Engineers Unite!

[UTfball68]

Alright...maybe all engineers aren't that bad...

 

[a_kelley]

I think most engineers would design everything to be easily serviced except for that profitably and production speed trumps ease of service. Of course sometimes design prerequisites complex service procedures simply due to design constraints. Maybe one day I'll go back to get that ece degree instead of busting my knuckles and back on any mechanical thing.... But then again, I am not certain I could be strictly a design engineer because I enjoy being different places doing different things. Unfortunately, I don't think any occupation can offer significantly different things for an extended period of time. For me the challenge of making/repairing something unlike others is part of my desire to do it.

Engineering, it's not a career, it's a way of life.

 

[MtnNut]

Went the cheap route and got a AAS in Mechanical Engineering Tech from Forsyth Tech. Can't complain at all about my degree got a job 2 weeks out of school. I ended up on the structural side detailing steel for pre-engineered buildings (Varco Pruden). As the senior engineers here say "we design to a 1/16", the shop hacks to a 1/4", then the builder beats to an 1" and that's why whats on my screen never looks like what an unhappy builder sends me pictures of.

 

[Decomp]

My wife, her twin and all her friends are engineers. They're electrical, radio, chemical, thermo, and mechanicals. I get lost at every dinner we go to, they always speak in acronyms. Its like eating dinner with someone telling a joke in another language. I'm always the only one not laughing or understanding the joke.

 

[a_kelley]

As the senior engineers here say "we design to a 1/16", the shop hacks to a 1/4", then the builder beats to an 1"

Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe - unknown source

 

[BrianGreen]

Seems like an appropriate place to leave this...

 

[a_kelley]

Civil engineers build targets
Mechanical engineers build propulsion/war heads
Computer/electrical engineers build guidance systems.
- quote from my father (DoD ECE)

Social engineers get what they want.

 

[VortecJeep]

Civil engineers build targets
Mechanical engineers build propulsion/war heads
Computer/electrical engineers build guidance systems.
- quote from my father (DoD ECE)

Social engineers get what they want.

In my freshman engineering class, we learned
If you can see it and it doesn't move - civil
If you can see it and it does move - mechanical
If you can't see it but it can kill you - electrical