Do any other engineers feel they're "rusty"? How do you freshen up your skills?
Do any other engineers feel they're "rusty"? How do you freshen up your skills?
(OP)
After 20 years of experience as a mechanical "designer", I've never really truly challenged my analytical engineering abilities. 20 years removed from receiving a BSME even much of my termanology has become hazy; I found myself looking up the definition for Poisson's ratio and hoop stress recently. I'm a very strong designer but I'm embarrassed to call myself an "Engineer". How might I freshen up my skills relatively quickly (without taking long courses)? I need to freshening up on mechanics/strength of materials and (metal) materials science.





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It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.)
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RE: Do any other engineers feel they're "rusty"? How do you freshen up your skills?
I've been doing analysis and managing groups of analytical/design folks (structural, thermal, vibration, flow, noise, etc.) for most of my many year career and I still have to open a book, fire up a search engine, etc. to either relearn something or many times learn something new
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RE: Do any other engineers feel they're "rusty"? How do you freshen up your skills?
If you are good at explaining to others what you do, either internally or outside commercial training organisations may use you and then you get to attend the rest if the course for free...
My motto: Learn something new every day
Also: There's usually a good reason why everyone does it that way
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