In 1960, as a young mechanical engineer, Valdiserri was hired on at National Steel's Great Lakes division as midnight shift construction engineer on the blast furnace.

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In 1960, as a young mechanical engineer, Valdiserri was hired on at National Steel's Great Lakes division as midnight -shift construction engineer on the blast furnace.

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Nonetheless, he did recommend some regulatory and system changes to help engineer this cultural shift needed.

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This shift allowed him to serve as chief software engineer but also to take on outside consulting projects.

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The big shift here for the tech savvy crowd is what we must recognize as the end of the era of the engineer.

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