[Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.

[Barry]

Don,
     I never got the chance to work as a scientist. It might have been 
fun. I did enjoy doing designs to products, but there were times when I 
was ready to change career field. :-\

73,
Barry
K3NDM

------ Original Message ------
From: "Don Wilhelm" <donwilh at embarqmail.com>
To: "Barry" <k3ndm at comcast.net>; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 6/10/2020 9:46:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.

>Barry,
>
>Sometimes we have to put on the Scientists hat, but when the rubber meets the road and we have to come up with a product, we have to put on the design engineers hat and say that how much compromise is required to meet 1) customer demands, 2) budget constraints, 3) speed to first customer shipment, 4) adherence to the initial specifications that have been published.
>If you can meet 2 of the 4 above, you have done OK, 3 is better, but takes more effort.
>
>I worked both as a design engineer and as a Product Assurance Test Team Leader whose efforts were to test the product to conform to the specifications or fix it - an alternative was to change the specifications, which usually did not sit well with me, but was reality.
>
>73,
>W3FPR
>
>On 6/10/2020 7:55 PM, Barry wrote:
>>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.
>>
>


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