I can't agree more. It has been awhile since my undergrad days but the
closest reference to product safety and standards I ever came across in
my studies was in an Engineering Practice course. The course mostly
covered engineering law (torts and contracts), product liability,
professional ethics, patents and copyrights etc. The key message the
course tried to drive home was that if an engineer failed to exercise
due diligence in his/her work, lawyers would get very rich from that.
Actually, I would could have used a course on the electrical code since
my first job after graduation involved satellite earth station
installation in a large infrastructure project. It seemed ironic at the
time electricians generally had a better grasp of the electrical code
than most electrical engineers did. Things probably have not changed
much.
Perhaps a product safety course should be added to the 4-year
curriculum. But then again, what course would they displace to make
allowance for it, electromagnetics- maybe :-/
Dan Kwok
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