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Month: January 2019

The Importance of Dirty Hands

January 31, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

My dear friend Octave’s account of his co-op experience (see Tuesday’s 1-29 post) reinforces my belief that no one should trust an engineer or designer […]

From Co-op to Vice President: Octave A. LaBath

January 30, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

I was attending the University of Cincinnati in the college of engineering. After my freshman year in 1960, I started my co-op job with the […]

Old Methods to Teach New Technology

January 24, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

For most of human history, skills were passed from one generation to the next by some form of apprenticeship. Only in the last couple of […]

Retail Management Career to Gear Manufacturing: Who Would Have Guessed?

January 22, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

In 2012, Rj Link International hired Matt Rossiter as a gear machinist and entered him into the Rock River Valley Tooling & Machining Association Apprenticeship […]

Lessons Learned the Hard Way

January 18, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

Chris’ account of putting aside his original goals to continue his father’s firm reminded me of an interesting story about an early co-worker in development […]

Getting into the Gear Trade: Chris Trochelman

January 18, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

Here is the first of our guest blogs on the topic of how you entered the gear trade. Chris Trochelman (pictured above, far left) would […]

The Journey Continues

January 10, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

An apprentice gets to ask lots of questions. The person responding to those questions determines whether you feel empowered to keep asking. Most of my […]

Luck of the Draw

January 8, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

Forty-eight years ago, I was finishing my freshman year at a community college. I was on the Dean’s List but I was also broke, working […]

How Did You Get in Here?

January 3, 2019 Charles D. Schultz 0

Happy New Year! In just a few weeks we will begin our SIXTH year of this blog. While it has been great fun posting about […]

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