Frontiers of Engineering Reports on Leading Edge Engineering from the 1997 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (1998) / Chapter Skim
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In just the past few months, NATO signed a new partnership agreement with its former Cold War adversary Russia, and Hong Kong reverted back to China. The Internet and CNN link us daily to other cultures and continents even to outer space.
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He hired Tsu Wong as the company's first aeronautical engineer to replace Boeing's original business partner, Conrad Westerveldt. An engineering graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tsu Wong became the first chief engineer at Boeing.
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They helped a lot, and they helped with literally thousands of things: reading lights that can be easily changed in flight and understanding that a latch, designed to be operated by a 99 percentile-sized human finger, didn't work with a glove on in minus 15 degrees at Chicago's O'Hare airport in January. We learned that it's worthwhile to listen closely to the customer.
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but airplanes are different," we would not be improving the Boeing production system today. During that visit to Toyota a few years ago, we learned that we could never again say "but we're different." The ability to think differently about ourselves, to continuously learn allows us to change.
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