Originally Posted by
Phantoj
You can become an engineer without learning finite elements, just as you can practice as an engineer without performing any finite element analysis.
Solving finite element models "by hand" ? I hope they at least let you use a slide rule.
True, but it's nice to know how to do it before you let the computer do it for you, otherwise we're glorified drafters.
I never had to do FEA as an engineer either... most of my stuff was thermo (semiconductors). Now I'm a bureaucrat.
I actually have a slide rule, but lost it somewhere.