Anyone who thinks engineering is strictly a science, has never done it, or watched the process up close. Sure, engineering design is partly science -- all the math and computational part. But there's a significant part of the engineering design process that is definitely ART. That's part of both the beauty AND frustration of electronic product design.
The frustration comes from never knowing exactly how long it will take to complete a design.
It happens to the best of us. Here at TechniQuest Associates, we have had some experience with the frustrations of projects taking a little longer than we'd estimated. It was the "art" component that makes estimating how much work is involved more complicated.
The good news is that two of our current projects are coming to a close, and the clients will soon have what they've contracted us to do. Stan has been putting in very long hours to finish his project, and Scott has also been putting in lots of extra hours to make sure his client is happy, as close to on time as the "art" will allow.
How boring it would be if all there was to engineering was a set of formulas and theorems to apply, or debugging to do. The creativity that each one of our engineers possesses is constantly being encouraged and challenged, with each new project we take on. That's what sets our team apart, and I don't think they'd want it any other way.
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Very well explained and so true! Hope that somewhere in the art of it is making it simple!
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