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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have him get a teaching degree. Or how about being a mechanic?

Engineering isn't really about taking things apart. It's about problem solving through endless calculations and strategies.
True, most engineers have good mechanical skills, but they also need very strong academic skills.

[b]They also need to be very careful and precise [/b]- ' doesn't test well' is not impressive.[/quote]

This is so untrue. You are clearly not an engineer. My job #1 with new engineers is to to break them of this notion that was beat into them by their teachers and overbearing parent. It needs to be good enough. We can fix it in the next version (as long as it does not kill anybody). Nothing is ever perfect. It needs to go to production, now. [/quote]

So, your idea is that it's okay to say, send an exploratory Mars vehicle crashing into the planet after the LM ' engineers' (loose term because LM often hires non engineers to do engineering jobs - saves money!) didn't know how to make an accurate calculation or to understand how a result didn't make sense and was wrong. Because being exact and precise is just useless, is that right? I mean, what's $125 million and 5-10 years of an army's worth of people designing, testing , launching and monitoring the vehicle, right? No biggee!

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/[/quote]

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