Re: [PipingDesign] Re: Eng-Tips

I always commented that my dgree was an "obedience school certificate"-- it proved I was trainable.

Technically in most of North America, there is an "internship"... 2 to 4 years of working as an EIT (engineer in training) before you can call yourself a real engineer... of course, whether anyone cares if you can call yourself a real engineer depends greatly on exactly where you are... and the quality of the EIT phase depends on the people around you.

Shannon

• Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote:

> One of the things about practicing engineering is
> that engineering
> students never learn their limits. They just learn
> what someone tells
> them to learn in order to pass a test (or maybe they
> look over
> someone else's shoulder) and graduate with the
> impression that
> they're engineers.
>
> I got lucky because I was a co-op and I learned a
> fair amount about
> my manifold limitations as I was going through
> school by working
> alongside real engineers. I was by no means an equal
> or even close,
> but I could learn some stuff by paying attention,
> thinking about what
> I was doing and risking the odd question. There
> really ought to be a
> sort of internship program where sprog engineers get
> run through the
> mill in a real engineering office, like medical
> interns. A good solid
> pounding like that concentrates the thoughts.
>
>
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an
> elephant at
> chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words
> of Gen.
> .......................................| John
> Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
> 1864)
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