[SBE] Discussion topics

[Ted Randall]

Re: Jeff Carters comment.

When we were younger we heard about a generation gap.
What we have now is a generation crisis!
It's a lot like ham radio. It will be extinct if it does not bloom again.
It's like working satellites.
It's cool when you first do it today but all the work it takes to make a 5
minute contact.
Ham satellites is old technology to my two sons.
It's all wireless and online.
What is good about a discussion group like this is they can learn. Here in
this group are engineers that know an incredible amount of things that they
have never been exposed to.
You may have a dozen threads going at one time.
They can learn about Blaw Knox towers and see some of the same guys teasing
and cutting up.
The younger engineer is missing the exposure that can be had by reading a
group like this.
Straight dry information is not enough.
The information and the human side that is available here is something that
no formal education could touch.
This is the stuff that will draw younger engineers into the fold.
So hats off to Chris for starting this thing even though it may not be going
as planned.
Does anything special in life ever go as planned?

I never post and neither do they .... we just read.
They both met Jack Layton a few years back and they were in awe.
The guys like Jack and "a lot of the lighter stuff" is what keeps them
reading.
This kind of online group is what can narrow the generation crisis and allow
them to meet some of the greatest minds that make up broadcasting.

My only problem is they will read this and I will have to listen to them
call me "old man" for the next month or more!
Interacting with each other is what is cool about this group!
I believe it's good for the young at heart.

Ted Randall
Past Chapter Chair
Nashville Chapter 103


-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Carter
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:00 PM
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: Re: [SBE] Discussion topics

At 40, I am somewhere in the middle, but I accept your sons'
assessment as accurate.  It potentially spells the end of the
organization, too, if you think about it.  If younger engineers are
not interested in an organization they see as stodgy and ossified or
maybe even irrelevant, and all the current membership retires, what is
to become of the SBE?  Many national organizations are facing the same
challenge, I'm sure.

Are there any figures on what percentage of current SBE members are
within five years of retirement?  Ten years?  It goes by rather
quickly...and then what?

Jeff
Atlanta


>From: "Ted Randall" <engineering at accessnashville.com>

>Subject: Re: [SBE] Discussion topics

>I have two sons in engineering.

>One Matt 23 chief engineer for Dave Ramsey the other 27 chief engineer for

>Travecca University.

>Both are much younger than most of us and they constantly complain about

SBE

>being stuff and boring.

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