Engineer in a Box?

Posted by michael on Wednesday September 25, 2002 @11:54AM from the i-love-the-smell-of-solder-in-the-morning dept.

Dr.Luke writes "Robert Lucky in a IEEE Spectrum Online article laments the state of today's engineering as progressively more removed from the "real" reality of tinkering and soldering "in a big musty laboratory" like Thomas Edison as engineers become more and more reliant on software tools and simulations. He fears that "math itself is slipping away into the wispy clouds of software that surround us" and that eventually engineers will be substituted by a bestselling software program Engineer-in-a-Box 2.0. What do you think?"

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Re:Engineering is more difficult now by geekoid · 2002-09-25 12:05 · Score: 1, Redundant

absolutly.
assuming you replace "on the back of envelope" with "with a well educated team of electronic engineers who have the right computers and software for ther job."

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