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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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  • Surprisingly enough... typing.  All the loop circuit stuff and antenna field concepts are all stuff that I go back to, because each new idea has a refinement that makes the stuff I learned long ago, a bit outdated. However, learning to poke buttons on an old Selectric hasn't changed (except for the spacing of the keys).  I did however play a little with Dvorak but always drifted back to qwerty.  For the amount of source code generation I have done over the years in assemblers of all types and C, Pascal, Java, Ruby, and now Python, I find being able to type well and not do the two finger dance, has proven to be most valuable.

     

    Jack

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  • Surprisingly enough... typing.  All the loop circuit stuff and antenna field concepts are all stuff that I go back to, because each new idea has a refinement that makes the stuff I learned long ago, a bit outdated. However, learning to poke buttons on an old Selectric hasn't changed (except for the spacing of the keys).  I did however play a little with Dvorak but always drifted back to qwerty.  For the amount of source code generation I have done over the years in assemblers of all types and C, Pascal, Java, Ruby, and now Python, I find being able to type well and not do the two finger dance, has proven to be most valuable.

     

    Jack

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  • in reply to jack.chaney56

    I find being able to type well and not do the two finger dance, has proven to be most valuable.

    Strangely in High School I took typing for one year. Me and the other guy weren't really sure why, as the girls weren't that great or we weren't that interested. image

     

    Later when it came to computers, knowing my way around the keyboard was a great help.

    I'm only a two or maybe three finger typist and that's fine with me.

     

    I think nowdays with computers, tablets and texting, the keyboard skills are learnt from a very early age, so unless you actually want to be a typist, I guess those classes won't have 'strange people' attending.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to jack.chaney56

    Oh, right, there are two parts to the question. Least valuable to my Engineering experience, perhaps the English Literature class that did an in-depth study of "The Great Gatsby". (I'm sure to get some blowback for that one)