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You seen where oil filters are located on some motors? Those people that engineered them are either the cousin of Lucifer, or engineering comedians!
YOu just havent been desperate enough. Desperate times call for drastic measures.I've never had a warm beer in my life!
It should be a prerequisite for engineers and architects to spend 5 years working ‘out in the field with the trades’ prior to thinking about designing anything.
I had a professor in college tell us all to learn from experienced treatment plant operators when designing treatment plants. He pined what a great mistake it is not to seek advise from these people. I’ve sought the advice of intelligent Contractors, some of which are extremely intelligent. It takes experience, maturity, and wisdom to successfully apply an engineering education to solve real life problems. I’ve always been eager to learn as much as I can from the great Contractors, Operators, and Vendors I’ve had the pleasure meeting. I strive to stay humble and prove myself by being clever, logical, rational, and generally right. I’m open to those much smarter than me, more experienced as well as less experienced and less smart, so long as they are logical and rational. Cheers BillI always think of guys that are wrapped around the axles with calibers and bullet ABCs akin to engineers.
Much like a young engineer will argue with a road contractor with 30 years of real world experience about what his calculator and equations say about how to do the job, those bullet/caliber guys that have never even seen a brown bear will argue for literally hours with a guy that has watched 30 of them killed about how it all works on his calculator.
At least 2 years is good. I started out in the office as a designer, however, I spent a lot of time in the field with my plans during design and then during construction with the resident engineers. I was VERY hands on, always have been. I really enjoyed design, unfortunately it only lasted for a few years, then project management, and finally grinding through construction management, struggling to get quality work, done correctly and safely, which has little engineering, and involves great strength of mind and will the last 20 or so years. The industry has gotten so ferocious, toxic, and hostile and POLITICAL.It should be a prerequisite for engineers and architects to spend 5 years working ‘out in the field with the trades’ prior to thinking about designing anything.
Too right.I think the vast majority started out with a sense of humor and then lost it around calc 2.
Calc II was the devil.Too right.