Any other engineers at SciForums?

wellwisher said:
This is why many African Americans often have trouble; the tribal unit is too limiting as a subset for civilization. They get left out of the advantages of civilization. To take advantage of civilization they need to leave the tribe. While immigrant Africans do better since they choose civilization, since the home tribal way is way too limited in logistics. They go back to Africa to feel the intimacy of the tribe, and then back to USA and Europe to enjoy the logistics of civilization.
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Gee, that's not very racist at all.:rolleyes: You continue to amaze... are you sure it isn't somehow tied to entropy.
 
Wow. I've been gone for a while, hard to believe there were 61 responses to this thread!

After 9 years with a Japanese Automaker, I switched industries and am now working for a major Jet Engine manufacturer.

Pretty late in my career to make a big change but glad I did it. Have to say I have had a blast being an engineer, but be prepared to work your ass off
if you go down this path!
 
I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering, but I work in Sales and Marketing. So I guess thy doesn't constitute me as an engineer. :p
 
Watcher said:
Fun stuff, you sound like more of a generalist. I'm very specialized in Automotive structures now, so I miss that. I used to analyze/test equipment used in steel processing, that was a good gig but we don't have a significant primary metals industry in the US any more.
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I got into this post today..."Generalist" usually means not so good....I have done heavy duty engineering in each area that are usually patent time. For example solutions to Rocketry or Boeing aerospace supply chain management....or heavy duty turbine blade metal configuration, or temperature measurement in extreme environment or compressor surge control or adaptive (AI Type) control system design etc... by the way, I taught primary metal to China many years ago and hence they are gone from here....and so on...

Time to retire or help USA for next generation Manufacturing...
 
wellwisher said:
One of the problems faced by Africa is connected to the contrast between tribal and civilization. Both are valid social organizations. The difference is tribal organization can only support populations up to about 100,000 people (more or less), while civilization has no upper population limit; china, india, etc.

Civilization is different, since it is less about blood intimacy. It more like going to a sporting event where all types of people are there, most of which you don't know. They don't share blood relation or natural intimacy, but rather a common mental abstraction (home team). In the case of the party, say family and neighbors, after splitting, both realize they are all like the same sport team abstraction and their team is in the playoffs. We put the game on, and there is mingling. It is not about blood anymore but about a common abstraction.

The resistance is at the social transition between tribal and civilization. Civilization has advantages at the level of logistics, while tribal has advantage at the humanistic level connected to natural intimacy. It is hard to do both at the same time, since intimacy breaks down at levels where the logistics of civilization really start to create economies of scale.

This is why many African Americans often have trouble; the tribal unit is too limiting as a subset for civilization. They get left out of the advantages of civilization. To take advantage of civilization they need to leave the tribe. While immigrant Africans do better since they choose civilization, since the home tribal way is way too limited in logistics. They go back to Africa to feel the intimacy of the tribe, and then back to USA and Europe to enjoy the logistics of civilization.
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This may not really work. As I learned this 30 years ago in "dirt poor China". All people can go forward. They need quality direction. And that what China got and it took this long for me to get involved in Africa. Specially Namibia - the birth place of civilization.
 
kmguru said:
I got into this post today..."Generalist" usually means not so good....I have done heavy duty engineering in each area that are usually patent time. For example solutions to Rocketry or Boeing aerospace supply chain management....or heavy duty turbine blade metal configuration, or temperature measurement in extreme environment or compressor surge control or adaptive (AI Type) control system design etc... by the way, I taught primary metal to China many years ago and hence they are gone from here....and so on...

Time to retire or help USA for next generation Manufacturing...
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Vibration test and analysis, new products. Deal with jet engine composite blades all the time, so I guess we have some common ground.
 
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