Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2006-08-21 06:46
To do the job well, requires a lot of analytical thinking... analysing the problems, analysing the various solutions.
If one is self taught, then these basic mechanical analysis skills have to be excellent, in order to be successful.
If one has formal training but does not have the basic analysis 'bent', then one is really only learning to follow a recipe, which works in some cases, but by no means all.
I am glad I am basically self-taught, because I have had to think about, and justify in my mind through understanding, every process I carry out.
Eventually, at age 45, I pursued formal training in mechanical engineering, starting with the topic "Engineering Materials", because I thought it was relevant to my work, but followed by all the other topics to finish a qualification, mainly for intellectual recreation.
This study was made far easier because I already had the "pegs" of practical experience to "hang" the information on, compared with the young students for whom much of the course was relatively abstract.
This study did not CHANGE the way I worked, but provided a formal and mathematical analysis, and richer understanding of what had already become intuitive.
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