Re: Engineering as a Cutting-edge Career.

On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:52:21 -0700 (PDT), Alan Nishioka
<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 30, 7:37 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You're an engineer if you design stuff. That doesn't automatically
make you an engineer just because you have some certificate or some
titles. I don't think that Yasser Arafat designed a lot of stuff.

I would say further that it has to work. Too many people design stuff
that doesn't.

Alan Nishioka
Electrical working stuff designer

Yeah, I suppose a "working engineer" designs stuff that works.

And a "staff engineer" designs flagpoles.

John

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