[BC] Re: Engineering school practical

[cldube]

Jeff-

Thank you for posting that story. I think there's a lot to learn in this 
little anecdote.
It's a lot like what a musician friend once told me regarding seeing 
performers whose work
he didn't really like, and that was basically that he'd watch them anyhow as 
there was *always* something
he could take away from the experience. He would stifle the internal (and 
eternal) critic within. It always resulted
in a gain.

Chuck Dube
Amherst


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Subject: [BC] Re: Engineering school practical


>My first impulse was to raise my hand
> and set this person straight. I did not do that. Instead I thought of the
> various ways what he said could be analyzed and the likely skill level of 
> the other
> students. I concluded that while there is no direct rule that I know of 
> about
> PEP but there are limits on modulation and carrier power, that equals a 
> limit
> on PEP in an indirect way.
>
> The
> instructor was presenting the material in the context of what was 
> presented in the
> book. This important point is often missed by people overly impressed with 
> their
> practical experience.
>
>So what may appear as "stupidity" on the part of the
> instructor may simply be an opportunity to learn something unexpected if 
> the student is
> open minded enough to catch it, rather than trying to prove superiority 
> over
> the instructor.
>
> An adversarial attitude toward the instructor does not serve a positive
> result. >
> Jeff Glass, BSEE CSRE
> Chief Engineer
> WNIU WNIJ
>