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Scheduling : Experience vs Education

Dr. Mubarak answers the question: "Is it experience in the field that makes a great scheduler or credentials and education?"

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Do you acquire the knowledge in these three by education and experience? In fact, this is one of my interesting points and I wrote an article about it. Education is not experience and experience is not education. There is a difference between the two. I taught in college years and I told my students, "When you graduate from college with a bachelor degree and then you go to the field, you're going to have education with no experience, and you're going to see a foreman who does not have college degree, maybe not even high school, but he has 30 years of experience."

How would you put these together? Well, in brief here, experience actually tells you what and education tells you why. All right. So a person with experience, he knows that we do the formwork this way and then we put the rebar in certain way and then how we place the concrete and so on. He knows the what, but an educated person can say, "I know why we put the bars in the bottom in the middle of the span of the beams because we have a positive moment.

And that means the tension is at the bottom of the beams and concrete cannot take tension. That's why the rebar can take..." You know, can explain all that. So this is something...a combination of education experience and I think it's very important. And that's why in the United States, in most companies, the PE license, for example, or the architect...

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