ENGINEERS!

[JettaKnight]

So are the real engineers doing work right now instead of monitoring INGO?



As I type this, I'm hearing The Family Guy playing the office next door and the guy next to me is watching The Flash that he downloaded here with BitTorrent.

 

[rvb]

My first experience as an engineer was gained on HO scale...

Then I got my BSEE from U of Akron ('01) and my MSEE from JHU ('07).
The last few yrs been doing more systems/security engineering.

-rvb

 

[dwh79]

So I guess us technologist don't count? As my grandfather said engineers design the targets technologist blow them up. Or we technologist making the butt hole you engineers draw on paper fart.

 

[hornadylnl]

Here's an ME that needs to call Purdue and demand a refund. I was told that today was the first day this cart was used.

 

[Sgtusmc]

excellent thread for when I need one of ya!

 

[TheUziButton]

I'm a retired mechanical engineer.
Now I just do contract work and fiddle with various projects like this...

 

[wideroad]

BSME - IUPUI (2011)

 

[actaeon277]

Current Student for Industrial Engineering at Purdue.
Navy Nuclear Power Trained

[video=youtube_share;nFbWXuR_2Ow]http://youtu.be/nFbWXuR_2Ow[/video]

I'm a nuke, does that count?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

12B, Combat Engineer.

WE ARE THE ENGINEERS - YouTube

 

[Lectric102002]

BSEE

UNM - 1973

 

[Leadeye]

Retired chemist, now consulting 3 days a week, and no I do not make meth.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

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?"

Uh, yeah, if you could get those TPS reports turned in, that would be great...

EE, primarily test & measurement, especially in RF. That means I calibrate a lot, that kind of thing. I do have enough technician in me I can do component level repair on hugely complex equipment, often with no service manual, and that includes mechanical component fabrication.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Oh, and though I could have had several, I never pursued any patents. I did know the ChemE that held the patent for laboratory synthesis of a form of LSD-25

 

[nascarfantoo]

Class of '78
BS Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois

 

[lovemywoods]

TheUziButton:
You have the coolest toys! You win the internet today!

 

[CountryBoy19]

BSME, Rose-Hulman, 2009

I don't really have one area of focus but mainly I reverse engineer obsolete systems so that replacement parts can be manufactured and effective repair procedures can be implemented for parts that cannot be replaced or are too costly to replace. I do a lot of CAD work etc... I work for a "machine shop" in a sort of way. I do my job so the machinist can do his...

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.

I am an engineer, and I agree with this. Engineers need to cut their teeth in the place where their work dictates how somebody else does their work. Once they understand that they can create more efficient designs. FWIW, I could step onto the machinist floor and do their job ~80% if I had to. My experience in the machine shop allows me to better understand what they are capable of and what makes their job very hard.

Of course, that doesn't mean I'm perfect, I've made a few bonehead designs that made the machinist's life difficult, but I learned from those mistakes...

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.

My dad is also an "engineer without a degree". I cannot credit him enough with the awesome up-bringing I had. I wouldn't be an engineer without all those nights in the farm-shop tinkering around with stuff, with dad right there beside us "making things better" and teaching us what he knows. I can honestly say I don't know half of what that man knows when it comes to hands-on, practical life-skills....

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

Pike Alum here...

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Uh, yeah, if you could get those TPS reports turned in, that would be great...

Don't forget the cover sheet.......................Did you get that Memo?

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I'm not an Engineer, but I work with many of them, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical Design, and Environmental.

I have great respect for Engineers, and I love hanging out with them because it's the one group in which I feel like I can more than hold my own socially.

 

[TaunTaun]

I'm a nuke, does that count?

In my opinion, yes. Nukes are sort of the red-headed step child of engineering. We get to actually work on items like a technician, and we are better educated and knowledgeable in field specific specialties. I'd take a Nuke EM over a EE grad fresh out of college any day of the week for electrical design and help.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

I'm not an Engineer, but I work with many of them, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical Design, and Environmental.

I have great respect for Engineers, and I love hanging out with them because it's the one group in which I feel like I can more than hold my own socially.

Oh you are a sick SICK man! Hahahaha.

By the way did I tell you the difference between an Extroverted engineer and an Introverted engineer? Rhino - HUSH!