No shortcut to be a successful design engineer
According to “Frustration and failure fuel Dyson's success”, a design engineer who gets an inspiration from his frustration and failure to find the better way to produce the facilitators to facilitate human, learns that there is no perfection in design since things should be improved to be better and better.
Engineer is an occupation that most people think that he or she is a fixer rather than maker. This is not quite a right idea. Both of these two things should go together since if an engineer knows just only the way to fix things but has no creativity, the new invention will not possible to arise. As Dowling mentions that “observation is important.” ,I think this is an essential skill for a designer to design a prototype to reach the nearest point of perfection. A stage of designing a new innovation is not easy, an engineer need to have a passion for doing their work in order to correct all the plausible mistakes that can happen when the users use and make it be user friendly. This takes time and much effort to do and also costs a high amount of money. Moreover, there is a risk that the product will not succeed and then it is wasteful investment. This is a normal failure that an engineer must admit. In contrast, failure is not just discouragement, yet it can reinforce the potentiality in that engineer to find the best way to make something work better. As we can see from Dyson’s experience that not every of his product is successful, CR01 washing machine is an example of this since it costs too high to produce this product.
Since there is not any shortcut to succeed, the more people try, the nearer the success is. Why don’t u learn from mistakes and make it better?
Reference
Dowling, S. (2013, March 14). Frustration and failure fuel Dyson's success. Retrieved March 15, 2013 from http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130312-failure-is-the-best-medicine/3
In my viewpoint, engineers are very good at math and science. Civil engineers, for example, have to deal with construction, such as buildings, bridges or even dam. High responsibility and high possibility of errors generally come together. So, I agree with Poom, it's good to have fault but it doesn't mean good to do. Trying to fix it is more meaningful. Like Ming post about doctor, it is also true in every careers.
ReplyDeleteI think that every mistake one make, he or she can learn from it. At least he or she knows that it's one of the wrong way that should not be undertaken further. That is a saying that before Edison became sucessful scientist who invented a light bulb, he had made a lot mistakes. So, don't give up, keep doing and you will succeed one day.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion,Poom is right. Engineer need both creative and maintaining instrument or fixing skills such as medical engineering whom study both human anatomy and invented medical insturment which very complicate. Those people should have a creative idea and always eager to learn more about new teachnology all the time. Therefore, it doesn't have a shortcut to be a sucessful design engineer.Whenever, I see new generation can invent such a little thing,I always feel happy and would like to encourage them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the idea that people should learn from their mistakes or other's mistake and avoid to conduct the same mistakes in the future.
ReplyDeleteAccording to one of Albert Einstein's quotation, Einstein says “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” and “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The good example of these quotations is Edison Thomas which he used thousands of material to make a filament for creating long life bulb which this is an ambiguous thing which changes all night forever.
Reference
Albert Einstein Quotes at BrainyQuote. (2001-2013) BrainyQuote® Retrieved March 16, 2013 from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html
Great quote from Einstein - it describes perfectly the absolute insanity of much government policy, such as the drug policy that repeats exactly the same thing for decades when it is obviously a total failure. Sane people, rational people, moral people, would have admitted long ago it was not a solution and have tried something new that might actually help people and societies with drug problems.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with that you can learn from the mistake you made but it can also learn from the others. I like this which Einstein said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." And just like a discussion about a book, an issue or something else, shows the opinion to others and get some response from others, and makes you thinking that there's another solution in the same case.
I think that an engineer should be good at maths and physics, and creativity is important as well. He/She must use a creativity to successfully create new inventions. These inventions may based on his/her ideas, his/her failures, or other people's failures. By the way, I agree that any successful design engineer, as well as other people in different occupations, has learned from their experience. With creativity but without learning failures, one still cannot accomplish his/her work.
ReplyDeleteI like the comments people have made about the value of making mistakes. I've always thought that one of the great strengths of democracy is that it allows lots of mistakes to be made knowing that they can be corrected at the next election, or the one after, and the things that work well can be kept. This alone seems to me to make democracy better in principle than every other alternative, and the history of different systems seems to show that democracies also make for the most economically successful nations in practice.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think that there is also a strong correlation between scientific excellence and democracy - from ancient Greece to today, it is the democracies where science tends to thrive.