cortland.richmond...@ccmailsmtp.ast.com wrote: < had to snip some stuff >
" the original question was whether courses in complying with regulations should be offered in college." This is a queston with many parts to it. If it's just safety, then no. If it's emi/emc, then maybe. If it's about just regulations, then no. "Isn't this issue more an engineering ethics problem, and a social consequence of our work, than a problem of technical design?" I would think this should permeate all engineering. Hopefully we're all ethical. Technical design is the other side of our work. "Getting compliance designed in can be much harder than discovering when it is not." Actually, the opposite has been my experience. I must as a compliance engineer make myself a signatory to: printed circuit board layout, system layout, mechanical layout approvals, component approvals. I must also be a signatory for any ECRs that would effect changes to said layouts. Believe me, designing in at the beginning is much easier than finding out in some lab at 2:00AM. I've been on both sides. Alot of the above just cannot be taught in school. Regards, Doug ************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------ The comments and opinions stated herein are mine alone, and do not reflect those of my employer. ------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************************
