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- From: tylerh@cco.caltech.edu (Tyler R. Holcomb)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr
- Subject: Re: Definition needed: Control Engineering
- Date: 14 Oct 1992 17:18:08 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- kfseefel@mtu.edu (KURT F. SEEFELDT) writes:
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- >In article <92286.130554E59140@TRMETU.BITNET> <E59140@TRMETU.BITNET> writes:
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- >>Can any of you control engineers out there supply me with a layman
- >>definition of the profession? I myself have taken courses in the
- >>subject but I need to have a definition to give people from a non-
- >>technical background; a text book one, of which I have several, will
- >>not do. Please e-mail to avoid cluttering the newsgroup.
- >>
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- >A discussion of this on the net would help.
-
- Okay - here is my $0.02
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- 1. Using computers to make machines work better.
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- 2. Making manufacturing more efficient without REPLACing
- the EQUIPMENT.
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- As you can see, I do *process* control; I suspect our
- friends in aerospace and electrical engineering will
- find these descriptions too narrow and/or inappropriate
- for their work.
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