Stuart Brooks
02-12-2010, 09:35 AM
Ever noticed that an engineering degree, and in some cases an architect degree, may can get you through certification and licensing requirements in home inspection and related fields? Why?
I've worked with too many engineers who were totally inept in their own field much less something like home inspection. They were good for meetings, generating proposals, and other non-hands on work. Engineering school does not prepare one for the real world. Oh, you have to learn to eat and breath calculus but they don't teach technical skills. That you have to get from co-oping, internships, or on-the-job training.
Short story: Senior Mechanical Engineer decides he is going to be a contractor and build houses, on the side. One day he comes into the office moaning and groaning about building inspectors. Then he asks, "How are you supposed to know all that stuff?"
Are you smarter than a EE with a PhD? Answer this: What is a D-cell?;)
Note on technical skills statement above: Okay I did learn how to throw and put up a measuring chain and basic transit and level use for Civil Engineering at VT way back in the slide rule days.
I've worked with too many engineers who were totally inept in their own field much less something like home inspection. They were good for meetings, generating proposals, and other non-hands on work. Engineering school does not prepare one for the real world. Oh, you have to learn to eat and breath calculus but they don't teach technical skills. That you have to get from co-oping, internships, or on-the-job training.
Short story: Senior Mechanical Engineer decides he is going to be a contractor and build houses, on the side. One day he comes into the office moaning and groaning about building inspectors. Then he asks, "How are you supposed to know all that stuff?"
Are you smarter than a EE with a PhD? Answer this: What is a D-cell?;)
Note on technical skills statement above: Okay I did learn how to throw and put up a measuring chain and basic transit and level use for Civil Engineering at VT way back in the slide rule days.