Profit from Your Bad Experiences Flops and flubs frequently can foster future successes

摘要

ENGINEERING SCHOOLS are much better at including solids processing in the curriculum than they were when I taught.Unlike other colleges then,at least my university had more than one type of crystallizer.Our methods were crude but stressed fundamentals that later served us well.For example,I assigned an experiment that required getting the flow rate of a slurry using an instrument in the process.My challenge to the class was:How do we know if the instrument is accurate? My students thought it over and finally,in despair,concluded that the old bucket-and-stopwatch method would work.They had travelled all the way from the Otient to apply the same method used at home.Don't dwell on the negative in such situations,though-knowing the basis of your actions actually makes a bad experience a good one.We must look at those past episodes to progress,especially in solids processing.