US is in the overwhelming majority. Most states at >least teach SI but mine is famous for having an aversion to it which >apparently extends into the higher academic professions. > >Mike > >On 3/7/07, Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> To give them a frame of reference, you could say "I'm 63 kg, so I would >> take >> 1.26 grams" (or whatever the numbers are). >> >> I suggest you complain to the professor's boss about her. Anyone who does >> not >> know his body mass in kilograms (if he knows it at all) or the number of >> milligrams in a kilogram is seriously behind the times. I was 36 kg >> sometime >> in the 70s and I have never known my weight in any other unit. >> >> phma >> >> > > >-- >"The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?" >
