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You know you're an engineer if...

sparkydave

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You know you’re an engineer if...

10. In college you thought Spring Break was a type of metal fatigue
9. At home, you rearrange the dishwasher to maximize dirty dish density
8. You stare at an orange juice container because it says 'concentrate'
7. You know the direction the water swirls when you flush and have used this information to extrapolate your GPS coordinates
6. You own a software program to design the furniture layout in your house
5. You've tried to repair a $5 radio, and used $20 worth of solder to do it
4. You have no life and can prove it mathematically
3. During Thanksgiving Dinner you find yourself calculating the load-bearing capacity of Aunt Martha’s chair
2. You spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring
1. You've already calculated how much money you make per second

I can relate to #5, but when you can repair a $30 battery charger by replacing the $1 part, that pays off.
 
If you use terms like “modulus of elasticity” in emails with friends.

(did that just this morning)


PC.
 
PC said:
If you use terms like “modulus of elasticity” in emails with friends.

(did that just this morning)


PC.

You too??!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif Actually, I think I said "Youngs Modulus."
Jeff
 
sparkydave said:
You know you’re an engineer if...

9. At home, you rearrange the dishwasher to maximize dirty dish density

I was just accused of this by the wife.
 
My son, the mechanical engineering student, was explaining what we needed to do to push the car up the icy driveway, using force vectors! What we needed was less analysis, more grunting.
 
PHerder said:
sparkydave said:
You know you’re an engineer if...

9. At home, you rearrange the dishwasher to maximize dirty dish density

I was just accused of this by the wife.

I do this all the time,so then they try not to stack it as they know I will re-arrange it.
 
11. you have more computers than you have furniture /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
Nunyas said:
11. you have more computers than you have furniture /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
12. the furniture you do have is rectangular and says “Sun Microsystems” on the sides.


PC.
 
I'm busted... the dishwasher did it. The computers and furniture were a given. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
LOL
I usually bag the groceries at the store according to where they go when I get home. All the dairy stuff in one bag, the frozen stuff in another, the cleaning goods in a different bag... It takes a few more seconds at the store but makes it so much easier when I get home.
 
70herald said:
LOL
I usually bag the groceries at the store according to where they go when I get home. All the dairy stuff in one bag, the frozen stuff in another, the cleaning goods in a different bag... It takes a few more seconds at the store but makes it so much easier when I get home.

And all the squishy stuff and bread can go on the bottom so the heavy stuff compresses it- better space utilization! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Isn't that the normal way to pack stuff,James? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
I saw a young man wearing a tee shirt with all this on it.
He admitted he was an engineer. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif
 
An optimist sees the glass as half full.
The pessimist sees it as half empty.
I see instantly that it was poorly designed in the first place, with the intended volume miscalculated.
Jeff
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif
The shirt I saw did not compute. Too big. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif
 
With two of them at the house for Thankgiving it was a discussion of Fluid Dynamics in relationship to Mazda intake/exhaust manifolds.
 
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