Engineer Engineer How Is Design Process Applied? Poem by Terence George Craddock

WOW! Your engineering series is really intense, well-written, and requires several readings for me. I am enjoying the complexity and the intricacy. Thanks! Milt

I wrote the poem 'Engineering Printing Skills Applied In Practice', inspired by the poem 'Engineer Engineer How Is Design Process Applied? ', by the poet Terence George Craddock.

I have read about microengineering and microbial engineering which includes interesting fields such as biotechnology, which I find really interesting. But I have no practical experience, even by association. To include extended topics would have been too much.

I was more a building services engineer than a research engineer. Design coordinating and commissioning electrical contstruction pronects. My mates from our Harare office worked on the JFK Airport. I was bused practicing poetry instead of working.

I also spent 4 years working in the Ministry of Transport, Marine Division in a workshop; but sometimes working with engineers, doing soundings, on a dredge tug, in the harbour office on rare shifts as a harbour master's assistant. We write best what we actually know and understand, but putting it into words posses the problem, too much knowledge in too small a space.

Yes that was the problem, I started the poem back in September; engineering is complexity intricacy. How do you put 3 dimensional machinery into words and convey complexity because anything less is superficial. I did a 4 year apprenticeship in offset and letterpress printing, some knowledge of machinery, how a printing press works was necessary.