My son is looking into studying engineering at LeTourneau University in Longview, TX, where we visited and took the tour.

What impressed me on my visit was when the tour guide showed us the machine and welding shop which all entering freshman take their first class. He made the same point you've made. The conclusion of the tour were the senior projects--race cars, artificial limbs, robots, and stuff like that--that the students designed, built and used.

In contrast, most of the big state school engineering curricula look like just a series of math problems and schematics.

Barry Gardner
Wheaton, IL

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

What Lynn said, plus:

   I don't have an engineering degree (neither did John 
Moses Browning.) <snip>
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
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(Cedat Fortuna Peritis)

Dale,

I spent 6 years in the machine shop before becoming an engineer. 

It was the best thing I could have done. If you have ever been 

on the recieveing end of one of those designs you have a 

completely different attitude!

Bill Jepson