Do You Keep an Engineering Notebook?

By Ian S.
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  1. 1. Do You Keep an active Engineering Notebook?

    • Yes
      3
    • No
      6

  2. 2. Did you previously have an Engineering Notebook (with date and signatures at the bottom and crossing out blank space)?

    • Yes
      1
    • No
      8

  3. 3. Does your company require you have some time of Notebook?

    • Yes, paper or Digital
      1
    • Yes, paper only
      0
    • Yes, digital only
      1
    • No
      7

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Ian S.

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I would like to know how strict companies have on Engineering Notebook policies, honestly I have only seen them during early computer/engineering days and in Engineering classes at school. They do not let me use OneNote, do companies (that do require you to keep an engineering notebook) let it be digital?

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Ian S.

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I think you should ask to specific people belong to Specific engineering companies?

I just vote for No No & No.

I expect most people on Neowin to be some type of engineer.
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Grand Master

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I keep a spreadsheet listing any non-routine computer problems, how I resolved them, and what reference materials I used in the process. Although I'm not as diligent with recording the service calls in it as I should be.

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Astra.Xtreme

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As an engineer, I do keep one.  I'm not required to by my company, but it certainly helps for historical records sake.

 

More importance is put on the product design process and documenting everything precisely to follow ISO protocols.

Audits are done periodically, so it's important to have a documented process and then follow it consistently.

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Draconian Guppy

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LOL I understand.

 

I used to work for a civil engineering company... that I used to draft and work on autoCAD years ago. The boss keeps the notes, blueprints, and CAD drawings for future references or modifications.

Well civil engineering then... :p

 

Cause I studied environmental engineering and never seen teh above :laugh:

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+Raphaël G. MVC

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My company doesn't require me to, but I keep my own digital notes or all sorts of problems I had to solve. I even created my own note keeping application for that  (I'm a nerd like that too :rofl: ). It allows me too quickly search through all my past experience and makes me seem even smarter :).

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