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OT Engineers / Scientists
Are you (by training) an engineer or hard scientist?
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914nerd
post Jun 20 2007, 05:56 PM
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Well, how many of you are there lurking out here on the world?
If you are one, what field, what do you actually do, and how do you like what you do?

This is prompted by a conversation that I had earlier today questioning the future of technical fields in this country.
What do you people think about the fact that science (arguably one of the most important aspects of modern life) is being shunned and, in many ways, is beginning to fall apart?
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post Jun 22 2007, 06:35 AM
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Apropos Charles's original question, I ran across this op-ed / appreciation for Don Herbert (a/k/a "Mr. Wizard," if you're old enough you remember him)...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/o...-oped-headlines
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post Jun 22 2007, 09:59 AM
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Computer Science geek. Working in Aeronautics Research pretty much my whole career, which is just going on 20 years now.

I'm not Jake's enemy, but I am willing to question his understanding at times. Not his results (they do speak for themselves, after all!), but the reasons. Because I want to understand the reasons myself as well.

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post Jun 22 2007, 10:12 AM
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post Jun 22 2007, 05:02 PM
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Have been working for the last dozen years or so in the medical device world developing non-invasive technologies for neonatology and asthma management at startups. Cool field, cool people...can't complain.
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post Jun 22 2007, 05:19 PM
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I'm an MME

Mickey Mouse Engineer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

school'd to be an A&P aircraft mechanic....

fell into a position as a drafter/designer while being a fabricator.......

recruited to be a designer/engineer at a small start up in '98, still in business and still not making money (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ....doing some ME stuff semi-conductor business related as well as some mickey mouse engineering which is my favorite...

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post Jun 22 2007, 08:23 PM
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QUOTE(Mueller @ Jun 22 2007, 03:19 PM) *

still not making money (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


Join the club bud... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jun 22 2007, 08:36 PM
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Have been working for the last dozen years or so in the medical device world developing non-invasive technologies for neonatology and asthma management at startups. Cool field, cool people...can't complain.



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post Jun 23 2007, 01:05 AM
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QUOTE(brp914 @ Jun 22 2007, 07:36 PM) *

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BS Mechanical Engineering
MS & PhD in Biomedical Engineering.

Have been working for the last dozen years or so in the medical device world developing non-invasive technologies for neonatology and asthma management at startups. Cool field, cool people...can't complain.



blah blah blah, what car(s)/bike(s) ya got? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


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post Jun 23 2007, 06:07 AM
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QUOTE(jk76.914 @ Jun 21 2007, 04:28 PM) *

Apollo Computer

Long time since I heard that name! They were leading edge hardware back in the day.

Since soap boxes are the order of the day...

Science and engineering is not dead. There is a great crop of young adults coming out of our universities who still have the desire and drive to learn for the sake of learning. God love 'em!

But yes we (Canada as well) are being overtaken by offshore people. We are actually quite fortunate that their best and brightest choose to come here in search of the good life. Only can help our gene pool.

So why do we appear to be falling behind? Others have said it - it is how are kids are growing up. Start at home - are parents challenging our pre-schoolers to be curious about the world around them and how things work?

Then we get to school. Our curriculum has great ideas but who is delivering it? Look at the ratio of BAs to BScs in our teacher cadre. Not that I have anything against the arts but they don't have the passion for the sciences required to ignite the next generation. The oportunites for science minded people have been too great over the last generation(s) for them to dedicate themselves to lower paying teaching jobs. There is hope on this horizon as high bandwidth to schools allow for working scientists and engineers to share their passion for learning with students through video conferencing and such.

And finally - and I'll get my butt kicked for this - kids are not as driven as they were a generation ago (my dad probably uttered the same words). They are not as materialistic as we were. The work required to get their Engineering degree is just not appealing to many of them. Thank goodness this is not true of all of them and we still have people like 914Nerd to take up the challenge.
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post Jun 23 2007, 01:18 PM
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post Jun 23 2007, 04:22 PM
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post Jun 23 2007, 04:36 PM
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