Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Doty wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Rick Collins wrote:
>
> > Oh, I almost forgot, NEVER ask a PhD "anything" to design PCBs.  What the
> > heck are you thinking???
>
> Speaking as a physicist, let me comment.
>
> 1. Learning to do a variety of engineering tasks is an important part of an
> experimental physicist's education. A good experimental physicist must be a
> more versatile engineer than most engineering specialists. This is exactly
> the kind of job a  Ph.D. student *should* be doing.
>
> 2. The specific problem mentioned was a "super noiseless detector circuit".
> Few EE's understand detector physics or noise physics well enough to tackle
> this.

Most PHDs when challenged to do something outside of a pretty narrow field,
might as well be qualified as a Post-Hole Digger.


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