Understanding Engineers [Humor]

Email from an Engineer Friend ^ | 2-27-02 | Anon.

[maxwell]

It's suprising when I pronounce that equation as a word and someone knows what I'm talking about... :)

Yeah or "V = IR"... Or "F = qvB"... Dude! Somebody I can have a conversation with!

From yer handle though it sounds like you might be one a them high energy nuclear-particle geeks... [sigh] You ain't a theorist, god forbid...?

[mrsmith]

Here's a handy placard that design engineers should require for all their products:

ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das machine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben.
Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen.
Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss;
relaxen und watchen das blinkenlighten.

[BigBobber]

An engineer and a mathematician applied for a job at the local factory. After an interview, the applicants were take outside for an employment test. Stopwatch in hand, the interviewer gave both a rope and a bucket, and told them to fetch five gallons of water from a well some distance away.

Trying to look as efficient as possible, the engineer ran down to the well, tied the rope to the bucket, lowered the bucket in the well, retrieved some water, and ran back to the start line with his full bucket of water.

The mathematician, being a clever fellow, also quickly solved the problem and returned with his bucket full.

The interviewer again asked them to get bucket full of water. The engineer just stood and watched as the matematician ran back to the well and dumped the water our of the bucket. Then he pulled up the empty bucket, ran back to the starting point, and untied the rope, setting the empty bucket by his feet with a satisfied look on his face.

The interviewer, dumbfounded, asked the engineer why he hadn't done anything. "I already have a bucket full of water." was his reply.

The interviewer than asked the mathematician why he had returned with the empty bucket and untied the rope.

"I have reduced the problem to one for which the solution is known." he proudly exclaimed.

The engineer got the job.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thanks, Max, for the reference. "Thermodynamics is PV = nRT to us, dude...

It's suprising when I pronounce that equation as a word and someone knows what I'm talking about... :)...

(Badly) sung to the tune of Nestle's chocolate ad back in nuclear power school...

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