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Posted by Joe Johnson at 05/10/2001 10:53 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: Re: shafts, gears and wheels....
Posted by Ken Patton on 05/10/2001 9:19 PM EST:



Intellectually, I know that a well designed square hole
and shaft pair can work just fine.

But...

Emotionally, I just can't get past the feeling that
spinning things aught to be roundish.

Since, for me at least, engineering is primarily an
emotion driven experience, I am sticking to my beloved
double d solution.

Also, I have always been able to make
them work well for me, so why change now?

Joe J.

P.S. I am not kidding when I say that engineering is
primarily an emotion driven activity for me. It is the
emotional part of my brain that tells me when the
direction I am going is a good one or not. I credit my
emotional thinking with nearly every innovative design
I have ever come up with.

Of course, the intellectual part of my brain does the
detail work much later but typically this is well after
my emotions are sure of the right path: Either I love
this new idea of mine and I will stick with it through
thick and thin or I despise that frumpy tart of an idea
and I am going to chase after that sexy new number I
caught a glimps of a few moments ago ;-)

Many of the creative engineers I admire have similar
approaches to engineering though perhaps they don't
express it in quite the same terms as I do. JJ