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From: Dale Rogers <dale.r@cox.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Engineers (was: Re: Nice Trip)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:44:36 -0400
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What Lynn said, plus:

   I don't have an engineering degree (neither did John 
Moses Browning.)  However, my title is "Field Engineer".  
That means that I'm often the person folks come to, crying, 
"make this thing _work_".  (Right, Rusty?)

   After 33 years, I've lost count of the times I've mumbled 
"what idiot designed *this*?"  I'm firmly convinced that there 
is a serious deficiency in the engineering curriculae of the 
U.S. universities.  Too many graduates go straight from college 
to a job designing devices that _other_ people will have to 
use and/or repair.  Were I "king-of-the-world", one of my 
first decrees would be that no person graduating from with 
an engineering degree would be allowed to practice their craft
until they'd served a "residency" (like physicians have to?)  - 
two years in a field service department - _then_ they'd be 
allowed to design for serious applications.

God bless those few engineers who came into the field with 
some practical experience under their belts.

Dale R.                       |      (___       |
COZY MkIV-R13B #1254          |----==(___)==----|     
Ch's 4, 5, 9, 16 & 23 in progress   o/ | \o
http://www.canardzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1388
(Cedat Fortuna Peritis)


On 2005/10/26 Wed AM 09:08:24 EDT Lynn Hanover <Lehanover@aol.com> wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 10/25/2005 3:49:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> jesse@jessfarr.com writes:
> 
>> BTW this chap is a Mechanical Engineer and  worked for many Aviation related 
>> companies. He is also doing his own  PSRU and is now complaining there is a 
>> difference between the Renesis  manual and the Auto gearbox bolt pattern and 
>> the manual pattern makes  this harder for him. 
> 
> One of my many jobs when working for Uncle Sam, was to explain systems to  
> Mechanical engineers. I decided that some schools give out degrees on request  
> with no other requirements at all. There were some very talented people also,  
> but hardly enough to give the impression that anything an engineer says 
> requires  less than a full review. 
>  
> I worked with three female Engineers, all making at least twice my salary,  
> and I was zero for three on teaching them anything. About the same score as all 
>  of their professors.
>  
> The above seems to be one of these people. 
>  
> My wife is/was a main frame system programmer, and used to build up race  
> engines, start to finish. I laid in the cranks was all. She does not like  
> rotaries. Too loud and not enough parts to be interesting.
>  
> God bless the few real engineers. 
>  
> Lynn E. Hanover