Stupid comments by an engineer

"Raveninghorde"

• Messrs Abbott and Costello famously said:

PhD stands for Pin headed Dope.

... Phil

PhD == Piled Higher and Deeper ...Jim Thompson

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A lot of folks around here have PhDs (Post Hole Diggers).

Sounds like he already knows a lot about nothing. No need to send him for a PhD.

Cheers

Ian

I'm not sending him.

He's from a culture that respects qualifications not achievements. I think respect for the Word prevents one being willing to challange received wisdom.

To be fair to him he'll do well in a non design environment.

I've made LOTS of money from fixing circuits for PhD's, then returning again and again and again to fix what they changed after I left ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Not surprising.Have you read any IEEE papers most of those pea brains have PHD's.

I'm surprised more people aren't killed from shoddy consumer and for that matter industrial electronics.

What amazes me is the world still funds the PhD system.

Steve

You should send this to Scott Adams for his "True tales of induhviduals" segment. ;-)

Cheers!

Rich

They have to have a doctorate or a masters, or your not really allowed to publish in most refereed journals, unless your a student working with a PhD..

I'm dealing with a situation where a friend doesn't have the right "qualifications" to publish. He came up with something earthshaking, new, useful, and novel, patented it, licensed it etc, Now wants to further it along, and publish what he found. His condition for working with the pointy haired crowd, simply his name is on the byline, he'd even fund the research. He knows the science better then most postdocs in the field.

So far no takers.

Steve

When I google I search "search phrase" -IEEE -WIPO -patent -portal ;-) ...Jim Thompson

One of the huge mistakes in academia. Right up there with universities and colleges not allowing practicing engineers to teach because they don't have the "proper credentials".

Why not self-publish it on a web site and make sure search engines find it? You can format it just like a scientific publication and there's nothing the ivory tower guys can do against it.

It's normal. Each closed group supports their status and defends itself from intruders using whatever reasons. BTW, try practicing law or medicine without proper credentials. And would you remind what is exactly P.E. about?

VLV

Let him work on the high current 20kV PSUs Problem solved.

Happened to me. In the early '70's there was a shortage of technicians. I offered to teach FOR FREE at the local community college. I was declined because _I_only_had_a_Masters_ :-) ...Jim Thompson

That is part of where the AGW crowd got started. One guy gets a theory, and publishes 'proof.' The next guy looking at it says, "Well, the part in my field is all ca-ca, but this other stuff looks compelling..." and so supports his collegue. The other guys, in the other fields, all feel the same, but still support the original premise since they can't refute the stuff outside their own field of expertise. Also, since that second guy supports it, the stuff in his area must be right...

Charlie

And then there's the Slowman type that rubber-stamps _anything_ spouted by academia, even though he, himself, couldn't manage a left-handed screw (purport that as you may ;-) ...Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

And your undergraduate degree must have come from a college known as a party school that slackers attend to just squeak by without actually learning anything too. :-)

If you started offering, e.g., week long design classes to industry I'm sure you'd get plenty of takers. (Same for Win and Phil and Joerg and others...) -- the going rate is ~$300-$500/day/student, which appears to make it worthwhile for all involved if you can round up at least 5-10 students.

---Joel

And they are the same guys who reckon AGW is real.

Cheers

Ian