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John Tugwell
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Dennis Klinger
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Answer to I am going to step into my 2nd year of electronics engineering. What should I do in order to become a great electronics engineer and have deeper understanding of subjects? Also mention some prerequisites? by Sanjay Kumar https://lnkd.in/gHP8M8Ms #embedded #electronics #students
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Stephen Braham
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Patrick Forgione, MSE
Put the SE back in MBSE In the engineering community, the mention of MBSE is usually tied to keywords like SysML, Cameo, MagicDraw, and other mentions to the numerous other platforms. Don't get me wrong, I have been a Cameo/MagicDraw user for over 10 years and will continue to champion those platforms (maybe a bit of bias)...but MBSE is not the tool, it is not the platform, and it not the language. MBSE is Systems Engineering that caught on to using digital tools much like Mechanical Engineering (CAD) and Electrical Engineering (ETAP)...however it got caught up in itself by becoming encompassed by the tools they use. This isn't a shaming post; far from it. What I am striving to do is bring back what it means to be a Systems Engineer back into our modeling practices. Bring back the importance of systems thinking and critical thinking, bring back asking "why"...especially before we open the modeling tool to get to work, and...with absolute emphasis on this...bring back communication. Our jobs as Systems Engineers isn't necessarily to know everything, but to know everyone. We need to understand our stakeholders and understand all of their requirements...not just the system requirements. We must be asking these questions and doing our due diligence first before we even start thinking of what kinds of SysML elements we might be using. I can tell you that I have an Excel file, almost 20mb in size (and growing), on brainstorming and organizing my thoughts on my current program before I even open Cameo. Consider it a whiteboard session for myself but I truly advise you all to get your thoughts in order and to speak to people before you go and model. The biggest battle we face in MBSE is getting that buy-in from leadership/management on how effective we are and the value that modeling brings. Though, if we lack those communication skills and don't network within our stakeholders, we will continue to face that resistance. We must grow that trust, form the necessary bonds between your teams, and, with those "soft skills" you'll find that your MBSE approaches are more welcomed. I leave with a quote from the #incose SEBoK - "Systems thinking is concerned with understanding or intervening in problem situations, based on the principles and concepts of the systems paradigm (https://lnkd.in/e9NsQs2M)". The keyword I want to highlight there is "problem". If we don't understand the problem, if we don't care to ask qualifying questions, and if we don't organize these thoughts effectively then the model is just another collection of pretty pictures.
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Nicklas Bergman
What's the best training environment for autonomous vehicles? "Bad driving is probably playing a bigger role in the fatality rate than larger cars and longer journeys." This article from Financial Times and John Burn-Murdoch about the crazy US traffic we've all (?) experienced made me think about the development of autonomous vehicles. Companies like Tesla and Waymo are preferably training their autonomous systems on US roads, and now I understand why! It's because they want their systems to be trained under the most difficult circumstances. or It's because a sub-par autonomous driving system can excel among bad US drivers, and it's the fastest way to market acceptance. Either way, as Europeans, we should be grateful that the systems are trained on US roads, where many distracted drivers create fringe situations that would never happen in other parts of the world. Car manufacturers send their development teams to the Nordics to test winter behavior before sending them to the US to get road rage training data... #autonomuscars #fsd #ai #automotive https://lnkd.in/dU7MqW2y
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