"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:29:04 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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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"
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"Christian McArdle" wrote in
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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.....

All related in some way. Now this bridge building.

A very broad range. I'm quite certain that should I ever have an
interest in so doing that I could understand bridge building or any
other engineering discipline. The basic principles are the same, as
are the mathematics required to understand them.

Go to Ove Arup and say I want to build bridges. they will say, what, you
have an electrical degree? You want to build bridges now? The door is over
there sonny boy! As you are being carried over to the door shouting, "but
know some sums", they will look in amazement, and ring the clinic.



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