@thomasfuchs It counts for both software engineering and the various physical engineering disciplines.
Learning your chops on “sustaining work” means that you learn the products COLD. You have seen all of the stupid shit, found all of the dumb loopholes to close, and have a deeper understanding of the interactions that can come into play. It genuinely makes you a better engineer.
@DarcMoughty Rando PP and PE can be done with short chain polycarbons, totally. My consumer grade plastic crap isn’t going anywhere (though I’m interested to see if we turn more towards textiles and composites).
The really crazy boutique stuff, like liners and substrates in biologics for example, where we haven’t figured out alternate long polycarbon chain sources, worries me a bit more.
@DarcMoughty Actually, @jimcarroll— might be an interesting topic for you to discuss. The future of materials and how that affects non-technical folks.
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