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The Structural Engineer, Volume 66, Issue 9, 1988
S. B. Tietz & Partners is a medium-sized firm of consulting engineers, with 70% of its work in structural engineering and the rest in civil engineering and traffic. Three Partners and three Associates are responsible for the firm’s management, helped by a partnership administrator and a strong information unit. The firm is 50 or so strong and is almost wholly based on one office.
Mr K. G. Armstrong: One topic not mentioned by the authors is that of examinations. I can remember two goals while studying civil engineering: to learn the subject and to pass the degree examination. Working for these goals pulled one in opposite directions. Learning the subject required slow, quiet consideration of the material presented. Passing the exams required learning the subject very quickly. I decided that this tension could be dealt with only by forgetting the learning and concentrating on passing the exams. The exam would be set by the lecturers concerned, based on the material they had presented. Learn their material, follow their procedures (‘parrot fashion’, if necessary, i.e. usually), and the questions could be answered.