Introducing young engineers to the appreciation of magnetic amplifier problems

Young engineers entering a field of electrical development and design probably are equipped with some initial knowledge of that area, but may lack a balanced perspective of the relative significance of phenomena and facts and methods. In fact, they may have altogether immature notions of the ways by which engineering problems are solved. This is particularly true if their college training has been of a dreary ¿learning-by-the-book¿ variety, where procedures and ¿formulas¿ may have been derived or accepted without adequate effort to appreciate their physical significance, limitations and implications, and where so-called problems really may not have extended beyond disguised pretexts for algebraic or arithmetical manipulations within the rigid frame of those formulas.