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Fish_in_a_Barrel
Joined: 30 Sep 2006
Posts: 673
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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*Job Info*
I think the main benifit is those lovely "non-technical" (HR has these words drummed into my head) skills that you need to build a sucessful bot. Things like planning, cost estimation, meeting deadlines, teamwork, creative thinking, etc.
Having all skills like materials knowledge, structural, mech, elec engineering and cadding are great, but it's quite unlikely to find a job which requires all of them put together. Unless you move into a prototyping lab/inventor type role, you will need to specialise. (I just remembered that I have met a few people with a Phisical Engineering degree which encompasses a bit of everything. Most of the people I know with this degree are working at the Lions Eye Institute as interns)
*Personal Rant*
Being one of those techinical types is great, but practical knowledge is invaluable. The inherited teachings of repair jobs has fallen away in our society.
i.e. We have a yearly local electrathon, in which you build a go-cart and see how many laps you can do in an hour. Most people use bike parts & tyres. I think that I was the only person in our team of four (except out lecturer, who was otherwise occupied), who knew how to repair a puncture. And I knew of other teams where the kids had no idea, relying on their teachers incase of a tire problem.
We need to get the future of our society away from computers and back into the real world, before the only way to solve a problem is to call someone on your mobile phone and pay them with your credit card, which you can't pay off since you rely on paying everyone else to fix things.
We need to encourage people to do less buying and more building. We need more of those hand crafted bots that are made out of spare parts to get people saying "I never thaught of using it that way, I could do that but make it better by ..." Which should get people out of our disposable, consumorism based society , which is currently on the road to ruin.
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