Engineers: So we had all this complicated theory, but no one can calculate that stuff by himself. Here’s a linear aproximation formula and 50 pages of tables where you just look up the values for the factors given certain conditions.
The complicated math is for the one guy who made the tables and charts. The rest of you just look it up. It’s fine, it’s how we’ve always done it. Even sending people to the Moon had lookup tables for precalculated things. Although those guys were legend, ever try to use a sliderule?
When your “calculator” is a room full of women, mostly black, it is kinda hard to fit them all into the orbiter.
Edit: I just realized that the “mostly black” came off like I was saying that us part of the reason they would not fit in the orbiter. I was trying to acknowledge the impact and importance of these black women in history, but I am autistic and fail hard at SQ communication.
Depending on the field, later in your career you can often skip the spreadsheets and get away with just saying, “That looks close enough,.” If you have enough seniority people will assume you know what you’re talking about.
Hopefully you utilize Python instead of Excel for data management. Unless you have non-engineers or tech-illiterate people on your team or adjacent teams lol
Why not both. I once wrote an abomination that read and wrote data into a Google Spreadsheet, interacting with formulas in the spreadsheet in the process.
As an engineer, this hits close to home.
Engineers: So we had all this complicated theory, but no one can calculate that stuff by himself. Here’s a linear aproximation formula and 50 pages of tables where you just look up the values for the factors given certain conditions.
The complicated math is for the one guy who made the tables and charts. The rest of you just look it up. It’s fine, it’s how we’ve always done it. Even sending people to the Moon had lookup tables for precalculated things. Although those guys were legend, ever try to use a sliderule?
When your “calculator” is a room full of women, mostly black, it is kinda hard to fit them all into the orbiter.
Edit: I just realized that the “mostly black” came off like I was saying that us part of the reason they would not fit in the orbiter. I was trying to acknowledge the impact and importance of these black women in history, but I am autistic and fail hard at SQ communication.
I comprehended it as meant, and you’re right, give credit where it’s due.
Depending on the field, later in your career you can often skip the spreadsheets and get away with just saying, “That looks close enough,.” If you have enough seniority people will assume you know what you’re talking about.
As another engineer, not at all 🤨
Computer engineer checking in. Same here!
Hopefully you utilize Python instead of Excel for data management. Unless you have non-engineers or tech-illiterate people on your team or adjacent teams lol
I mostly use sql for data management stuff through c# .NET. But there is a lot of Excel and power bi towards the numbers people.
Why not both. I once wrote an abomination that read and wrote data into a Google Spreadsheet, interacting with formulas in the spreadsheet in the process.
Join the technicians in the field who get to laugh at engineers, its more rewarding
Edit: sales get the commission tho :(