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Originally Posted by fanaudical
Agreed - Most "users" no longer understand the concepts behind how their technology works (at least in my profession). I've had the pleasure of reviewing a few FEA calcs by "experienced engineers" in the past year where the proposed answers were bordering outlandish. (Nobody did an "easy calc verification" to check reasonableness of their results.)
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One of the best thinks I took away from my engineering career was to give everything the smell test which is what I was taught to call the "easy calc verification". I've taught that to my employees, and it gives me pleasure to hear one of them ask the other, "OK, but how does it smell?"