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Re: What does it take to be a good engineer?
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Originally Posted by jpetito
How many engineers do you know who can design and math you under the table, but can't wrench their way out of a wet paper bag? Or design elegant stuff that can't be built?
The practical application aspect of what we've labeled Engineering is hugely overlooked in the current environment. The theory, the academic, the theoretical must be hitched to experience with the Real Stuff in order to Make Things Work, and those we put on the design pedestal have to earn their keep so the welders and wrenchers and electricians and pneumaticists can build gear fitting their vision.
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Some. But I don't really care if the guy making the coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian model for my project can turn a wrench, I care that he understands the theory behind his work and will validate his model against emperical data.
We don't all have to be experts in practicality. What we all DO need are open and effective lines of communication and enough humility to listen and carefully consider criticisms to our work.
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Theory is a nice place, I'd like to go there one day, I hear everything works there.
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot, common sense is trying to not be an idiot, wisdom is knowing that you will still be an idiot.
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