My approach to engineering craft has evolved to knowing when the easy solution exists and grabbing that instead of going with a complicated solution. Sometimes that’s a hack or sometimes it’s a different perspective. A newbie’s perspective can often provide that different perspective. Within my first week at Intel I surprisingly contributed immediately to my…
Month: May 2018
Six Months to Satisfaction- Large Team Frustrations
Q: What’s your most frustrating experiences as an engineer? A: Basically not being listened to. Like most people as an engineer not being listened to ranks up at the top of my frustration. While it’s easy to manage this in a one on one working relationship it becomes much harder in a larger team. Let…
A Difference in Ovens
I first heard this story as part of Kwabena’s presentation on OpenMV, a camera board. He spoke at the Oct 2016 Open Source Hardware Summit in Portland Oregon. As he described the path from idea to product I had an inkling this would be a good story for The Engineers’ Daughter. –Anne Meixner Ibrahim dreamed…
The Unexpected Summer of Three Interns
In my engineering career the number three comes up often. A good software engineer goes through loops at least 3 times to check their software. You need to ask a manager three times to get the approval to do something new. One summer three interns came under my tutelage. That year our group could hire…