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    New engineer: Are my expectations unrealistic?

    Flyhi Its exactly how you described it. Meetings, Reading mail, Typing the lead engineers spreadsheets, memo's exc. phoning vendors and craping them out of missing data, phoning vendors and inquiring on data of there products. Double checking drawings and Single line diagrams. Tiping...
  2. shavelength

    Definition of an Engineer

    sorry I am late: An engineer: this person will produce the most with the least amount of efford and recieve the most amount of stars in exactly the correct time whilst enjoying a nice cup of coffee and deligating his troops. Or in other words: (The image of the duck racing in the pond.) The...
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    Motor Protection vs. young engineer

    Thanks If their is any more info you can direct me to, please let me know. I made a valuable input today in one of our meetings after reading through the relay handbook last night I got from one of the above links. Knowledge is a powerful tool, even in the hands of the incompetent.
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    Motor Protection vs. young engineer

    I have just started out in a very large company as a young engineer working on motor protection. I found out (surprise) that I know very little about protection. Now I am trying to find information on the net, but all that keeps popping up is product list, advertisment exc. I need hardcore...

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