The Knights Templars came into my mind. After the call last week with a recruiter. Of course she was seeking to understand my competences. What makes me stand out.
The role she was recruiting for was of a specialist in design engineering for a large aerospace company.
So, design engineering can be done on various levels of proficiency.
It can start knowing the common industrial parameters and having learned how to operate a CAD software.
But design engineering can go very deep.
To not only understand the characteristics of materials, processes and mechanics. But to be even able to model this accurately and use performance operations on them. Such as optimization techniques. Or FEM. Or custom tailored simulation methods.
With results able to boost the product to new spheres.
This is touching the edge of engineering, and computer science comes into play. Sometimes, this is called computational mechanics. “Deep design engineering” would be an accurate term as well.
Where mechanical engineering unites with computer science, is where my core competence can be located.
I kept pondering about this concept a little and then it struck me:
The Knights Templars.
An early example of a unification of two fields which were distinguisehdly separate before.
They were (elite) warriors.
And they were monks.
“WHAT?? Monks that are warriors???” 😵
This was such a novelty back then, that many people had a hard time comprehending this.
The result? It made them unstoppable.
Stunning achievements and innovations.
Until envy and betrayal set them an end.