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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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  • I could well be on my own with this one, but the most useful course to me has been an earthing systems course. Learning about transfer of earth fault potentials helps me stay alive in the high voltage field I work in.

     

    A course on applied problem solving from my bachelors has been very useful over the years for justifying projects and analysing different solutions. For me I have often found it easier to teach myself technical aspects but have struggled more with the non-technical skills, so have looked forward to courses of that nature.

     

    The least useful course was Prince2 practitioners course (project management), weeks learning specific lingo for Prince2 to pass the exam for a system that the company dropped the following year.

     

    Kind regards

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  • I could well be on my own with this one, but the most useful course to me has been an earthing systems course. Learning about transfer of earth fault potentials helps me stay alive in the high voltage field I work in.

     

    A course on applied problem solving from my bachelors has been very useful over the years for justifying projects and analysing different solutions. For me I have often found it easier to teach myself technical aspects but have struggled more with the non-technical skills, so have looked forward to courses of that nature.

     

    The least useful course was Prince2 practitioners course (project management), weeks learning specific lingo for Prince2 to pass the exam for a system that the company dropped the following year.

     

    Kind regards

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