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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).

Modulation and information theory are not "pass�".