Re: IEE or IEEE

From: Ian Bell (ruffrecords_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:27:45 +0100

Joerg wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
>>>What good does this kind of regulation do? I am not against registration
>>>per se but I oppose all these needless hurdles. After all, a hard earned
>>>degree from a reputable university is what makes a great engineer and
>>>not some eight-hour test.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I thought that relevent experience, appropriate knowledge and the urge to
>>explore things much deeper than the shiny product box went in to making a
>>great engineer.
>>
>>
> Absolutely agree. I was only pointing out the difference between 4-6
> years of hard learning to achieve a degree versus an eight hour test by
> some bureaucracy.
>
>>Before I left school I was always tinkering with old radios, electric
>>train sets, Mecano, Lego, and a whole range of other materials, to
>>construct wonderful items. Great engineers have more than just their
>>academic learning behind them. They also have a practical bent.
>>
>>
> Same here. My favorite day was "large appliance pickup" by our disposal
> company. As a kid I'd scurry around and haul huge TVs back home, on the
> baggage rack of my bicycle. The hardest part was pushing all this up our
> steep hill. Then I either repaired them or parted them out and built
> something else. That is how I really learned electronics. The university
> was to get the MSEE. They gave us a good dose of math which helps a lot
> but the electronics stuff taught in the later semesters was mostly deja
> vu to me.
>

I think all real engineers like this. I joined the local radio amateurs
club in my teens (this was in the days before transistors were commonplace)
and scrounging parts from old/dead hardware was the norm. The club
secretary said he had some old TV sets I could have. I went round to his
house and he took me out into his back garden where to my astonishment
there was a pile of old TV chassis at least three metres high!

Ian 

-- 
Ian Bell

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