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Definition of an Engineer
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Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Mass Academy of Math and Science and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Posted on 3/22/2000 5:10 PM MST


In Reply to: #2 FIRST does not make students engineers posted by Joe Johnson on 3/20/2000 9:24 PM MST:



engineer n 1: a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

I'll mostly agree with you.. It's just the title of your post that I'll disagree with.. I believe that participants in the FIRST competition are engineers.. No matter how far they've come in school.. The difference is that not everyone is on the same level of being an engineer.. Those who have degrees in engineering are obviously on a higher level than those that are in high school.. Everyone that does FIRST solves problems in a usually pratical manner..

I'll even call my camp kids engineers.. I had them for camp over the summer for the Lego Mindstorms camp at FIRST.. They solved the problem basically on their own.. Just with a little bit of mentoring and guidance.. There are different levels of engineering.. Because if there wasn't, then you would go from being nothing so suddenly being an engineer.. And that isn't the case.. It takes time and practice.. But some of that engineering magic is even found in the young kids..

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