The news of Musk's election as a member of the American Academy of Engineering has not gone away. According to the normal process, it is not surprising that on October 2, 2022, Musk will officially become a member of the American Academy of Engineering.
I remembered a paragraph from a netizen who complained about the Academician of Chinese Baijiu before,
The United States is a meritocracy, and when China becomes an academician, it must be a meritocracy.
The academician who studies baijiu can at least be associated with microbial engineering academically, and there are also papers in many core journals.
But musk, an entrepreneur with a bachelor's degree and dropped out of school in the middle, why can he be elected a big man in academia?
Some netizens said that just by relying on the use of rocket recovery technology by other companies, the launch cost of the rocket can be saved by 10% compared with the past, about 6 million US dollars.
It can be said that Musk's SpaceX is currently the only company in the world that safely and completely recycles the launch vehicle.
There is also a continuation that Musk's Raptor engine Bull Break, which is currently the most thrust engine. If the earth wants to wander in the universe in the future, it will have to rely on this thing.
In other words, it is because of Musk's SpaceX that he deserves to be elected as a member of the American Academy of Engineering.
But they all seem to forget that Musk, the world's richest man, is actually a marketing guru himself, not a tech guru. Although he gave himself the title of chief engineer, it could not change the fact that he was not technical or academic.
Well, a very important reason why Musk was elected as an academician is the capital behind it and the social contributions made by his company.
There are also netizens in short, because in the United States, capital is above academics and institutions.
Therefore, some people are dismissive of Musk's election to the Us Academy of Engineering, believing that this is just a game of money and relationships.
Some people even lament that this seems to be a tool of capital in the American academic community today.
The selection of academicians in China is different, people-centered, and only those scientists and technicians who have made contributions to the people in a down-to-earth manner can be elected academicians.
Here, first of all, we will not talk about the differences between the two countries in the selection of academicians. From the perspective of contribution, taking the people as the center and making great contributions to society is actually just a repetition of the same meaning.
After all, the people themselves are part of the social fabric, and the separate expressions seem to be a bit pretentious.
In fact, for a long time in the past, the group of academicians selected in China was indeed the group of scientists and technicians themselves.
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However, with the development of China's economy, considering the needs of industrial development and upgrading, as well as the significance of the overall social development, in the new "Articles of Association of the Chinese Academy of Engineering", there are special provisions on enterprise talents.
From the above description, we can see that in fact, a very important point in the selection criteria of academicians is that the selectee himself is also an expert in engineering science and technology.
If this criterion is followed, Musk also has a chance to be selected in China, because Musk has the title of chief engineer.
It's just that in China, if such enterprise talents are rated as academicians, most people will not buy it. Because it's easy to think about the capital manipulation problem behind it.
Previously, Alibaba was elected as an academician by Wang Jian, which caused some people to question. This is also why the original candidacy of baijiu academicians made many people dissatisfied.
This is both a problem of our people's perception and the confusion caused by the design of the top-level architecture in the first place.