On Jun 12, 11:02*pm, (Al Dykes) wrote:
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They also had college-track electronics and mechanical engineering
programs. *The Mech students got several semesters in machine shop.
There was nothing like that for us Electrical majors.
Al Dykes

Maybe that's because a good tech can assemble any circuit you can
design, but you certainly can sketch a part which is difficult or
impossible to machine.

I've seen MEs at the Bridgeport a lot more often than EEs soldering.

jsw, who does both.