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What tool or technology do you reach for most often as an engineer?

Tell us what tool, technology, or instrument you reach for most often in your engineering work.

 

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  • I spend the most time with my CAD package - schematic capture and PCB layout. Design it right the first time, then everything else takes less time. Of course if it includes software, the equation changes...

    Then I usually spend more time assembling with my stereoscopic microscope and soldering iron than I do toubleshooting. That said, a DVM is essential and a scope is needed for tougher problems.

    However, the single most important tool that probably also occupies the most time is the internet, and it saves far far more time than it occupies - by many orders of magnitude.

    For things you already know, you complete quickly - for things you don't know they are found on the internet.

    I suspect your poll results would be quite different if the internet was on the list.

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  • I spend the most time with my CAD package - schematic capture and PCB layout. Design it right the first time, then everything else takes less time. Of course if it includes software, the equation changes...

    Then I usually spend more time assembling with my stereoscopic microscope and soldering iron than I do toubleshooting. That said, a DVM is essential and a scope is needed for tougher problems.

    However, the single most important tool that probably also occupies the most time is the internet, and it saves far far more time than it occupies - by many orders of magnitude.

    For things you already know, you complete quickly - for things you don't know they are found on the internet.

    I suspect your poll results would be quite different if the internet was on the list.

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