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on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:01AM
from the if-it-walks-like-a-duck,-sinks-like-a-duck,-oh,-wait... dept.
from the if-it-walks-like-a-duck,-sinks-like-a-duck,-oh,-wait... dept.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
The duck boat that sank in a Missouri lake last week, killing 17 people, was built based on a design by a self-taught entrepreneur who had no engineering training, according to court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
The designer, entrepreneur Robert McDowell, completed only two years of college and had no background, training or certification in mechanics when he came up with the design for "stretch" duck boats more than two decades ago, according to a lawsuit filed over a roadway disaster in Seattle involving a similar duck boat in 2015.
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Duck Boat in Missouri Disaster was Designed by Entrepreneur With no Engineering Training
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 27 2018, @12:25AM
Well, when I say degrees, I'd rather have actual practical knowledge than degrees any day. I know far too many engineers who essentially purchased their degrees and can't explain much less perform an integral to save their lives.
I knew an engineer with zero college who did metalwork design, knew his cad inside and out, could calculate a load with the best of 'em. That was in the '90s, I think the may have been the last of his kind - so many degreed engineers out of work who can get the job first, especially in big corporations which demand such things.
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