"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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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.

But have you seen a North American Marketing Manager in a shirt and tie,
doing board-level testing and repairs on an EDM power supply?

That was me, at Sodick. g

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Ed Huntress