我曾经向我的一位s子中描述了所有这些。她刚刚开始在工程部门担任管理员。“啊，哈，”她喊道。现在，她了解了她工作的人。问题在于，像所有刻板印象一样，事实更加混乱。是的，工程师比中位数人更具分析性。但这使工程师出色的问题解决者。一些工程师实际上是从事销售或高级管理人员的。我希望更多进入高级管理层。
画一个大型酒店宴会厅wi设置吃午饭th about 2,500 people, er, engineers, ready for lunch and an awards ceremony. Figure it would be a pretty dull place, right? Wrong. We were recently at the艾默生Global Users Exchange在这种情况下，在阿纳海姆。房间里发生的对话中的噪音和能量使有时很难听到。如此之多，以至于我们的同事出版商格伦·古迪诺（Glen Gudino）俯身对我说：“谁说工程师不能说话？”
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大厅在爱默生交易所和发票ensys Software Users Group, which was going on at a hotel across the street, were full of the energy of people passionate about what they are doing, sharing ideas. A friend asked at dinner one evening what more could I do to help show young people what a great calling engineering in manufacturing and automation is. If I could only bottle that energy and show it to high school and middle school classes, a transfer of enthusiasm would take place that could transform lives and society.
Engineers lead productivity
This issue ofAutomation World包含一些有关工程师设计和实施新的自动化系统能力结果的故事，这些系统有助于使制造成为企业中更有价值的一部分。
吉姆·科尔施（Jim Koelsch）关于诊断和预后的文章（第42页）展示了包括博士学位的工程师如何。工程候选人和博士后研究人员正在努力寻找更好的方法来发现潜在的或实际的机械和过程故障。基于预测或基于条件的维护具有增加可用性的潜力（这确实意味着增加生产能力），同时以更有效和有效的方式部署维护资源。从资产中获得更高的生产力是一个国家经济健康的驱动力。
After Dave Greenfield finished his article (p. 38) on wireless in manufacturing, we were provided information that艾默生过程Management’s（www.emersonprocess.com）wireless sensor network instrumentation and sensors based upon WirelessHart have accumulated a total of 1 billion hours of operation. And that is just one vendor. There are many suppliers who are selling WirelessHart products. In just the space of a couple of years, so many engineers have worked to develop the standard, and then the products, and then implemented the systems that wireless technology has become mainstream.
I once had the ultimate engineer’s personality. I remember when, as a freshman engineering student taking a history class, my first test results came back and I received a D. What’s up, I asked the graduate assistant. I answered the questions. Yes, he said, but you didn’t explain them enough. Next test, I filled two blue books with prose and got an A. So, I learned that something that can be answered in 50 words sounds better when you use 600.
天哪，有了这种教育，我本可以成为一名政治家！
