Nov 04, 2026
"Why change!” This is the refrain I often heard at the start of my career. At the time I was asking the firm I worked at to move from manual hand calculations to 2D digital analysis software. There was plenty of resistance — most borne from the senior engineer’s lack of experience and understanding of the tools. Before anyone trusted ‘the software’, I had to check its results against the hand methods we already understood…and let me tell you...