On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:32:31 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:41:57 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
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Madness!!!! I can just see a board designer,
saying "the next job is doing a bridge". get real.
Well reality passed the snots by a long time ago.

You'll find that once you get past a
certain level, there isn't actually
much difference between engineering
disciplines. It is basically
mathematics.

Many can adapt to the mathematics of different fields, but designing an
electronic board and designing a bridge are miles apart, irrespective of
sums.

The point is that equipped with the educational backgound, it is
possible for an individual to embark on a career doing either and to
adapt to doing completely new things.

OK, a board designer joins Ove Arup as a bridge designer. How long will it
be before he does anything useful at all? I would say about 5 years, and
only after course on bridge building. You make sound as if all these snotty
uni people can just flit from one field to another and mater it in weeks.
Please get real.

Nobody said weeks, or any other timescale.

Personally, I have done analogue, digital, RF, power and
microprocessor systems design - hardware, machine code, assembler, C
and other high level language development; control systems, audio and
video systems. I've then designed and used real time and other
operating systems, networking since before ethernet and IP became
commonplace and datacomms, mainframe and minicomputer
environments..... Apart from engineering, I've done support, sales,
marketing and run businesses successfully.

I could have stayed on a path of designing microprocessor based
control systems and to an extent been perfectly happy with it.
However, it never occurred to me that there should be a limit on
finding out and doing more so I have.

I use the principles of how to go about thinking and finding
information every day. If I needed to go and design a control
system, I could find the relevant information and apply it extremely
quickly.

That's very real.





What planet are you on?

One that understands the enduring nature of education based on how to
think, I would imagine.

See above


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..andy

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