Is electrical engineering moving fast?

# Are Engineers Who Specialize More Successful?
- Test of a real (generalist) engineer is how well you would do in Connecticut Yankee
- IEEE awards go to specialists
- IEEE fellows are specialists
- Perhaps in engineering generalists are nice to haves 
- References [[Range]
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# Is electrical engineering moving fast?
* [[Are Engineers Who Specialize More Successful?]]
* [[Specialists create knowledge within fields]]
           


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Modularization allows different groups to work on different pieces

§Specialists vs. Generalists

Fast moving fields have lots of unconnected nodes

Slow moving fields are almost “fully connected”

Modularizing ideas and specialization are the same thing

# Specialists create knowledge within fields
[[Connections create new knowledge]] and specialists connect the knowledge within a field. 

Specialists are the people who make [[Learning by doing]]  happen.  [[Learning by doing does not require explicit out-of-system knowledge]]. 

[[The difference between specialists and generalists is fractal in nature]]

### Related
- [[Modularization allows different groups to work on different pieces]] - modularlzation is the process of creating a new field or specialization 
- Contrast with [[Generalists create connections between high-degree nodes]]

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