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Originally Posted by CubDieselFan
The plant I work at just hired a degreed mechanical engineer. Questions he asked this week are: 1) He pointed to a hard stop and asked what it was, he was told a hard stop, he then asked what is a hard stop. It was mounted on a slide. 2) He wanted to know why a 1/4-20 bolt was called a 1/4-20 bolt. Again he was told and then he said, yea we had that is school and I do not remember. All he has ever done is play video games.
Youngsters today only want to mow and go.
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Sadly, a lot of highly educated inga-neers lack mechanical ability.
although they can give, or look up, the mechanica/physicall properties of a bolt, they were never taught which way to turn it.
Recently, Detroit has been requiring building contractors to hire Detroit residents on construction jobs.
They are finding it impossible to find skilled trades persons in the city of Detroit
for these projects.
The schools just don't teach industrial arts as they did in the '50-'60's
Sorry,
There I go again, off topic
