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Subject: Re: [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to do
Author: Christopher Wright
Date: 2008-04-18 04:37:33


On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:12 PM,
wrote:

> Many of our customers are complainging that they can not find
> enough quality new graduates who want to focus on simulation for
> their career, especially at the graduat level and especially when
> you require US Citizens.
I'll take a shot. Simulation isn't a career for anyone, except maybe
people who develop simulation software. Simulation is a tool, not an
engineering discipline. The reason we get so many people hopelessly
balled up with gigantic models they can't troubleshoot or results
they can't interpret is that they think ANSYS lets you simulate
behavior you don't understand.

I don't think your customers realize that a new graduate hasn't
anything like the depth needed to understand physical processes
common to engineering design, let alone the associated practical
issues. Using myself (and some colleagues) an an example, the time to
take up a career involving simulation is after you've worked in the
field long enough to know what constitutes good practice--which
envelopes to push and which is stay clear of.


Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw_at_skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/



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92883[OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to doEric Miller2008/04/17 
92886Re: [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to doChristopher Wright2008/04/18 
92915Re: [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to doKyle Stoker 2008/04/18 
92919Re: [OT] Why there are so few New Grads who want to doJason Krantz2008/04/18