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Please let me know if something is completely wrong and so I'll revert it.
Feel free to fork and modify! :) I'd be happy to include any decent contribution that makes better resumes.
Peer reviewers traditionally have 5 main rules to follow when reviewing papers and one of them is "Fairness" which essentially states: "Avoid biases based on gender, institution affiliation, nationality, and career status."
Interesting to finally have proof that this doesn't only apply to academia but also to "real-life" engineering and that people discriminate no matter what.
Considering that the definition of engineering is: "The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems" — I can't even imagine why one wouldn't have the right to do "engineering" studies.
I digress, my point is made and I'm sad to still see such reaction to well put studies—Assuming it was well put [1]
[1] David M. Cox — PhD: http://bit.ly/hyf5Lj The aforementioned assumption is made based on the academic knowledge of Dr. Cox and that he would know how to make a study and make an elaborated point explained in details.
[2] American Scientist — Volume 99 — Number 1 — January-February 2011