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Posted by rp1@surfnetusa.com (A) on April 10, 2007 at 10:37:07

In Reply to: Re: Prop head posted by May Belt on April 10, 2007 at 01:12:02:

Of components and assemblies would come under the heading of "engineering". But it would be a discussion of the plusses and minuses of the technique; what was gained and what was lost.

And there would be the problem as things in this room sit now...the pure Subjectivist would scream because the engineer didn't COMPLETELY endorse the idea and the pure Objectivist would scream because they didnt get their work approved by a national laboratory!

The engineers that formerly posted in this room had feet in both worlds; they only cared what worked. If theory gets you there, so much the better as it means you can repeat your work on other designs. If your particular selection of parts and layout works a bit better, also good as it means you have brought a bit of art into it that the "other guy" couldnt.

John Curl knows his math and sets up the basics of his designs with it. He could do no other. Then he uses the experience of many years in parts selection and layout to improve on that basic design. But an engineer cannot just randomly throw tweaks at a project; he has to have SOME rational for selection. No man can live long enough to try everything suggested, there has to be a filtering process. There has to be SOME logic to what he is doing, at least in his own mind.

All the above is a long-winded (sorry) way of saying that too much tweak/subjectivist talk chases the engineers away. Since they have their feet in both worlds they still have to be somewhat rigorous in their thinking. So, pure trial and error subjectivism is not going to sit well with the logical, trained, part of their being.

All the above is IMHO on the subject, some gained by knowing many engineers, both male and female. No pure Subjectivists or Objectivists were harmed in the production of this post....
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