engineers' brains

It was that or divorce.

I didn't know in advance when the hot water had been exhausted, and instant electric water heaters don't produce enough hot water to give a respectable shower - most of the time there was enough residual hot water for my shower, so it never got irritating enough to force me to do something about it.

Happily, when we moved house in 1993, the central heating controller in the new house didn't offer programmable heating times for the hot water, and we didn't go to the trouble adn expense of finding and paying for a new controller that would.

In Cambridge, the roof timbers (from 1895) had been sized to carry a slate roof. They hadn't been reinforced when the slates were replaced by much heavier tiles - I wouldn't have dared to put a solar water pre-heater on top of the tiles. In Nijmegen our house has a thatched roof - water-reed thatch is a great roofing material, but no basis for a solar heat collector.

If the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy

- Red Green-

We do have one here, a very glamorous French woman. MSc project was the design and optimisation of a 70GHz amplifier. She checks that the SA Applications group's output does what it says on the tin.

Regards Ian

Just you...

No, I've known several PC layout ladies, and they were very good, better than the average guy, probably because they were more careful and more artistic than most guys. But they didn't design circuits.

I do know one brilliant woman, a PhD physical chemist and NMR expert, who spends a lot of time lately designing FPGAs in Verilog, but I consider that to be programming, not proper circuit design. She has absolute scorn for logic design using schematics and recently claimed over lunch that "you couldn't do the complex stuff I do with schematics." *She* couldn't, but I certainly could, and do.

But as regards circuit design, the combined influences approach 100%.

John

I had one woman employee, with no previous computer experience, that I taught, rather quickly, to program in PDP-11 assembly language. Her first program was to code a realtime language interpreter [1] for automated functional testing of digital pc boards, which worked great. But she was a dyke.

John

I recommend every male go see the movie "The Break-up".

It'll give you a lot of insight as to what kind of jerks we are ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Excellent, vintage Bloggs: two gross errors in a 2-word post.

John

John's original thesis (no female circuit designers) got me thinking about the female engineers I've worked with. Only one I can think of was a circuit designer and she was pretty poor. I've know quite a few who were logic designers, many programmers, and many of those were assembler programmers. Though assembler programmers were rather important and in short supply 20ish years ago so my POE retrained a *lot* of technicians and secretaries to become programmers.

Can she read a map?

Or do like a lot of people in Florida and put their well 100 feet from the house. You rarely have to turn the water heater on, all summer, and you have all the hot water you can use.

I worked with a bunch at former employer - probably 10% of the circuit design team was female.

I don't need to sit through a chick-flic to know that!

John

It's a different kind of "chick-flick", rather well crafted... the author plays the (male) lead part.

...Jim Thompson

If you're a "man", then probably, yes. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Not yet, but I've met a couple of female electronic techs, and on one job, my supervisor was a female EE. One time, while we were having margaritas for lunch, we talked about that - she said, "Well, I went to school because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life as some waitress or secretary or something." Very astute woman - if you ignored her spectacular gams, she was indistinguishable from any other EE. :-)

Cheers! Rich

LOL!!

Thanks! Rich

Not yet, but have you ever met a male who can create a human fetus? Without even using his hands? >:->

Thanks, Rich

That assumes that the Netherlands is at the same latitude as Florida... if I'm not mistaken, the Netherlands are at the same latitude as central Canada. (WAG, from looking at a small Mercator map)

Now in Arizona, on the other hand... do they even need to run the hot water heater in the dead of winter? >;)

Michael