> Do you really think that the university is going to be the bottleneck?

Yes. I think American society will struggle to produce enough competent electrical engineers outside of the university system.

> there's going to be some big reorganization to reflect the fact that you can now learn just as well OUTSIDE of a university context

In my experience, very few people like learning the math needed to be competent at RF. It’s hard and exhausting and without a human connection most people are going to bounce. This isn’t like software where if you get it 80% right something still occurs.

I’ve worked with homeschoolers too, and unless they’re the small fraction of people for whom math comes naturally, they’re not going to study it on their own. But that’s exactly the audience one has to reach to grow the EE supply.