[SuperJake]

So here is my two cents:

I am a Mechanical Engineer - graduated from Drexel University with my BS. I was recruited by Foster-Miller though a connection my Senior Design adviser had. Now I work on the TALON family of robots in the Future Robotics team. I do everything from field and production support to designing the next-generation robots. I chose mechanical because I really like figuring out how things work together. I like to be able to see things, hold them in my hand, and demonstrate how they work. It is this logical thinking that gives me the ability to understand computer logic, but I can't for the life of me learn how to talk computer. As far as I can concerned: as long as the magic smoke stays inside the electronics, my job is done. My day is just like any other typical engineer, but since I don't smoke, I spend my "smoke breaks" driving robots over our obstacle courses.

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So in casual conversation, one of my co-workers and I were talking about book smarts compared to engineering common sense. He said something that I thought interesting: "If you ask someone with a lot of book smarts how to solve a problem, you're probably going to get an answer that looks like the one in the book." Take from that what you will.
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