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- From: bluelobster+@CMU.EDU (David O Hunt)
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- Subject: Re: I don't want to keep looking for new jobs.
- Message-ID: <AfBaf8K00iUx4443V6@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:09:28 GMT
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- On 21-Dec-92 in Re: I don't want to keep lo..
- user Ed Moore@vcd.hp.com writes:
- >If we engineers must expect to have many jobs rather than a few,
- >then perhaps we should pursue education in breadth rather than in depth.
-
- Yah! A little of this, a little of that. It makes sense.
-
- When I co-oped at GE (and then worked before coming to grad school) I was a
- Finite Element structural and processing analyst. (Wheee.) When the company
- I worked for folded, I obviously searched for another job. Do you know that
- the only position I was considered for, anywhere, was an analyst? Are you
- surprised?
-
- I know several very talented engineers who are locked into FEA. I know a
- few, at GM especially, who've been doing the same COMPONENT for 5+ years!!
- This is a phenomenal waste of a resources...that's why I went back to grad
- school - in order to broaden my horizons.
-
- Interdisciplinary studies (I share my office w/ 2 other Mech E's a Civ E,
- a Chem E (I think, I never see him), and an Architecture student are highly
- effective in sparking ideas. The "cross-pollenization" that occurs is really
- great!
-
- We need more company managers (like Ed Moore's HP bosses) who recognize that
- a well-trained and CROSS-TRAINED staff is far more useful than a whole room
- full of specialists.
-
-
-
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