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Engineering On Friday: The Field Engineer

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27 Apr 2012

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Truly an overlooked, underappreciated part of the team. Remember, they always make it work.

 

Read some stories from out in the field:

The military's uncelebrated heroes, the Joint Robotics Repair Detachment

Military mechanics go Augmented with help from ARMAR

Why Is My Equipment Being Taken Away?

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Infrastructure Improvement: The Smart Bridge

(More to follow, soon...)

 

 

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See more Engineering On Friday comics in the Engineering Life group.

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  • tarz
    tarz over 13 years ago

    DAB...I feel your pain. I thought, too, that the rats nest of wires also represented

    the state of our technologies and how hard it is the navigate within them.

     

    An Existential Cartoon? On Friday no less.

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    DAB over 13 years ago

    I can relate.  I have had to untangle more than one "rats nest" of wires in my day. 

     

    I always liked to hear one of the scientist complaining about noise or cross talk after they just tossed thier cables on top of whatever was already in the wire racks.  It took forever to explain to them that you do not put signal wires on top of power cables and expect that your 60Hz problem would go away.

     

    Brilliant people can be incredibly obtuse about practical engineering.

     

    Thanks

    DAB

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