John, "mind-enhancing substances": Is the caffeine in coffee (or tea or carbonated beverages) a mind-enhancing substance? IF SO where would many engineers be without it?!
Program managers would be very upset if engineers were no longer able to operate under the influence of caffeine! Many light night / early am trouble shooting sessions at the OATS have been fueled by caffeine. In addition to design efforts... Have a good Friday chuckle! Daren A. Nerad EMC Engineer 815.226.6123 -----Original Message----- From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sound Engineering Practice I read in !emc-pstc that [email protected] wrote (in <3187EE460C488A458D4 [email protected]>) about 'Sound Engineering Practice', on Thu, 6 Sep 2001: >I am struggling with one of those darned European directives, the pressure >equipment directive. One aspect of conformance is dependent on the >application of "Sound Engineering Practice". > >Does anyone have a practical or authoritative definition of "Sound >Engineering Practice?". > >It's and idea that easy often thrown about, but it seem very hard to define. Sure, it's a catch-all in cases where the engineering is more an art than a science (i.e. more than seven independent variables!). It's 'what you see in well-designed products'. For example, where you can't design something by using recognized mathematical methods, you base your design on previously successful ones, not on dimensions, etc. revealed to you under the influence of mind-enhancing substances. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Eat mink and be dreary! ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
