ENGINEERS!

[rhino]

People who went to school for actual useful knowledge. I stand in awe.

Whoa! WHOA! No one said anything about "useful!" Let's not get crazy.

 

[JettaKnight]

Electrical Engineering, Purdue, 2007.

Of course, most people equate this with 'electrician' or 'lineman'.

"Well, I'm not actually an electr- <sigh> Yeah, it's fine, I'll take a look at your panel."

I spent some time working with an electrical contractor before getting my BSEE, so I can handle it. Now I work on controls for 480 VAC.

 

[451_Detonics]

My Grandfather was a Mine Safety Engineer for Peabody, was in Harlen during the Harlen County War. We visited there years later and I was asked what side he had been on...not sure there was a right answer to that question...lol.

 

[JettaKnight]

NERDS!

Then I think my degree is the nerdiest.
M.S. Systems Engineering.

"What do you do?"
"I produce paper."
"Oh, like Dunder Mifflin?"
"No, I spend my day writing documents - product requirements, work breakdowns, concept of operations, risk assessments, product life analysis, trade studies, system engineering plans, configuration management, specif...HEY! Did you fall asleep?"

 

[chipbennett]

Horrors! You should never give anything to an engineer for repair, and especially do not give a perfectly good device to an engineer for him to "examine" or "play with." You want it fixed, give it to a technician, he's not near as likely to try to "improve" it or add a death ray or some such. If it is not broken, an engineer will take it apart "just to see" and it will never quite work right again. Especially since he reprogrammed it to emit a death ray when you hold the select and option buttons simultaneously. Be careful where you point that thing.

how dare you, sir.

I mean, a lot of that is sort of true... but I still say how dare you.

Indeed.

Everyone knows the button combination is UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A.

 

[chipbennett]

Combat ENGINEERS!!!! Fort Lenard Wood

I'm over here in St. Louis. You mind coming to do some overwatch?

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

MSBA!

It doesn't have the same ring to it...never mind.

 

[rhino]

First nerdy idea:

We need an INGO pocket protector:

Pocket Protector with 1 3/4" Flap | Custom Bags | 0.24 Ea.

 

[JettaKnight]

Horrors! You should never give anything to an engineer for repair, and especially do not give a perfectly good device to an engineer for him to "examine" or "play with." You want it fixed, give it to a technician, he's not near as likely to try to "improve" it or add a death ray or some such. If it is not broken, an engineer will take it apart "just to see" and it will never quite work right again. Especially since he reprogrammed it to emit a death ray when you hold the select and option buttons simultaneously. Be careful where you point that thing.

Indeed.

Everyone knows the button combination is UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A.

I can only imagine how many devices out there use that to access a "technicians mode".


There is an old saw, "shoot the engineer and ship the product" that rings all too true.

 

[88GT]

I'm the proxy for Mr88GT, astro/aeronautical engineer.

 

[Hornett]

ENGINEERS!
Purdue University BSMET
I know it's a technology degree, but I hold a PE in 9 states so, yeah, there's that.
I design natural stone cladding and it's attachments.
Being in Bedford, the Limestone Capitol of the World, that shouldn't surprise anyone.
Jagee looks at dirt, I look at rocks.

 

[HoughMade]

I was raised by a pretty clever engineer, I have proof.

United States Patent: 6261522

United States Patent: 5165078

United States Patent: 4526568

United States Patent: 4464170

I have a soft spot in my head for you guys.

My Dad started his career in surface to air missiles and ended in medical devices.

 

[PaulF]

Engineers!!?!?!

The mortal enemy of technicians...you guys are the reason my hands are 90% scar tissue.

I believe all (mechanical) engineers should have to spend time on the service line before they are set free to cram components into designs wherever AutoCad claims they'll fit.

Well, at least I have you all in one place...time to cluster ban everyone!

 

[lovemywoods]

Long ago just after the slide rule, during computer punch cards, and as personal computers were coming on the scene, I graduated from the then all male Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a BS in chemical engineering. Ta-da....

 

[pudly]

Punch cards?! That new fangled stuff... Try punch tape.

 

[HoughMade]

Engineers!!?!?!

The mortal enemy of technicians...you guys are the reason my hands are 90% scar tissue.

I believe all (mechanical) engineers should have to spend time on the service line before they are set free to cram components into designs wherever AutoCad claims they'll fit.

Well, at least I have you all in one place...time to cluster ban everyone!

In the old days, that's the way a lot of engineers came up.

My Dad went to electronic school in the '50s and became a technician, then worked his way through the ranks and was an engineer at Bendix by the late '60s building guidance control systems for missiles, then building medical devices at Miles, then Bayer (do the Glucometer or the insulin pump ring a bell).

My Dad frequently spoke about his issues with the young guys just out of college, even graduate school, not knowing how to do what he did with his high school diploma and DeVry certificate.

 

[chipbennett]

Long ago just after the slide rule, during computer punch cards, and as personal computers were coming on the scene, I graduated from the then all male Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a BS in chemical engineering. Ta-da....

Another Rose ChemE?

By the way: my freshman year (1995) was the first co-ed year.

 

[chipbennett]

My Dad frequently spoke about his issues with the young guys just out of college, even graduate school, not knowing how to do what he did with his high school diploma and DeVry certificate.

Same with my dad. He never got a degree, and was more intelligent and skilled than his degreed peers. Of course, he worked for DOD, which means that the less-capable ones got the promotions over him, merely because they had degrees.

 

[HoughMade]

Same with my dad. He never got a degree, and was more intelligent and skilled than his degreed peers. Of course, he worked for DOD, which means that the less-capable ones got the promotions over him, merely because they had degrees.

Apparently, that happened in the private sector too...according to my Dad. His advice- go to college, not necessarily because of what you will learn....it's great system we've built here.

 

[rosejm]

Finally, a place for us Enginerds!

B.S. ChemE, RHIT, 2000

So many Rose alums, and surprisingly enough I even find a fellow Pike alum. And I even met this one in a previous life!
B.S. CS/CE - 2001


As for the Engineer haters, we're not all bad. Some of us actually enjoy the physical side of the designs. Makes it easier to build something that requires some intelligence to disassemble. That keeps the riff-raff out of the mechanical bits.

-- NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE --