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Are Germans really the best engineers?
德国人真的是世界上最好的工程师吗？
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Ian Charles, Ph.D. Engineering, Coventry University (1992)
Having lived there for a year or so, I’d say that engineers in Germany are much more highly regarded than they are in the US or the UK. As a ‘Herr Doktor’, my social status was at least the same as that of a physician and, for want of a better description, I ‘outranked’ lawyers and accountants.
As far as engineering competence is concerned though, it’s much harder to be definitive and the following is my sweeping generalisation.
In my experience, the best at the mathematically- challenging bits of engineering such as Computational Fluid Dynamics are the Eastern European nations. The Russians, Poles and Czechs are all very good at hard sums and they are closely followed by the French.
我在德国住了一年左右。我想说，德国的工程师，要比美国和英国的工程师更受尊敬。作为一个工程师，我的社会地位至少跟医师是一样的，简单来说，我的社会地位要高于律师和会计师。
然而，就工程能力来说，很难得出一个准确的答案，所以下面我做了一些概括：
根据我的经验，在那些挑战性的工程数学方面（例如计算流体力学），表现的最好的是那些东欧国家，如俄罗斯人、波兰人和捷克人，紧随他们身后的是法国人。
Gautam Sawala, An Expat in Germany
Having lived and worked in Germany for about 4 years now. I still can’t say if the Germans are the best engineers, but with full confidence I can say, German engineers are most honest engineers. (Except for the VW scandal. That’s a black spot everyone despises.)
Having worked in a company and a startup for a while now. Here are few reason which I feel, promotes engineering advancement:
我在德国工作生活了四年，就这样，我也不敢说德国人是最好的工程师；但我可以满怀信心地说，德国工程师是世界上最诚实的工程师。（除了大众公司的尾气丑闻，这是每个人都会鄙视的污点。）
我曾在德国一家企业和一家创业公司工作过。通过我的体会和观察，我觉得以下几点原因促进了德国工程方面的进步：
There is no false advertising: I’m very much influenced by Indian and American marketing techniques. The best way to attract attention in those markets is to make yourself sound bigger, cheaper and better than your competitors. When I tried to do the same in Germany, it rarely works. I have been warned several times not to boast too much on ads. The German advertisements are usually honest. Thus giving more room for quality product development than throwing money on marketing.
You might have seen BMW and Audi get into ad war in many other countries. This is not allowed in Germany. This indirectly promotes better engineered products.
Fake it till you make it: this principle is core to success, adopted by many. Well it barely works in Germany. Don’t fake it unless you make it. If you can’t make it, go back to drawing board and start again.
德国没有虚假的广告：
我个人深受印度和美国营销方式的影响，在印度和美国市场上，吸引消费者注意的最好方法，就是让你的产品听起来逼格更高，听起来比你的竞争对手的产品更便宜、更好。当我试图在德国做同样的事情的时候，这种方法很少起作用。我多次被警告，不要在广告中夸大宣传。德国的广告一般都是可靠的。这样也就给优质产品的开发提供了更多的空间，而不是将钱过多地花在营销上。
你可能会看到，宝马和奥迪在许多国家都陷入了广告竞争之中，但这在德国是不允许的。这样的规定，也就间接地促进了更好的工程产品。
在许多国家，成功有一条核心的原则：没成功之前，要假装自己很成功。但是，这条原则在德国几乎不起作用。在德国，除非你成功了，否则就不要假装。如果你没成功，就回到制图板上，老老实实地重新开始。
Richard Combs, Just a somewhat retired physicist
Hey there Opey,
No, Germans are not the best engineers. The culture just likes complexity and lives by the rule is three parts can do the job why not use fifteen? However, that said they are very good engineers, just not currently top.
The best engineers currently are:
1 South Korean
2 Japan
3 Those crummy nuclear radical Iranians (not that I’m prejudiced)
4 USA
5 Russia
6 India
7 Finally, those intellectual content stealing buggers, the Chinese (still not prejudiced)
This list changes all the time, depending on how things are working out on the international stage.
嗨，看这里，让我们打开天窗说亮话吧。
我的答案是否定的，德国人并不是最好的工程师。一个国家的文化，就像一个错综复杂的生命有机体。三个人能干的活，为什么不用十五个人来干呢？这么说吧，德国人是优秀的工程师，但是它们在工程文化方面却不是顶级的。
拥有最好工程文化的国家：
1 韩国
2 日本
3 那些在原子能方面采取激进政策的、航脏的伊朗人（不代表我对他们有偏见）
4 美国
German Engineers.
There’s this refrigerator in my family house. My dad bought it while studying in Germany in 1969. The man is no longer with us now (God bless his soul) but that refrigerator is still functioning like a new one and is still the best cooling system in the house. Since I became conscious as a human being, I have never seen that refrigerator develop a fault! The only time we took it to the mechanic’s workshop was to get its rusting parts sanded and resprayed. It has never gone for a gas refill or any form of functional repair whatsoever. And it was made in Western Germany.
至于德国工程师。
我家里有一台冰箱，是我爸1969年在德国学习的时候买的（他现在已经不在了，愿上帝保佑他），虽然过了这么多年，但是这台冰箱还在正常运作着，就像新的一样，它仍然是家里表现最好的冷却系统。自我懂事以来，还从来没见过这台冰箱出过毛病！唯一一次送到修理工那里，还是为了把生锈的部分用砂纸磨掉再喷漆。它从来没有去再加气或者做任何形式的功能修复。对了，它是西德制造的。
Stefan Trifonov, knows German
I can only speak from my personal experience in the field of structural engineering.
About seven years ago I was already a year in in my PhD study in the field of structural behaviour of glass and I had collected a great deal of technical literature in English. It didn't help a lot as most read like the author was bragging about what they knew instead of transfering the knowledge. All nice pictures but little technical content.
对于这个问题，我只能根据我个人在结构工程领域的经验来说一说。
大概七年前，我在玻璃结构领域从事博士研究已经有一年了，在这个过程中，我收集了大量的英文技术文献。但这些文献并没有太大的帮助，大多数作者都在吹嘘他们知道的东西，而不是在传授知识，所有的图片都很漂亮，但是却极少有技术内容。
Then I got the chance to visit a German university for a course and visited the library. This almost random visit turned out to be the turning point of my research. It was like I opened the door to another dimension. Luckily I had not forgotten my high school level German and was able to read some of the books that were not available in English. Fantastic sources- really detailed, research backed, no hidden trade secrets, just pure knowledge. How had I not figured to look for German language sources before?
Fast forward a few years, the spine of my bibliography consists of solid German technical literature.
然后，我因为一门课程有机会访问了一所德国大学，并且去看了他们的图书馆。这次随机的访问几乎是我研究的转折点，为我打开了另一个维度的大门。幸运的是，我没有忘记我在高中学过的德语，因此我能读懂一些没有英语的书籍。这些书真是奇妙的知识来源，知识非常详细，做了充分的研究，没有隐藏的商业秘密，只是纯粹的知识。我以前怎么就没想到寻找德语的文献资源呢？
在接下来的几年里，我的参考书目中，包含了可靠的德国技术文献。
