Peter Sommer

Background

About Peter Sommer

I'll let you in on a little secret - Engineering is super easy - Yes, easy! A majority of engineering problems can be solved with a handful of basic equations, that you learned doing science and math class in elementary school. Knowing this, 3 questions probably comes to mind:"Why do we have an engineering department, when problems easily could be solved by HR?""How are engineers able to keep this secret from the rest of us?""Why do we need a engineer then?" The answer to question 1 is a no-brainer: HR is just to busy recruiting engineers. Answer 2 require a little inside knowledge about education. When new students start the engineering education, the first week is spend on revising knowledge (from elementary school) on natural science. The rest of the education is spend learning to speak about things in technical terms, sounding really cool and difficult, and learning the art of presenting stuff in the most obscene ways to impress HR and Management, and to convince the world that engineering is difficult. As for question 3, I will start by directing you attention to answer 1 - HR are to busy to find time for your engineering problems as well. Furthermore, although the engineering problems themselves are simple to solve, seeing the problem, isolate it, and modelling it to fit the simple equations from natural science can be a challenge that require many years of experience. So now, before you all gung-ho run down to HR with all your engineering tasks, ask yourself this question:"can I wait 10 years for HR to develop the experience required to see, isolate, and model engineering problems?" If Not, you better stick to your guns and hire some more engineers. Mechanical engineer with a systematic approach to any problem presented. Have the ability to improvise and adapt and therefore navigate well in volatile environments. Can work focused and structured, also towards blurry and wake defined objectives.