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four-legged animals are horses. There's nothing that says that sand has
to be exclusively silicon. In Hawaii, the beaches might be black
because they're almost pure igneous rock. In some other parts of the
world, the sand on the beach might be almost pure coral, and *that* is
almost all calcium.
And you go to a store that sells such stuff as sand, cement, etc, and
you buy some sand and you might get "DG", or decomposed granite, which
is definitely not pure silicon, and probably has a lot of calcium in it.
Anyway, you get what I mean.
yields was the contaminants caused by the filters letting a minute
amount of particulates thru.
think there was something in the credoes you posted about making the
place a better world, and seeing things differently. And fixing
something that's broken is something that's gratifying, as a tech I know
from first-hand experience. But making something that's broken better
and seeing the improvements one could make differently, seem to me to be
in the true engineering tradition.
But just one other thing. Those idiots in personnel, er, human
resources have botched things up so badly by calling pencil pushers
'technicians' and field technicians 'field engineers' that it's
difficult to tell just who's who nowadays. :-(
Next week I have to go to HQ for a 90 minute interview about my job.
The district hired an outside company to 'evaluate' our occupations, so
a few months ago we received an hour briefing and a handful of paperwork
called a 'PDQ', position description questionnaire, that we all spent
hours filling out. So then our schmuck bosses gave us some of the
inside paperwork, (sort of like the instructor's manual), started
telling us what they wanted to see in a rewrite of the PDQ, and the
union cried 'FOUL!' and said that that was giving our group an unfair
advantage. So they had to schedule each of us for an in-person
interview just to get things straight and on the up-and-up.
God, I love(?) the bureaucracy.. Back in the '80s, They found that I
was getting overpaid so they froze my COLAs until the others caught up.
I hope the outcome is a lot better this time.
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Yeah, I grok that, but what's it got to do with engineering?"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com
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"Oppie" <boppie@-nospam-ludl.com> wrote in message
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I still haven't been able to find anybody at Parker Corporate that
can
help
me get posters of the "I am an Engineer... Engineers see the world
differently" advertising campaign. Nobody at corporate seems to
know
what
this is about. 'guess this happens when companies get that large.
A couple comments on the following.
Re: pill, if everyone thought like an engineer, then there would be
no
need for that profession, hence the engineer would suffer the same
fate
that consumer electronic techs suffered in the '70s and '80s: most
consumer electronics techs became unemployed when the price of TVs,
etc., became so low that it was cheaper to buy a new one than fix
the
old one.
= Yeah, it seemed sort of elitist.
Re: outer space: I really loved that one that showed an astronaut in
his
space suit talking on a two-way hand-held walkie-talkie! Like,
Right...
= <grin
I'm still trying to figure out the implications of this one:
I believe "drug discovery" is more than
just a phase some people go through in college.
= 'Drug discovery' is the formal name to researching for the purpose
of
coming up with new pharmaceuticals. Nice double meaning though.
Well, as I was implying in another followup, that's like saying allI find the following two mutually contradictory.
I would vote for the first one taking precedence.
I believe a man with a semiconductor
is still no match for a woman.
editorial comment: that's messed up!
I believe there's nothing more exciting
than a submicron package.
Re: "playing with sand", I consider that an extremely severe
understatement. Like, grains of sand aren't submicron!! It's gone
a
l-o-n-g way past the point of playing!! Seriously!!
Years ago, back when there was a local memory wafer plant that
needed
expanding, the company got a contractor to build an addition onto
the
bldg. The production yield went down to 40% when the contractor
started
working. After all, the contractor was only playing with gypsum
wallboard, which is just a kind of sand..
= Strictly speaking, wallboard is Gypsum which is magnesium sulphate.
Sand
is Silicon Dioxide.
four-legged animals are horses. There's nothing that says that sand has
to be exclusively silicon. In Hawaii, the beaches might be black
because they're almost pure igneous rock. In some other parts of the
world, the sand on the beach might be almost pure coral, and *that* is
almost all calcium.
And you go to a store that sells such stuff as sand, cement, etc, and
you buy some sand and you might get "DG", or decomposed granite, which
is definitely not pure silicon, and probably has a lot of calcium in it.
Anyway, you get what I mean.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about vibration. But the main reason for the lowAs you know, between any vibration which can really mess up an IC
manufacturing process and extra contaminants for the filtration
process to
handle, definite effect on yields.
yields was the contaminants caused by the filters letting a minute
amount of particulates thru.
Well, I'm taking a bit of literary license for effect. After all, IAnd finally, I think I should differentiate the engineer and tech.
Re:
fixing a broken flashlight, that's the tech's method. The engineer
will
rip out the incandescent light bulb and replace it with a Luxeon
Star
LED, and put some lithium cells in there, too!
= Dunno, I'm an engineer by way of the workbench. I like simple fixes
but
could see myself repairing a flashlight.
Oppie
think there was something in the credoes you posted about making the
place a better world, and seeing things differently. And fixing
something that's broken is something that's gratifying, as a tech I know
from first-hand experience. But making something that's broken better
and seeing the improvements one could make differently, seem to me to be
in the true engineering tradition.
But just one other thing. Those idiots in personnel, er, human
resources have botched things up so badly by calling pencil pushers
'technicians' and field technicians 'field engineers' that it's
difficult to tell just who's who nowadays. :-(
Next week I have to go to HQ for a 90 minute interview about my job.
The district hired an outside company to 'evaluate' our occupations, so
a few months ago we received an hour briefing and a handful of paperwork
called a 'PDQ', position description questionnaire, that we all spent
hours filling out. So then our schmuck bosses gave us some of the
inside paperwork, (sort of like the instructor's manual), started
telling us what they wanted to see in a rewrite of the PDQ, and the
union cried 'FOUL!' and said that that was giving our group an unfair
advantage. So they had to schedule each of us for an in-person
interview just to get things straight and on the up-and-up.
God, I love(?) the bureaucracy.. Back in the '80s, They found that I
was getting overpaid so they froze my COLAs until the others caught up.
I hope the outcome is a lot better this time.