Are You An Engineer?

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I'm an Air Force C-5a flight engineer for another 12 days then I become a retired flight engineer.

 

GO FOR IT! And thanX for the prior work too!:smile

 

I'm a software engineer (thats the job title where i work anyway), does that count?

 

Oh the dreaded in it for a buck Contractor. :smile Just kidding. A good contractor should be an engineer's best friend, but try to teach that to the fresh out of college ones or newly licensed ones forget it. I have supervised young design engineers before, it can be a challenge.

 

I am an engineer with mechanical and industrial engineering degrees from Kent State U. and Youngstown State U. I've done specialty machine design for the past 33 years on a wide spectrum of machines - from light bulb filament winders that you could hold in your hand, to strip mining equipment where one gear could be over 30 feet in diameter. Engineers need to be precise. I had worked for a precision grinder production company, and our grinders could hold dimensional tolerance on production parts within 4 millionths of an inch. Make a thousand vertical slices thru the diameter of one of your hairs, and the thickness of one of those pieces represents the range of variance in size.

 

This thread turned out great but while we wait for the poll to close let's enjoy a little engineer humor. I will go first...

One afternoon, an engineering student was riding across campus on a shiny new bike. He ran into a friend of his, also an engineering major, who said,
"Wow! That sure is a great bike. Where did you get it?"

"Well, the darndest thing happened," said the first engineering student. "A girl came riding up to me and got off the bike, threw off all her clothes, and said that I could have anything that I wanted."

"Wow," remarked his friend. "That's great. Good move. Her clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."

 

I am a HEALTH CARE engineer.........

 

At the time it was not funny, but now I find it hillarious.. On the Carrier in the boiler room there is a tradition, its called butt packing.. Its an initiation for all the new sailors who are new to the job.. The last person to get their butt packed got the honors of doing the next butt packing.
The material used was simple and on hand at all times.. GPG ( general purpose grease), cigarette butts, coffee grounds, spit, bilge scum, and whatever else was on hand.. all this was mixed together into a nice creamy substance, hmm.. It is carefully decided when it was your time..
When the time was right, your good buddies would surround you, string you up by your ankles, hang you upside down, pull your pants UP for the world to see..(not really, we're 7 stories under water).. The last person to get their butt packed had a fieldday with your booty, smearing, packing, while your were screaming & cussing.. When you finally got lowered to the deck, everyone scatters because you are MAD.. You get to shower after your packing and you have one thing on your mind.. I wanna pack someone.. But every now&then there was a random packing just for the airdales who where curious enough and coaxed into visiting the boiler room by an airdale who was dumb enough to actually want a tour of a boiler room.. They would scream and cry to their superiors, and the chief engineer would smack us on the hand with a grin on his face.. After all these years I still wonder if the tradition still carries on...

 

Tradition~

I've wondered about Traditions such as these.

Many carry over from British School Boyz pranks.

I'm sure modern day BB usage includes similar hazing.

The "FNG" syndrome was common during my service~"Hey~fetch me 20 gallons of Prop Wash~We need 10 yards of Shore Line and 6 more inches of freeboard, STAT~


and of coarse much harsher practices, some landing the recipients in sick call or sooner.
(& I must admit I've never figured out how some injuries occurred)

BUTT~I have decided it did ferret out who was going to panic/freeze/participate/perpetrate/tolerate or obliterate such practices.

 

Well, I don't consider myself an engineer but I guess Microsoft does. MCSE. I used to work on at a railroad company many years ago.. maybe that counts?

 

My first degree was geological engineering. But my interest in coins is primarily historical and the evolution of economies.

 

Software Engineer here

 

No, Not an engineer here either, Maybe we should change the thread
To "Do you know an Engineer" I think the results would be stronger
In your favor!....LOL

 

Please tell us, Hows the U.S economy? I keep hearing it,s getting
Better but have yet to see anything real positive, Sounds like
Alot of political jockeying to me.

 

You can say that again and still be right...