This Thread reminded me of a cartoon I saw once,
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Machinists vs Engineers

 

This Thread reminded me of a cartoon I saw once,
maybe you'll get a kick out of it too ..................
Machinists vs Engineers

When I was an undergrad (Engineering Physics), we had to take a block during Summer Field Session on machining. The Engineering students also took a block on machining at the local community college. The intent (largely successful, I'd say) was to make engineers more aware of what can and can't be done in fabricating a part and how much effort is involved in achieving various results, with the hope that this would cause designers to be more cognizant of considering whether the designs they came up with could actually be fabricated economically. Sadly, there was always pressure from what I call "academic engineers", namely people that had little or no experience in real-world engineering, to cut back these programs on the basis that we were supposed to be "educating engineers, not training technicians". The same pressures were always there in other engineering disciplines, such as cutting back on hands-on labs for civil and electrical engineers. So you end up with electrical engineers that have never heard of standard resistor sizes and have seldom taken component tolerances into account.