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Why do you think such wrong things about civil and mechanical engineering. Tell me about all the on time and under budget civil/mechanical engineering projects
by rockemsockem 2y ago
Why do you think such wrong things about civil and mechanical engineering.
Tell me about all the on time and under budget civil/mechanical engineering projects that are happening.
Do you think that just because they have physics to lean on that they can just like press solve and have accurate estimates spit out?
Edit: I totally agree that more long-lived battle tested software toolchains and libraries would be great though
- Arainach 2y agoSuch delays are overwhelmingly political, not engineering. The local government demanding yet another environmental impact review is not an engineering cost - it is a scope change.
- eacapeisfutuile 2y agoScope change is really not a foreign concept in the field of software engineering, including politically driven
- abtinf 2y agoLicensure injects politics into the heart of engineering.
- mckn1ght 2y agoHow do you know things wouldn’t be much much worse if there were no standards for being a civil/structural engineer or architect that have been refined over long periods of time? Imagine municipalities taking the lowest bids by far thrown out there by any rando that decided they can make a few bucks by welding together the supports for a bridge or designing a really interesting building that will just cave in on itself a decade hence.
- rockemsockem 2y agoThere are tons of physical engineers working on safety critical hardware that are not required to have some BS piece of paper that says they're safe. You do not need a credential to work on EV charging infrastructure, rockets, crew capsules to ferry astronauts to the ISS, or many, many other things. That's how you know, because those fields are not less safe. It's an easy comparison.
- mckn1ght 2y ago> work on EV charging infrastructure Could you expand on that? Are you saying that you don’t need a licensed electrician to connect a new EV charging terminal at installation time?
- rockemsockem 2y agoThis thread is about engineers. I am talking about engineers who design the EV charging terminal.
- webmaven 2y agoIt's not common anymore (like, in the past three decades), but "taking the lowest bid from some rando" is definitely still a thing.