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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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  • side note: my specialization was Measurement and Regulation (control?) techniques (Meet- en Regeltechnieken).

    In essence, this meant learning presicion,  the uncertainties and tolerances when measuring, feedback and control theory, closed loops and automation (with valves and PLCs).

    For electronics, pneumatic and hydraulics.

    I can't even start to say what I've forgotten since 1986. Digital I may know better than in the 80's. But PID theory, analog control, feedback and control loops are very hard now for me. Same for maths - that's a disaster these days. I can't cope with calculus 1 anymore. Used to be fluent with looking op logarithms in a book ...

     

     

     

    On the other hand, I gained other capabilities like managing big teams in harsh circumstances, managing budgets that scare me every day,  delive projects, stay when things get rough and others leave,  stand tall and own up when failing, grow, maintain a professional network, stay sane in corporate life  ...

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  • side note: my specialization was Measurement and Regulation (control?) techniques (Meet- en Regeltechnieken).

    In essence, this meant learning presicion,  the uncertainties and tolerances when measuring, feedback and control theory, closed loops and automation (with valves and PLCs).

    For electronics, pneumatic and hydraulics.

    I can't even start to say what I've forgotten since 1986. Digital I may know better than in the 80's. But PID theory, analog control, feedback and control loops are very hard now for me. Same for maths - that's a disaster these days. I can't cope with calculus 1 anymore. Used to be fluent with looking op logarithms in a book ...

     

     

     

    On the other hand, I gained other capabilities like managing big teams in harsh circumstances, managing budgets that scare me every day,  delive projects, stay when things get rough and others leave,  stand tall and own up when failing, grow, maintain a professional network, stay sane in corporate life  ...

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