Question

Mason (2010) describes a collection of statistical skills that are typically required of engineers today, sorting them into lists based on whether they might be learned in a single introductory statistics course versus requiring slightly more advanced learning. This class covers almost all of this material, although we don't go as deeply into the more advanced topics. We finished his first basic list last week, and we introduced his most advanced topic (e.g., SPC) very early in this class. Your video project is centered on one aspect of his more advanced list, and we'll introduce many of these topics in the remaining weeks of the class.

Discuss Mason's notion that you are to be an engineer first and a statistician second. What does that mean to you in terms of how you think about the career you are studying to begin, and how do you think this class might impact a job interview you might ultimately go on later in your studies?

Answer 1

I presume that this question is for some application process, Mason directly and strongly suggests that statistics has become one of the strong forces to solve any implicit as well as explicit problems, as we know that engineers of today are well lauded to solve complex problems and they are being employed to make things work in place and with statistics under their belt they have data backed solutions which are more formidable and believable.So it is necessary that engineers of today need to be enculcated with the tinch of statistical knowledge as it is a proven fact that data driven solutions improve a business and helps in revenue growth . So it is necessary to make this understanding of statistics mandatory for almost every engineer, as it will help in enforcing data literacy and get jobs in data backed strategies or an analyst who solves problems with data