Re: HOW OLD are you?

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From: SFTVratings_troy
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:46

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Soundhaspriority wrote:
> "Don Pearce" <nospam@nospam.com>
> > SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >>I'm 35.  Engineer.  And you?
>
> > I'm 57, and I'd like to say I'm an engineer, but the word is debased
> > currency these days. People like me, who have done the studying, can
> > design systems and circuits, write international standards, climb a
> > transmitter tower in a gale, get you a telecomms license and shmooze
> > middle eastern potentates etc etc are engineers.
> >
> Designing circuits and writing standards will get you "engineer."  The other
> things you mention are too nebulous to qualify for a title, but they're good
> things to be good at.

Yes.  I believe the word you're looking for is "technician" - somebody
who knows how to fix various things and assemble them, but doesn't
know how to design, because they typically have only 2 years of
college or trade school.

> He can't be a competent engineer if he doesn't understand synchronous
> detection, which may predate single side  band, pre 1952.

Is "he" refering to me?  Well sorry to disappoint you, but a lot of
that stuff is passe', and no longer taught in college.   I studied
digital circuit design and digital signal processing at Penn State.
No analog stuff other than the basics (op-amps).

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