This is my first blog entry, and ah.
How nice it seems to have an english blog.
This blog is to be used mainly for my ENG 198 class, but I will post some nitbits and whatnots whenever I feel like doing so
(The availability of internet is hardly a restriction.)
Well, off to class. Ta-ta, everybody. See you guys around, and forgive me if I ask your name over and over again, I am the zenith of forgetfulness.
I can only hope I'll forget to forget someday.
Oh, and the homework assignment.
First, let us identify the main problems. That 11 MB PowerPoint presentation in a line goes like this.
Engineers do not know how to : Ask good questions, Look up what has happened where they're interested, Ask around 'Who's who?', Know basic terminology, Know or invent new terminology, Be comfortable with foreign objects, Understand the matter at hand, Division of problems, Measure real life data, Draw comprehensive and accurate graphs, Communicate.
Whoa, looks like we don't have much here, Mr.Engineer.
I'm joking, but the lecture says that such problems are prevalent in some of today's engineers (included myself, which I totally agree) and thus becomes a hindrance in future engineerings. I agree that some of them, especially the communicating part, may be serious problems for some engineers.
The concept of the missing basics were, to be honest, a disappointment. Not a disappointment in the sense that "Oh, those aren't much of a problem, are they now?" but a disappointment in the fact that the engineers who develop the modern day and world as we know of it may come to lack such basic skills which are required in not only extraordinary circumstances, but in everyday lives and activities. (Hell, or is this proof that engineers do not have a life of their own? But I digress.) It is something that definitely needs to be improved, for not only the sake of our engineering futures, but also our everyday social life. Regarding communications, Are they not able to communicate their ideas and thoughts in the comprehensive, organized manner that the scientific society wants? Or is the problem much more complicated than that, because the expectations of such traits is much more pronounced and sophisticated that what would be required of normal beings? I will come to find what such problems may be along with my self-evaluation upon those matters by attending this class.
The concrete steps would be, I guess, will be to understand how to convey your ideas and thoughts in a direct, clear manner and identifying to whom you should communicate in such a manner, as well as keeping tabs and tracks of progress within one's work so that he/she may be in full control of the situation/lab/engineering project which may contain important information. One must be able to understand what he/she is doing before relaying the information with clarity to another being, and for that, he or she must have a good grasp on what he/she is doing. One must act with a purpose, and if it is to be for the greater, general good, then I think there are certain measures and steps that must be followed, and such documentation and declaration are one of those many things which we require to present an engineering product to the real world.
