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Yep, i never understood this either. You finish your college, you're officially an (eg.) engineer now, you can build a bridge, millions of people will use ever
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
Yep, i never understood this either.
You finish your college, you're officially an (eg.) engineer now, you can build a bridge, millions of people will use every year, and it's ok... but if you want to try out new compositions and additives of/to cement in a lab environment and measure their properties, you need a mentor, and six different unrelated courses... and preferably a well-known name to co-author your article, to get it published at all.
- watwut 4y ago> You finish your college, you're officially an (eg.) engineer now, you can build a bridge, millions of people will use every year, and it's ok As an engineer just out of the school, you wont be the one responsible for building a bridge millions of people will use every year. It takes more years to get there.
- dagw 4y agoFirst of all a freshly graduated engineer will never be signing off on a bridge used by millions of people a years. More importantly designing a bridge using a century old design, well understood materials, and sticking to all the well known, well documented and legally mandated best practices we have accumulated over the years is an entirely different skill than trying to come up with a novel and better way of designing or building a bridge and then conclusively proving that it is still at least as safe as the old way of building a bridge.