Mein aktuelles Projekt geht bald zu Ende, die Arbeit ist weitgehend an meinen Nachfolger übergeben. Nun stellt der sich die Frage, welche Aufgabe kann er mir noch übertragen, die ich auch noch zu einem Abschluss bringen kann? Am Besten eine, die er selbst nicht mag?
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Lösen wir im nächsten Seminar, Workshop oder Training doch auch lieber ein reales Problem anstatt ein Team von 5 Erwachsenen eine Turm aus Papier, Schere und Radiergummi bauen zu lassen.
We try to show students that engineering is a career where we solve REAL, and IMPORTANT problems for REAL people… it isn’t just silly, made-up problems like pick up this ping-pong ball and place it over there before the other team does”. Unfortunately, the next speaker at the workshop, an excellent professor in a large Canadian University, stood up to describe his class’ project over the past year… you guessed it… it was “design a device to pick up a ping-pong ball and place it on the platform over there using this box of stuff”. Ouch…So what’s so wrong with the “box-of-junk” design projects for student engineers? After all, they give students experience with teamwork, they force them to employ basic physics in solving a problem, and to use limited resources to make something work, all of which are useful skills. They also reward creativity and attention to detail, both good attributes for future engineers.Unfortunately, I believe they subtly tell would-be-engineers that the practice of engineering is silly and irrelevant. Which of us actually remembers the details of our first-year box-of-junk project anyway?
Woahahah! Soviel zum Thema Functional Performance Test von elektrischen Units – selbsterklärende Grafik auf http://xkcd.com/730
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