I am a GRUMPY OLD NO NONSENSE engineer. My degree says electrical and computer engineer but I joined Rickover's Nuclear Navy. I met Admiral Rickover twice or more accurately, grilled by Admiral Rickover twice. Nuclear Navy training has got to be the best in the world. I was a reactor controls division officer on a fast attack submarine. When I got out I was hired to be a system/project engineer for saw mill projects. It took only a few week for the company to figure out I knew much more than the current head of the software department and was soon head of the software department. Oh, BTW, while in the navy I competed in the first world Othello/Reversi championship at North Western University in 1980. I came in 7th but people were amazed I could do so well without formal training in artificial intelligence.The fact that I did so well made it easy for me to get a job after the navy. The first company I worked for got merged with another bigger and more established company so I had to move and my title was system engineer. I got laid off in 1985. I think it was mostly because I was very critical of management decisions. I was given a chance to show I was right about everything. Fortunately I was asked to work for a small company I currently work for about a week before I got laid off. I held off for about a month before accepting the offer. At that time we were only 4 people. Again I was doing software. I played king maker and deposed the old president and now I am president of a $8M company of a 30 people company that makes industrial control products that are sold around the world. We have distribution around the world. My company is small but we compete favorably with the the biggest companies on earth mostly because the big companies have employees but we have experienced people with tribal knowledge with physics and math abilities that exceed what others can do. Another, BTW, the company that laid me off is now one of my best customers. The fools the laid me off are long gone.
I get involved in many different fields in engineering and have migrated from mostly software to consulting and marketing. I can post links to dozens of engineering articles I have written. Magazine editors seek me out. So do engineering book publishers but there is no profit it writing engineering books and much of the good stuff is trade secret.
My company was involved in the testing of the Phoenix Mars Probe testing, lifting sections of the new bay bridge and many other projects.. I have personally done consulting for the FAA and Sandia's department of energy. Sure, they have PhDs but they call me because I keep my math and physic skills current. Our products get used in testing jet fighter, helicopter and other aircraft parts and the making of aircraft parts. Boeing 737 rivets are inserted using our controllers. The 737 is old technology so I don't expect repeat production business but I do expect more testing business. I/we also train people in the oil and gas industry as well as many other industries.
Most engineers do not keep their skills up to date. They have my contempt. So do many of the people that claim to have PhDs on this and other forums and yet hide when a technical question arises. I give them no slack. In real life I am usually asked to clean up their messes. I go easy on those that don't claim to be engineers since they will not be doing engineering work that fails.
This is an example of the crap that I have had to take from other TT forum moderators.
"Irepeat, keep this attitude up and you will be banned. I don't have totell you what actions we take against other users. If we single youout, that's because you are the worst offender out of the group, noother reason.
[FONT=Verdana, serif]Alsoyou can't cop out of examples of math that you don't understand.Newton was proven wrong, and now it seems Einstein was proven wrongabout gravity. One of my oldest friends has a PHD in theoreticalphysics from Dartmouth, but I'm sure he has better things to do withhis research for the airforce than to post stuff on sports forums. "
This forum moderator idiot had no clue as to who I am, what I can do, and what my math and physics skills are. I am sure they are beyond his imagination. What does his oldest friend have to do with anything? I bet the moderator never relayed what I wrote to his PhD friend to verify what I wrote. Newton and Einstein were not wrong until one gets into quantum mechanics. What and idiot this moderator is. TT deals with simple physics not quantum or interstellar physics.
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