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I am certainly better than I used to be...
Posted by Joe Johnson, Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 5/18/99 6:28 PM MST
In Reply to: FIRST = Employee Training, Anybody tried it??? posted by ComBBAT Veteran on 5/17/99 8:22 PM MST:
The idea that FIRST good training for engineers is much more than a nice sounding blurb in a FIRST brochure.
For most big organizations, an engineering project has a life cycle of years not weeks.
FIRST is one of the best places I know of to sharpen engineering skills. Coming up with workable solutions to problems under pressure cooker situations is a very valuable skill for engineers in an organization to have.
Perhaps I live in a different world than most, but in the Delphi Interior Systems' Advanced Development Group, my job has practically become like one FIRST project after another ('We need that design yesterday or we will miss our ship date').
By the way, has anyone noticed how many key team members from FIRST teams get promoted on to new positions?
I don't think that it is just a matter of these folks getting a lot of good will from volunteering with a bunch of worthy kids. I think that the FIRST process has helped them to become better at their day jobs.
I know that I am a better engineer because of the experience that FIRST has given me. I have seen the same thing in many of the members of our team.
Joe J.
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