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Post by aleedx on May 9, 2013 13:15:50 GMT -5
Engineers/Engineering Students! How would you know you know enough about what you are studying?
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Post by FPEPro on May 9, 2013 13:30:59 GMT -5
You don't. Just as soon as you think you do. You will go to work and realize you still don't know much.
Chris
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Post by joaodsemeano on May 9, 2013 13:51:24 GMT -5
You don't. Just as soon as you think you do. You will go to work and realize you still don't know much. Chris Sent from my DROID RAZR using proboards That's actually a good measure of how much you know... If you think a subject has nothing more to find out, you haven't been to the verge of knowledge in that subject. Hence, you don't know every knowledge bit we have about it. If, on the other hand, you have doubts about what the basic concepts of that subject mean (for example what adding means in math) you don't know almost anything about it. Of course there are subjects where the entire struggle is to understand the concept (concept of energy in thermodynamics comes to mind). |
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Post by Robinet on May 9, 2013 14:52:57 GMT -5
At the rate technology goes forward these days you can never know enough in my opinion.
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Post by FPEPro on May 9, 2013 21:12:27 GMT -5
At the rate technology goes forward these days you can never know enough in my opinion. That was essentially the point I was getting at. Given enough time, or change in virtually anything from project, company, or location you will find yourself needing to learn or re-learn things again. In my job I am in a constant state of learning. I know enough to know I need to keep learning. And I also know enough to recognize what I still need to learn. Beyond that, I lay no claim to knowing enough to do anything thrown at me. Chris |
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Post by Hellfire on May 22, 2013 6:43:47 GMT -5
I think, as Engineers we should all be smart enough to know that we will never know EVERYTHING about any subject in particular. I think that one of the keys to learning is having the understanding that we don't know EVERYTHING, and opening ourselves up to learning everything that we possible can.
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