[Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.

[Barry]

Don,
     I worked as a design engineer and then transitioned to system 
engineering/project management. In those latter days, I would receive a 
requirement set from which I needed to make sense. I also had budgetary 
issues that were built in, more requirements than money.  And, there 
might have been other conflicts. So, I know what e had to do, maximize 
the number of requirements satisfied with in the set.

     Yes. We engineers were pretty well trained, but when making 
decisions on what had to go or be included it wasn't always a 2+2 = 4 
which is precise. Mathematicians are precise and there may be only 
answer to the equation, but that wasn't the world I was living in; I 
could have many different solutions based on the requirements. This is 
the point I was trying to make.

73,
Barry
K3NDM

------ Original Message ------
From: "Don Wilhelm" <donwilh at embarqmail.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 6/10/2020 4:20:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.

>Barry,
>
>Well, when I was with IBM, my title was Engineer/Scientist, so I got credit for both.
>
>Engineers have the education and training to do research as well as making those judgements during design that sometimes result in compromises.
>
>73,
>Don W3FPR
>
>On 6/10/2020 1:15 PM, Barry wrote:
>>I strongly disagree. How many compromises were made to pull this off. You may use the laws of physics and math to design something, but unlike physics or math, engineering is not as precise. that means there are judgment calls made by design engineers. Physicists make judgemet call also, but only in data interpretation and not design. Sorry you couldn't be more wrong.
>>
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