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Mike Singer wrote:

>>> Engineer's professional world is of strict rules, specs etc=A1K There=
 real
>>> life world rules are set by some ideology, say, Christianity, Marx
>>> theory or whatever. Those two engineer's worlds are different "by
>>> design". That's two absolutely different experiences.
>>=20
>> I'm not sure I understand that fully, but I think I disagree. I'm not =
a
>> Christian, but for what I know about Christians, I think the Christian
>> engineers would hold that they try to use Christian principles in thei=
r
>> work whenever possible -- and that they regret when they feel compelle=
d
>> not to, and try to get better with that and have less reason to regret.
>> (Similar thing can be said for Marxists, IMO. Not sure about "whatever=
"
>> :)
>=20
> Even with soviet engineers this is not true.=20

If you mean "soviet" as in "citizen of the (ex) USSR"... this is a
politic/geographic classification, not an ideologic one.

> No serious engineer would claim he used communist ideas to develop a
> device. Perhaps many would claim they are driven by the idea a communis=
m
> to take over the Globe, but not that they used the ideology principles
> to develop an EE device. The same about Christian engineers, nobody
> would claim they used The 10 principles to choose, say the value of a
> resistor :-)=20

Of course not (choosing the resistor value based on faith :). But
developing a product is much more than choosing the value of a resistor.
The choice of which kind of product with which features to develop can IM=
O
very well be influenced by beliefs and ideologies. The many choices of ho=
w
to exercise the profession usually is -- no matter whether you're an
engineer or an MD.

> That's why I'm talking that virtual professional EE world is
> ideology-free, that is, it's different to real-life world.=20

If it were, we wouldn't need James to make sure we don't stray from the
permitted path :)

Gerhard


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