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More convinced than ever that engineering 101 should really just be shopping 101 Every class would just be a teardown of some random junked thing, build up a bill-of-materials, spreadsheet of parts and what they do, links and prices. Then you’d shrink or cost-down the design.
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While in undergrad I interviewed at a power electronics company. One portion of the interview was a sheet of paper with chip company logos and no names. “What are these companies called?” — I aced it, then asked why?: “to see if you’ve ever read a datasheet / done practical eng.”
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I'd have flunked that test miserably. Interestingly, my dad would have probably flunked it too -- since he graduated in 1959 and worked his whole career in the old steel industry which meant mostly build > buy, and only a few very big vendor relationships for heavy equipment