University of Missouri College of Engineering - Shamrock Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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3 g1L:3'3i Y- l l' l l' l 1 l , 1 111 1 l l 1 1 1 1 gl 1 1 l ll 1 1 h ,'1 li 1 li l, 1, ly: ll 1 1 li 1 1 112 1 I 1 l ly R ' 1 1 1i l 1 1 il l 1 A hit or miss attitude while in college, a willingness to bc merely one in the group, a blindness to the growing industrial competition from foreign countries is likely to affect adversely the individual achievement of every young American. ' ON THE JOB By Pnoivlzsson R. XV. SELVIUGE There is a popular notion that when one graduates from thc engineering school he is a com Jetent en rineer but it takes the vounfr raduate only a short time to find l E- 1 . ra S . that there is little 'ustification for this idea. He soon discovers that his colle 'e . 233- trainin ' furnished him onlv the fundamental tools of his irofession. Practice on the S . l job is necessary to develop judgment and skill in their use. It has been said that an engineci- receives his training in the school, but his education on the job. Tl1c1'e is much justification in this statement if' we mean by education the ability to appraise a situation correctly and to do the right thing at the right time. The young engineer who starts out with definite plans for developing this ability is well on the road to SIICCCSS. Careful observation is one of the most helpful means of doing this. Every task in which human labor is involved, however menial, is worthy of his attention with the view of improving the method of doing l.he job. Nearly every day offers an opportunity to learn something worth while, and the young engineer who daily enters in his diary the things that he learns that day will soon find that many things of value pass by thc average person unnoticed. In a short time he will find, also, that he has increased his powers ol' careful observa- tion and has accumulated a store of valuable ideas which will enable him to give wise judgments in future situations. Page 56 Q , -6 L flee, f ' f, , ,ml f, 1 rf W. fi' s 1- za 1 'J eil -' ,g1rw,U, eq.- 7 1-4. .Mi