Roll call - Who all here are engineers?

[franz]

school is useless. i started working in video engineering almost 3 years ago. i learned it all slowly as i worked. best way to learn any kind of engineering is to be hands on with it.

Engineering cannot all be learned "on the job".
What kind of world would it be if we let people die to find out if something was strong enough or not?
Oops, oh well, better go make another one...

[Rosica]

Engineering cannot all be learned "on the job".

Real Mechanical Engineering cannot be learned on the job, but a good tech school will teach you enough to get by. I was amazed that my friend learned all about metal grain structure at Wyotech.

[325Ryan]

3rd year Engineering Physics, Electrical option doing co-op soon.

[indo318is]

Wow everyone is doing mechanical. Going into Junior year Civil. A bit of advice for you people with AP credits from High School. College level Calc, Physics, and Chem is a little more demanding. You might want to take a refresher before attempting higher level courses. I know it was useful to several of my classmates and I who had taken AP classes.

[george graves]

Video engineering is totally different than any other engineering(maby it's closer to being a train engineer - kidding.)

I am a Mech. Eng. Student, who is a video editor - so yea...Video engineers end up being more of a electrontics trouble shoter.

George

[DrMcDave]

i am soon going into my forth year at gettysburg college as a physics major. i was initially a 3-2 engineering program but i wanna finish up playing soccer. I can go right into a masters program in engineering. I can automatically go to Rochester if i apply (they are connected with gettysburg) but i haven't decided where i am going/want to go yet.

as for AP credits i skipped out of calc I and it wasn't a problem, you'll be shocked at how fast shit goes though. stuff that takes a week now takes a day. Takes a while to get used to. I'd say skip (ap credit wise) as many classes as you can unless you know you are weak in something. I wouldn't recommend skipping any physics courses though, basic physics will be your friend.

to put things in perspective i just finished a lab report on plasma physics (langmuir probe) that was 25 pages long, 12 without the appendix. I had 2.5 weeks to complete the experiment it was hard as fuck and long.

study groups are a key to not working forever. no matter how good of a physics, engineering student you are find a kid that is awesome at math and thank me later. You'll get proofs that suck, math kid = money.

i have a 3.5 in physics and a 3.3 overall....

[indo318is]

find a kid that is awesome at math and thank me later.

I second that.

[roguetoaster]

Great to see so many engineers here! It's always inspiring to be among fellow problem-solvers and innovators. Let's collaborate and share our knowledge to tackle exciting challenges together.

Nice to see a bot bump a thread I've never seen before.

[e30davie]

The wording of Mitchel80's post reminds of something management would say to my team (a group of engineers), whilst simultaneously making completely ridiculous uneducated delusional decisions without consulting us that impact our work. (yes I'm an engineer, Im just a tiny bit jaded)

[digger]

Did mech eng and been working 20years in the industry for both oem and in consulting

[iXBeater]

Wow - a double-decade bump. At least it makes it easier to spot the bot.

For the record, I'm not an engineer, but have spent a lot of my 31-year career with my current company working with them. I often drive them a little crazy... ;)

[TobyB]

Hmmm... what are the bots harvesting? Are they poking us, trying to see how we'll respond?

t
worries that Moses Lake has already achieved intelligence, and is skulking.
Also, audio engineer, as in, not really.

[Mo Brighta]

Bump - I got a BS in Civil, MS in Mechanical, with a focus in Wind Energy.- then promptly became a Technical Writer, where I wrote the Operation Manual for the world's largest Wind Generator (4 MW Output), Space Flight hardware (classified), Gold Recovery Process bench, Home-brewing supplies, a million other things, and then, back to Large Wind Turbines for Vestas. Retired, but not idle, I now help folks upgrade and restore lighting on their vintage BMWs. Must be nuts!

Biographical - I am now driving my second car, both BMW, and have had my license since 1970. 55 years, two cars, over 500K each ... am I NUTS?

[roguetoaster]

am I NUTS?

Well, you did get two engineering degrees to become a technical writer...

Alternately, if you can't be the brightest bulb you can at least sell them...

[varg]

Technical writer sounds like an interesting job. I wind up correcting and modifying the wording in all sorts of engineering stuff I work on anyway.