"Dan Luke" wrote

I blame the engineering schools. IMO, a degreed EE ought to have
experience installing electrical gear and making it work before he
graduates, and a new ME ought to have spent a couple of summers working
construction for a mechanical contractor.

And an architect should have to build houses, or something for at least a
year.

I couldn't tell you how many house plans I have built that were physically
impossible to build, as they were drawn, and I'm not talking simple typo's
or dimension mistakes, either.
--
Jim in NC