12-29-2010, 01:24 PM
I am wondering as I write.
Some of the recent postings have been obviously from engineers-to-be. Should we have a separate section, under whatever heading we call it, to provide input to them.
This is an apt case. My reply above was akin to killing a mosquito with a tank. I am responding with my 30 plus years experience to a student problem, without knowing that the question was a classroom problem.
Maybe we should have a college student Q/A subpage, to which the experienced members can visit as and when they have time. In my position, such questions would have been addressed by people much lower in organizational heirarchy (staff engineer - project engineer - senior engineer).
Since the poster's age is not known, it is difficult to assess where the question is coming from. But recent experience seems to indicate that a lot of questions are student related.
Should we fine tune these type of querries? It will save time for me.
Some of the recent postings have been obviously from engineers-to-be. Should we have a separate section, under whatever heading we call it, to provide input to them.
This is an apt case. My reply above was akin to killing a mosquito with a tank. I am responding with my 30 plus years experience to a student problem, without knowing that the question was a classroom problem.
Maybe we should have a college student Q/A subpage, to which the experienced members can visit as and when they have time. In my position, such questions would have been addressed by people much lower in organizational heirarchy (staff engineer - project engineer - senior engineer).
Since the poster's age is not known, it is difficult to assess where the question is coming from. But recent experience seems to indicate that a lot of questions are student related.
Should we fine tune these type of querries? It will save time for me.