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  The Making of an Expert Engineer: Reviews
  I am reaching out to express my admiration for your book. I'm a computer scientist working for a research-focused company (our output is generally research prototypes for our clients), but my original degree is in mechanical engineering, and what you've written certainly resonates with my experience as a practicing engineer.
  Even working in a company that is structured more like a think tank than a product company, I've found myself pointing out to junior research engineers that they need to get used to the fact that they're going to spend about half their time in formal or informal discussions with colleagues and stakeholders trying to figure out "Just what are we doing for the client?" and the related question "Do we all have the same mental model of what we're doing for the client?" I love how you've taken the care and the time to surface all the unspoken and tacit aspects of engineering practice – it's been a pleasure to read (and reread!) your book.