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Re: pic: 100% Student Built
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Originally Posted by David Kelly
I'm sorry but real engineers that work at big manufacturing corporations harldy if ever get to touch a machine. All most of them do is draw and plan out everything for a part and/ or a system. They leave the actual machining to the union and blue collar workers.
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If most people only knew how true this is for most industries. In a modern Big 3 assembly plant, an can design, program and debug, but a millwright, WEMR, toolmaker, or electrician would do any task even remotely similar to building a robot.
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My nephew...loves FIRST. He wants to be an X-Cat but since he lives in Atlanta and that's a heck of a long commute for meetings I told him he probably should strive to be the next best thing: a CircuitRunner. - Koko Ed [more] 
09-02-2004, 19:46
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