Re: What was your first job out of college?
- From: "Bob Myers" <nospamplease@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:34:14 -0600
"terryS" <tsanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I tend to agree with Michael. In my mind no matter what job one does
one should be professional enough to be able to communicate
effectively and accurately in at least one language.
Can't disagree with that. I have been known to go so far as
to tell newbie engineers that their top priority as an engineer
is to communicate clearly, and their most important product
is documentation.
Engineers do not make products as such; that is the job of the
manufacturing line. It is the job of the engineer to clearly and
unambiguously communicate HOW to make those products,
and what to do about it when the production goes wrong.
That's "documentation."
Some argue that the engineer's main job is the creation of new
designs - but the design itself, the new idea that the engineer comes
up with, is utterly useless until it is written down, drawn, made
into a schematic, etc. - and note that those latter two also almost
always have to have some accompanying verbage to explain them.
That's "documentation."
Bottom line - I don't especially care how well you know your theory
or how creative you can be when it comes to inventing something
new, if you can't express those ideas clearly. If that's the case,
then I don't want you.
Bob M.
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