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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: Criteria
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 23:45:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 23:45:18 1985
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[on an ME course at Case]
> ...project required designing a flat metal link.  The link was to be made
> of a specified grade of aluminum, and had to carry a specified load.
> ...
> Each student turned in a drawing of their link.  A machinist actually 
> machined the link out of sheet aluminum; the student checked the link
> against the drawing, and when satisfied, presented the link for grading.
> The link was placed in a hydraulic testing machine and the specified load
> applied; if the link broke, the student failed the course...
> ...
> This may seem harsh.  But this is what engineering is all about.

But it's not what teaching is all about.

-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.


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