Originally Posted by sirrom

I am an IT person myself and my son wants to be the engineer. He said that he wanted to learn how to fix cars and motorcycles and I said to him that it's important that you be able to design parts so please learn how to use programs to design parts. Well he quickly replied, "Well dad how can I design a part if I don't understand how it works in the overall system or understand how it will improve the operation of the system." I had nothing to say to the logic. So I am glad I read what you wrote it kind of reinforces his choice. BTW he is actually a pretty good CAD designer and motorcycle mechanic.