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Engineer in a Box?

Posted by michael on 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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  1. frist post, fagots! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    1. Re:frist post, fagots! by CowboyTodd · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Re:Engineers Aren't Going Anywhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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