yep, and clueless managers and the gooberment regulations and sales and bean counters and ...... make it tough for us to do a good job engineering and designing alot of things especially autos.
the "pull the engine to change the oil (or spark plugs)" was probably (very likely) a manager who said "shoe-horn that motor in that car .... no you have no budget to tool up a new oil pan. and we need it tomorrow".
yeah there are some poor engineers out there and i'm worried about some of the new ones coming in. with each generation it seem like more "kids" have less and less hands on "tinkering". farm kids (generally) should make a better engineer as most have seen how things work and have had to fix or help fix stuff and see and experience things that may/may not work well and see what happens if they don't fix it right, quality parts versus junk,... ect ect.
i've also worked with "engineers" that were called engineers but had no formal training. yeah, some were good and smart guys, and got the job done, but generally they had to do things 2 or 3 times and it was likely overbuilt = too much $$, too heavy, too long to build ect ect. Our coursework is designed specifically to give us the right tools and to train us to think and analyze, know how things work and find solutions. we think differently and it happens about the end of the sophomore year.
Actually, if it wasn't for engineers this sight wouldn't exist as I can't imagine any production tractors that didn't have engineers involved. = no antique tractors.
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