I was looking for a way to comment on this young engineer's opinion piece. I never found an e-mail address or comment board, but she apparently had an internship at NASA based on another opinion piece. http://media.www.thestute.com/media/storage/paper1092/news/2009/11/20/Opinion/The-Independent.Thinker-3836523.shtml [snippet] One of the memories that I believe will follow me for the rest of my engineering career is an event that happened during a past co-op. My senior engineer asked me to do a basic thermal analysis and, being a diligent mechanical engineer, I scratched them out and brought them to his desk. He picked up the paper with the equations and glanced over it. Suddenly, he threw them on the desk and glared at me.
"Don't give me any of these damn Communist units," he told me shortly. Yes, I had committed the cardinal sin of an American engineer; I had performed a calculation using the metric system instead of the Imperial System. [snippet] I wanted to comment that she should get out of aerospace and into ground transportation or another industry segment that is predominately or totally metric. (Where she could be equally criticized for performing any engineering work in Customary.) (I must confess we throw enough Customary in the Owners Manual and on the dash to successfully masquerade as dual - but we aren't, not really)
