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"What courses were most and least useful to you in your engineering career?"

danzima

Hey there, community! It's a pretty muggy Friday here in Chicago, but also it's Friday, so on the whole things are good.

 

One of our Chicago colleagues is writing an article for another publication on the topic "What courses were most and least useful to you in your engineering career?", and he thought it would be interesting to get input from our community, so I wanted to open the question up to the members area.

Any response that makes it into the article will be credited to you, so maybe that'll be the start of your second career as a public intellectual and you'll wind up doing TED talks in Palm Springs soon enough?

 

Thanks in advance for your input!

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  • Without a doubt, my technical writing class became the most useful in my career.

    Being able to communicate technical ideas with all ranges of people makes a huge difference to your career options.

    There were better engineers than I, but my superior communication skills gave me the edge, especially since I could describe complex ideas in simple terms with management. Trust me, managers do not fund projects they do not understand, so you really need to simplify ideas down into basic terms.

     

    After considerable thought, I would say there were no least useful classes. Being a systems engineer I was tossed into a wide range of projects and I ended up using just about everything I learned in school. You just never know what tidbit of knowledge will come in handy.

     

    DAB

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  • Without a doubt, my technical writing class became the most useful in my career.

    Being able to communicate technical ideas with all ranges of people makes a huge difference to your career options.

    There were better engineers than I, but my superior communication skills gave me the edge, especially since I could describe complex ideas in simple terms with management. Trust me, managers do not fund projects they do not understand, so you really need to simplify ideas down into basic terms.

     

    After considerable thought, I would say there were no least useful classes. Being a systems engineer I was tossed into a wide range of projects and I ended up using just about everything I learned in school. You just never know what tidbit of knowledge will come in handy.

     

    DAB

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