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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.
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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
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