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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 586901" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>You know guys, I can understand why you are all so negative about the IE department in the districts. I am totally disgusted with what IE has become. It sure wasn't that way when I was in there.</p><p></p><p>HOWEVER,</p><p></p><p>Almost every innovation we have done as a company in the last 25 years has come from internal engineers, usually IE's and some PE's, from scanning to DIADs to Worldport. I was blessed to be involved in many of those projects. In 1980, almost 30 years ago, I worked on a prototype 'computerized time study board' that foreshadowed the DIAD. Miniature chips and computers weren't small enough to make it real. Ditto for bar code scanners. UPS was ahead of the technology curve, and actually had to wait for the technology to catch up to our ideas.</p><p></p><p>We are still hiring engineers in Louisville; we have the Metro College program, and it has been very successful in providing college degrees to kids who otherwise had no chance of getting a degree, in a state that ranks near the bottom in college degrees per capita.</p><p></p><p>We need to continue to encourage innovation from within. Even though we may hire outside companies to do the manufacturing for scanners and DIADs, the ideas came from within.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 586901, member: 4932"] You know guys, I can understand why you are all so negative about the IE department in the districts. I am totally disgusted with what IE has become. It sure wasn't that way when I was in there. HOWEVER, Almost every innovation we have done as a company in the last 25 years has come from internal engineers, usually IE's and some PE's, from scanning to DIADs to Worldport. I was blessed to be involved in many of those projects. In 1980, almost 30 years ago, I worked on a prototype 'computerized time study board' that foreshadowed the DIAD. Miniature chips and computers weren't small enough to make it real. Ditto for bar code scanners. UPS was ahead of the technology curve, and actually had to wait for the technology to catch up to our ideas. We are still hiring engineers in Louisville; we have the Metro College program, and it has been very successful in providing college degrees to kids who otherwise had no chance of getting a degree, in a state that ranks near the bottom in college degrees per capita. We need to continue to encourage innovation from within. Even though we may hire outside companies to do the manufacturing for scanners and DIADs, the ideas came from within. [/QUOTE]
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