Dear John,
Thanks for the reference. I have written to the editor of thestuste
journal at http://www.thestute.com/home/lettertotheeditor as follows:
Dear Editor,
Could you please pass on my sincere congratulations to Regina Pynn for
her article, The Measure of an Engineer by
Regina Pynn that I read at:
http://media.www.thestute.com/media/storage/paper1092/news/2009/11/20/Opinion/The-Independent.Thinker-3836523.shtml
The USA needs more engineers like her who have the courage to stand up
and say that the USA can no longer afford to play silly games with old
pre-metric measuring words.
Regina might like to pass on several articles to her former supervisor
at NASA who might then like to reconsider whether Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington were all communists, see: http://metricationmatters.com/docs/USAMetricSystemHistory.pdf
She might also like to consider the origins of the metric system in
the USA at: http://www.metricationmatters.com/who-invented-the-metric-system.html
And finally, she might like to think about the cost to the whole of
the USA of not being metric at: http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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On 2009/11/23, at 11:29 , John M. Steele wrote:
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)
