[sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?

[David Panseri]

True.

Though, when I watch TV I tend to watch stuff with an engineering or
scientific focus. Discovery, History Channel, National Geographic,
etc. My shining moment was back when I worked for a company that made
coal mining machinery and one of my projects got featured in a Modern
Marvels ep. They interviewed my boss. I kept asking him to throw in a
line about the engineering team but either he didn't or it got cut
from the ep. That's probably the closest I'll ever get to being on TV.

If you aren't an engineer already Episode 5 of the miniseries "From
the Earth to the Moon" will make you want to be one. It documents
Grumman and their design for the Lunar Module and all the blood sweat
and tears the engineers there put into making it work. Those are the
type of guy (or gal) every engineer should aspire to be.

-Dave

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM, James Elliott<johans121 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We are too worried about consuming 'stuff' and being entertained than anything else. Why takes risks if you can sit on the couch and laugh at the tv while eating junk food? Where is the motivation to work when our heros are entertainers (actors, athletes, and musicians)?
>
> -Jim
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jerry Gray-Eskue <jerryge at cableone.net>
> To: Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:35:55 AM
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?
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> ...
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> I have to think that something is very wrong, what is going on in our
> education system that we are not progressing on this front? I have to wonder
> if the people at large are not looking to the past in various ways tiring to
> find the branch in time that put us here with a view to rewinding history
> and taking an other branch. Maybe that is what the DIY is really all about,
> a rewind and redo...
>
> --Jerry
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