[BITList] Woman as explained by engineers

[franka]

Hugh,
If Dysons products are supposed to be of good engineering quality then 
as far as our friends and family are concerned he has overrated himself 
we have had 3 of his machines fail, 2 in the first year and one after 18 
months innovated  they maybe, quality they are not and all used in a 
domistic environment. I think the word engineer is very loosely bandied 
about nowadays compared with what we thought constituted an engineer.  
Mind you when one looks at the dictionary definition!

On 4/1/2011 4:40 PM, HUGH wrote:
> Frank,
> It should be Woman = Time + Money, but never mind - the rest works out 
> OK. On engineers, there is a curious view of them in the Independent, 
> in a letter from James Dyson, he who invented a different vacuum cleaner.
> He says, "The graduate pool for intellectual property generation is 
> shrinking ; while Britain has 37,000 engineering job vacancies, it 
> produces just 27,000 engineering graduates each year."  He goes on to 
> gloss over his decision to have his machines assembled in Malaysia by 
> "business evolves". His thesis seems to be that universities make 
> engineers, and that they develop gadgets of some saleable shape and 
> colour that can be sold in great quanitities from production lines in 
> the Far East.  How widespread is this myopic view?
> Hugh.
>
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