In 1997, I said goodbye to the only woman I've ever loved, and drove
North, following Comet Hale-Bopp through the night to a new job in
telecommunications. Yes I know that sounds like the beginning of a very
bad novel, but things actually happened that way. I had been interviewed
and offered a job at what was then DSC Communications, later Alcatel USA.
When I got there, I found there had been a change in plans; there were
two jobs open, and I got a choice of either the EMC test position they
had interviewed me for, or a position in their design department, as it
happened, the only EMC position in that department. Without hesitation,
I told them I wanted the design job.
"Why" I was asked, "do you want that position? Most of your experience
has been in test and remediation".
I said, "That's why I want the design position. Test engineers fix the
same problems over and over again; design engineers can make them go away."
I asked for and was given read-only privileges to all of the design
files, and for some five years I did exactly that, though some of the
managers had to be shown that throwing sheet-metal and filters at
equipment was a losing proposition.
A few years after leaving there I added another paragraph to the sermon:
Design the EMC support equipment at the same time you design the
product, make it adaptable to future products, and bid accordingly, as
the product will then comply with requirements and specifications the
first time – and cost less than low-bidding up front.
Or as I told a manager not long ago, "The problem's not technical; it's
structural."
Cortland Richmond
On 5/11/2016 3:26 PM, Richard Nute wrote:
At the forthcoming PSES Symposium, ISPCE, (and at past Symposia) there
is a track “Compliance 101” which strives to provide training in
product safety.
http://2016.psessymposium.org/sites/2016.psessymposium.org/files/ISPCE-2016_program_grid_web_v3.pdf
And, there is this forum.
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