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The world would be a pretty dark and dreary place without engineers. No matter their particular specialization (and there are a lot of ‘em!), they’re the people who help keep civilization going, all while innovating to bring ideas and tech that seem straight out of sci-fi movies into our reality. ‘Engineering Memes Guy’ is a massively popular Instagram account run by ‘meme engineer,’ mechanical engineering expert, and entrepreneur Eduardo Flores.
He features some of the most hilarious and relatable memes related to engineering on the internet, and we couldn’t wait to share the best ones with you. Scroll down to check them out! Bored Panda has reached out to Flores, and we’ll update the article once we hear back from him.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
(Holding spot for bad pun while I go learn something about electricity.)
Be Gay Do Crime 1 year ago
Why are some people like this XD (Including me 0-0)
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Stephen Lyford 1 year ago
Republicans: Our philosophy is f*** workers' rights. Union workers: VOTE RED! #SMDH
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Republicans: Let's get rid of social security and medicare! People on social security and medicare : VOTE RED!!
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MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Can't have the concentricity out of spec or the soup will taste funny
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
Light sabers don't keep food in the fridge... just saying. Also, make a freaking light saber already!!
Bret Sander 1 year ago (edited)
If you want to see the guy that did make a convincing light saber? Look up Lanny Smoot He's an imagineer at Disney and has quite a few patents. He's AWESOME.
Flores created his Instagram account more than a decade ago, way back in April 2013. In the 11+ years since then, the meme-focused project has grown by leaps and bounds.
The founder has drawn in a whopping 415k followers from all corners of the globe. And it’s likely that the account will flourish as long as there are all kinds of engineers browsing social media. The memes are witty, to-the-point, and incredibly relatable if you're an engineer of any kind.
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
I was taking an Anatomy & Physiology course in preparation for nursing school. The professor let us use both sides of a 3" x 5" card for notes on the final exam. I have a background in graphic design. I shrunk my notes down really small on my computer and printed them as a double-sided 3" x 5". Then I went to the dollar store and bought their most powerful pair of reading glassed. I was able to find any answer I needed.
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Grey Beard 1 year ago
I'm an electronic engineer, specializing in communication systems. "Hey, can you you look at my car, you're an engineer, right?". "Yes but I'm an electronic eng... OK yeah I probably can fix your car". Lots of engineers just like learning how things work and how to fix things, it's why we ended up as engineers.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I ran a music electronics & pro-audio repair shop. We hired an electronics engineer to work on amps. He couldn't repair a single thing. He may know how to design an amp, but troubleshooting and repair is actually a lot harder.
James Doe 1 year ago
Different, not harder. I'd guess you'd be just as lost designing one
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Mike Price 1 year ago
That's a real nice brick wall. Proper English bond. And I'm an engineer, and there was a time I understood cars, but that was back in the 1980s before all the electronic gubbins.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Why not? That should be a qualification for working as an engineer. You can design machines but you don't know how machines work?
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
Or maybeee (and this is a stretch) they design something other than cars and have no idea how to fix one.
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Eternal Progress 1 year ago
Exactly! AI chatbots are just search engines that make the data more understandable!
Mike Beck 1 year ago
Nah. Fancy autocomplete sometimes linked to search engines.
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Ben Aziza 1 year ago
Nah this is outdated. That is what ai used to be. Now it is closer to what we can see in biological brains. Neural networks interlinked in increasingly deep layers. THE problem with that is that some AIs are so complex that they are blackboxes. Hard for the coders or the AI itself to explain the reasoning behind the results. SCARY S**T if you ask me! We have AI safety experts working on that but... All it takes is one rogue country to ignore safety and we can end up with AI that is maximising a function(goal) that is not aligned with human values... Because said function was not well defined. The goal can be make humans happy! So it decides to spend 100 years self improving silently and making sure it always has acess to hardware to "live in" until nothing can stop it and it locks all the human population in pods as it injects our brain with dopamine and other s**t... Cus that is what "happy means to it" Cus the coder Fued up! Yeh that is what keeps me up at night as a CS guy.
Science Nerd 1 year ago
Have you ever taken a look at programming code in your language of choice that was generated by AI? It takes more time to check and correct the code than it would for any decent programmer to write it from scratch. And this is after the AI has been trained on every publically-accessible code base in the world.
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highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
Ok but this graphic makes no sense because in Scooby it was always the abandoned theme park caretaker pretending to be a ghost, so this would mean that nested conditionals are pretending to be AI?
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Reminds me of my awesome Excel prowess. I had a coworker try to tell me that he could create a better spreadsheet. Um, ok. Mine was full of equations and if/then statements. He tried to copy one of my printed spreadsheets, wherein he just put in the numbers my equations had created. In a meeting with the PRESIDENT of the company, I asked Greg - how did you come to that conclusion? Because, you're not showing your work, Greg. You are showing the answers I have in MY spreadsheet, but I have documentation to prove my results. Do you? Yep, he got fired. It wasn't the first time he'd tried to take credit for someone else's work. And - I was not f*cking having it.
In a YouTube interview with digital creator and computer science engineering specialist, Sonia Camacho, Flores shared a bit about himself. He was raised in Orange County, as well as partly in Jalisco, Mexico.
After studying mechanical engineering, he started his career in industrial automation in 2014. According to the information in the video, the ‘Engineering Memes Guy’ account gets between 3 and 5 million views per week.
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Sky Render 1 year ago
Modern AI is basically just a combination of plagiarism and digital hallucination.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Emphasis on the hallucination. You wanna know if a picture is AI generated, look at the hands. They literally look like hands look if you are on a lot of LSD. I speak from experience on that.
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Sue User 1 year ago
Ann Readon ( how to cook that ) has a hilarious youtube video where she tries to make a chocolate cake from an AI produced recipe.
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Angelshark 1 year ago
Generative AI according to me: https://images.app.goo.gl/9r7jBC3Z9tMHVmje8
Glenn Milliken 1 year ago
Yes but you can apply the concept of exponential growth to the intelligence of AI
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Logics major: the glass is half empty if you are drinking it. It is half full if you are filling it.
Max Robitzsch 1 year ago
Nonsense. As a civil engineer I'd say that the glass has a good safety margin for the volume of liquid, so all good, build it.
Susan Reid Smith 1 year ago
Regular person: There's something to drink in there? Please stop analyzing it and pass it already!
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Regarding that engineers' perspective, my experience is, that's managements & bean counters perspective. We engineers often like to over-compensate (ie, extra features, higher safety factors). It's them that want the products to be 'just enough'.
Manana Man 1 year ago
In reality the engineer would be saying 'we need some safety margin. Let's make it twice as big, thicker glass, with a second outer glass enclosing it and some hand grips.'
Aside from being a self-professed ‘meme engineer,’ Flores is a very serious entrepreneur. He founded Lumis Automation, which specializes in industrial automation integration services, in 2018, based in California. He has a second business as well, Drape Warehouse, which provides events services for special occasions.
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Sue User 1 year ago
I would put the link to the website where i found the code in my comments. Colleague wss dumbfounded " you steal code ?". Um, no woner it takes you twice as long, writing everything from scratch.
Mike Loux 1 year ago
Yup. StackOverflow link in the comments. That way I both credit the work and blame any ensuing bug.
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Don't listen to me 1 year ago
Somebody famous called it Standing on the shoulders of Giants. And that's how society progresses.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Meanwhile whoever first said "plagiarism is unacceptable" must be pissed
Jamie Murdock 1 year ago
Reusing code we have rights to is logical. Our assumptions it will do everything we want are disasters. It often best to reuse the method, or the modular parts.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
Programmers don't copy someone's code. There are really only a few ways to accomplish any function. Code, by its nature, is portable.
Marla Singer 1 year ago
Government work is like this. I invite people to "adapt" (steal) my policy language.
Angelshark 1 year ago
Artists: "You stole my IP." Generative AI Programmers: "No I didn't, you gave me permission to use it by putting it where I could find it."
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Sky Render 1 year ago
Honestly, fully grasping quantum physics after only 584 hours of study sounds pretty good to me.
Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
At 8 hour work days at 5 days a week, it's about 3 and half months. But it doesn't claim to give a full grasp. After 3 and a half months of solid video, with no time for lunch breaks, you learn what you don't know, what you need to study, and what you'll never understand. LEARNING!
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
Quantum theory is Magic! It's something from nothing, and then gone again. My friend says if you understand quantum mechanics, you really don't understand sny of it!
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Highfalutin Heron 1 year ago
Have you seen badly written Lisp code? You can definitely have too many parentheses.
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Programmers also relate. PEMDAS feels like a loose suggestion sometimes for computer math interpreters...
There are certain professions where it’s unclear exactly what you do if you don’t provide more context. For example, when somebody tells you that they’re an engineer or a consultant, one of the first questions that’ll probably pop up in your mind is, “What kind?”
Besides, many people might assume different things due to their personal background and experience.
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Bisha Moten 1 year ago
You'd be surprised how many environmental engineers, and scientists do this too.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
Now I just start typing and let VSCode and CoPilot finish it for me. tap tap tab. tap tap tab.
Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
As a lawyer, I can assure you that Law School teaches us how to learn to be lawyers — it doesn’t actually teach about practicing law. Mostly, that’s Google too.
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One individual might assume that someone who says they’re an engineer is directly involved in building bridges and skyscrapers. Another person might jump to the conclusion that they’re a software engineer, designing things in the digital rather than the physical world. Someone else might think that you’re talking about a structural engineer who inspects foundations and makes sure that buildings don’t topple over.
There are lots of other specializations, too, including chemical engineering and industrial engineering. (You could technically argue that everyone’s some type of engineer. For example, we could think of ourselves as digital text and image engineers with a focus on wit and education.)
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Verena 1 year ago
Their AutoCAD was papyrus/wax tablet, a pen and a well educated slave. All of this could have malfunctioned, too. And without very precise calculus the water and sewage would not have reached the desired destination. Calculus is way older than the jokers are comfortable with. Without calculus they would live a pretty basic life.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
@Verena, they used calculations, not calculus: calculus is the mathematics of continuous change, and the ancient Romans didn't know about it. Working out how to do it needs some pretty clever thinking about infinitesimals, and that took until the 17th century. You don't need to know about differentials and integrals to plan and build a constant gradient aqueduct.
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As if the Roman engineer *built* the aqueduct. He designed and managed the build. Not that different from what a modern "office engineer" does, really.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
You're right, we should build things without planning them or understanding physics, sounds like a great idea /s
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David Green 1 year ago
Need to watch out for survivor bias. What about the thousands of Roman builds that didn't last a year.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Though, probably, the architect didn't last much longer, in those cases ...
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
It is rather remarkable that these ancient Roman engineers didn't know calculus (which was developed in the 17th C), but considering what they built, their knowledge of basic math and geometry sufficed. Proving once again that I did NOT need to take that damn calculus class.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Check out the Pantheon in Rome - still the biggest non-reinforced concrete dome ever built. What the mediaeval cathedral architects achieved is at least as astonishing once you find out about exactly how highly optimised their designs were and the rather primitive design methods they used - primitive as in very basic, drawing on the floor and things like that, but also very, very sophisticated. Granted, their work did occasionally fall down, but apparently that was often due to inadequate foundations rather than a flaw in the above-ground design.
Load More Replies... Kent Fletcher 1 year ago
You don't want to know how many times the CAD program crashed on us in the early 80's, losing many hours of work on university class assignments.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
The Roman engineers had one long continuous evolution of engineering knowledge. We are on the far end of having Christians throw out all the toilets because they didn't want people pulling their pants down or taking their cloths off to take showers. There's still a lot of Roman technology we can't figure out.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Umm. Precisely *which* Christians threw out the toilets? The only objection to bathing I've met from Christian point of view was in England: the country used to be cleaner than average due to communal bath houses, but the church disapproved because of men and women being naked together and what they got up to while they were.
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UnpopularPanda 1 year ago
Of course it is, in the original pic, that guy is standing in a stadium watching live cricket match, obv he's not wearing a headset, you do know how memes work right?
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Eternal Progress 1 year ago
After independently attempting this, I say OP must have a massive fist, cuz I'm 3cm smaller in the first three measurements.
Aedonia Nightsong 1 year ago
I must be a massive woman, my hand from thumb to pinky extended like the first pic Is 21cm
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Jan Moore 1 year ago
I'm an RN, not an engineer. I had a patient who had tube feeding 3 X a day, the tube needed to be inserted 6", Tried of having to carry a tape measure each time I measured 6" from my wrist lines to the end of my little finger. I no longer have that patient but I can still use the measurment.
John Nelson 1 year ago (edited)
As a machinist, I did something similar once, drove the QC guy nuts. We had to measure a machined steel plate on a probe table, and he swore it wouldn't fit. Now that bad boy weighed over 300lbs, and he thought he could get out of it by claiming so. I put my arm across it, declared it was less than a cubit, layed my arm across the table, declared it was just over a cubit, so it would fit. He loudly proclaimed we don't measure things in cubits! and stormed off to find the boss. The boss listened intently, then told him "well he did say it was less than a cubit, didn't he? Go load it up!" It fit, and I had to keep a low profile around the QC guy for a couple days, but it was worth it!
Mechanical engineering—which Flores studied—mainly focuses on designing power-producing machines. For example, this includes electric generators, steam and gas turbines, and internal combustion engines. It also includes power-using machines like refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. Meanwhile, mechanical engineers also design machines inside buildings, like elevators and escalators.
Mechanical engineers design power-producing machines, such as electric generators, internal combustion engines, and steam and gas turbines, as well as power-using machines, such as refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. They design other machines inside buildings, such as elevators and escalators.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
How is it that Frank Gehry hasn't been beaten to death by a an engineer yet?
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Frank Lloyd Wright was still getting commissions in his eighties, even though some of his most famous stuff is an engineering nightmare
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SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Side note... I really wish that this meme/picture would fade into oblivion. The Taylor from RHOBH vs the cat... If you know why, you know why if you watched the show during that time.
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
If you voluntarily watched the show, I pity you.
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Kenny Kulbiski 1 year ago
Actual installers to mechanical engineers, " there's no room for pipes or ducts. And I don't care what your cute little drawings say.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
Also, it's sagging on one side and there are no doors on the first floor.
Enzo Carlo Bori 1 year ago
Years ago in Geneva Motor Show - Automotive designer - "Beautiful model of car!" - Commercial "Beautiful model of car!" - OEM "Beautiful model of car! but is it feasible?" Me - "No, the style never ask me dimension of engine and transmission and we have to emboss the front bonnet up to the mid of windshield"
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Highfalutin Heron 1 year ago
To be fair, posting stuff for others to copy in the first place is a point of pride for programmers
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Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
I think if Doctors googled more stuff I wouldn't have to wait 6 months for an appointment.
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OhnoI’vebeencensored 1 year ago
In a storm, you can shelter in the cavitation region under a cow’s neck
Dave Platt 1 year ago
For extra credit: increase the speed to .9999C in atmosphere, and then calculate the pattern of the resulting Cherencow radiation.
According to Indeed, mechanical engineers earn an average of $94,933 per year in the United States. Of course, the salary can be higher or lower depending on the city and company where you work, and all the other benefits you have access to can vary, too.
Meanwhile, American software engineers earn an average salary of $105,333 per year. Some software engineers who are based in San Francisco or New York City can expect to earn almost 1.5 this average rate.
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Bisha Moten 1 year ago
Eh, from an environmental engineer point of view, it's "old baseball cap, T shirt with one or two stains, dirty blue jeans, boots (often cowboy), and a distinct smell of bug spray, and a perpetual look of annoyance." (We tend to spend more time in the field gathering samples, than in an office.)
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Jeremy Klaxon 1 year ago
Just be a kid. Buy yourself ice creams, legos, videogames. That's what I do. You can even buy yourself a sports car!
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
Kids can't walk into a grocery store and leave with a whole cake anytime they want. Just saying.
The Iowa State University notes that, essentially, you can end up working on a very wide range of systems and products, from aircraft engines, transmissions, and wind turbines to prosthetic devices, printers, fuel cells, and robots.
The sky’s the limit (sometimes literally)! There’s a lot of cool stuff that you can do with this sort of background.
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Eternal Progress 1 year ago
And neither if you're running windows. Use Linux, install Wine and/or Proton, and you're good to go.
Science Nerd 1 year ago
Windows is necessary if you need to interface with Outlook mail & calendar, edit Visio documents, send Word documents that don’t have any glitches to journals, or otherwise interact with the vast majority of the academic world. If you can get Visio to work under Wine, you’re a better person than I.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Macs are for those rich kids in school with millionaire parents.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
If you really think that's a valid world-view, write your own OS. In fact, write your own assembler . And hand-cut the transistors for the processor. I double-dog dare you ...
Parmeisan 1 year ago
Have you ever tried a Mac? I used Linux for years and loved it for its customizability and total control. I had to switch back to Windows for a job, because we had to run software that only ran on Windows. Still not a big fan, although I did definitely spend less time debugging my printer because the latest update borked it. My newest job uses Mac exclusively and it took me a while because I didn't like having to relearn all the keyboard shortcuts, but honestly I'm converted. With the terminal, you have all the control of Linux. And better ease of use than Windows. And most of the best software is on Mac. e.g., JetBrains Rider is the *best*. I probably can't change your mind with just words, but I strongly recommend giving it a serious try. Take a month. Let me know.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
We need an actual good implementation of Linux and not just the c**p that big baby keeps putting out.
Don't listen to me 1 year ago
Well of course. Windows is not for doing actual work. It's just for documentation.
Science Nerd 1 year ago
And necessary if you need to interface with Outlook mail & calendar, edit Visio documents, send Word documents that don’t have any glitches to journals, or otherwise interact with the vast majority of the academic world.
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Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
My son is our IT expert, and he's only 15 lol
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Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
I used to have to reset the clock on my grandparent's VCR every time I went for a visit.
Do we have any Pandas with an engineering background in the audience today? What kind of engineer are you? What drew you to engineering in the first place? What projects do you work on and what would you tell anyone new to help them survive and thrive? Tell us all about it in the comments!
Meanwhile, don’t forget to upvote your fave memes, and be sure to send them to all of your engineer friends who could use a break and a good laugh.
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago
When I was a student nurse, I worked a full-time job in a healthcare facility at night and went to school and to clinical training full-time during the day.
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
When I was in college, we didn’t have Red Bull. We had Jolt Cola. I still prefer Jolt.
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Robert T 1 year ago
Wouldn't be allowed to as they are not qualified. My dad was an electrical engineer, qualified to work on 32kV powerlines and responsible for the safety of a team of people. Not qualified to do domestic wiring.
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Skara Brae 1 year ago
An electrical engineer I know successfully replaced his home's fuse box with a circuit breaker box, including the wiring out to the power guage. He read the Electrical Code, did the work, then had his work inspected by the city power company. This isn't rare or hard to do. You can buy the parts at hardware stores.
John Nelson 1 year ago
I had my electrical engineer father in law help me wire my shop. It was.... interesting. I probably have the only shop in the county with redundant grounds and dual circuit light switches!
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Jess Smith 1 year ago
I can't upvote you right now I'm afraid, you have exactly nine upvotes. Consider this an upvote.
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Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
I think this is why my college didn't allow us to use Casio calculators.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
You have to respect other people's opinions , but only in the way that you respect their belief that their children are particularly gifted and beautiful. 'Respect' does not mean 'agree with'
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I'm not sure if you are genuinely asking or not so just in case, 3*3=9 and 3^3=27. I'm literally falling asleep as I'm writing this comment, so time for bed. Have a great day or night all
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Skara Brae 1 year ago
They are calculus terms. An example of a derivative: when you drive a car you press the gas pedal to increase speed and the brake to slow down. The derivative of the speed (velocity) of your car during your trip is acceleration, which means how quickly you speed up and slow down. You could draw a graph showing the speed of your car, and another graph of the acceleration. If someone were given a graph of your acceleration, they could draw a graph of the speed of your car during your trip by calculating the integral the acceleration, with one important exception: the integral can't figure out your starting speed. Obviously, the starting speed is zero for a car, but not when you need to, for example, move the orbit of a satellite.
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Manana Man 1 year ago
Then they went to integrals of trig functions and that's when I started faking it.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
integrating trig seemed easier to me than when there where natural logarithms involved
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Forrest McCanless 1 year ago
Here in Georgia, USA, public school math teachers can no longer teach how to "integrate" in calculus class - they have to say "take the anti-derivative". I'm not joking - they can't use the word "integrate".
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Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago
Right now 456 people are thinkin' " I don't get it" and this is the funniest graphic in this post!
Skara Brae 1 year ago
I get this is a joke, but non-engineers should know this not normal. I worked in several engineering companies and never saw anyone use 3 for pi. Anyone who tried would have been told to fix it, and regarded with suspicion afterwards.
Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
This picture really has nothing to do with the problem. It has to do with Lisa looking through the window into the classroom desiring to be in there. I had to look at the picture a few seconds myself to figure it out.
Bec 1 year ago
Several writers on The Simpsons have high level degrees in STEM. 100% intentional math joke here, plus the added title on the meme is also an accurate depiction of how engineers handle math
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
They are future-proof, too. They'll never become obsolete! ;)
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David 1 year ago
wow. flashback. I remember using steam tables in my nuclear power training. Back then I had eyes that could mostly read them. Never used them in my actual job because I was an operator, not a designer. It's great to have an overall understanding but the bus driver doesn't really need to know how to design a bus.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
They showed us how to use steam tables in college then were like "Just this Excel spreadsheet".
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nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
As a recovering software engineer, I can confirm that you'll be in a windowless cubicle farm. My esteemed coworkers would be in there daily, hollering to each other about football or some shіt. Bonus points if you're in a [sub-]basement.
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Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
These office layouts are why people want to stay home. Focus? With Phillis over there making a doctor's appointment while Jeff tells the same loud joke for the fifth time in the last twelve minutes.
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Skara Brae 1 year ago
No physical component or system can be made with absolute precision. Designing real-world devices requires calculating ranges of tolerance, which is effectively a set of approximations. A good example is digitally recorded music - it's not perfect, but it does the job.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
A good example is any tooling. I can make it as accurate as you want, how much money do you have?
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Some "males"? The greenish sliver between orange and blue.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
what about Greek mathematicians, Greek physicists or Greek mathematician-physicists, who do they count for?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I remember when I was young I was proud of myself for memorizing a few words in Latin. I felt it was part of my necessary "duties" as a self-proclaimed nerd/geek ;)
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Ryan Mercer 1 year ago (edited)
Now imagine a particle orbiting a nucleus, except it's not a particle and it's not orbiting.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Analogies usually fail, but not as spectacularly as concepts of 'the electron'
Science Nerd 1 year ago
Keep thinking about it until your brain explodes.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
I repaired electronic equipment for 38 years and never used Ohm's Law outside of college.
Fairytails From Other Worlds 1 year ago
P=UI and U=RI. I remember this from Finnish word PUIMURI (combine harvester) and I use this occult science in my work quite often. I work as a senior principal R&D engineer and e.g. design complex devices 😂
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Bec 1 year ago
I had a graduate math course where we ran out of letters, we;d used upper case and lower case Greek letters and the instructor had to write a few as 'bolded'
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Elchinero 1 year ago
"Mechanical engineers make weapon systems, civil engineers make targets." BSME/WSU
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Unite them all against a common enemy by bringing in a 'software engineer'.
Bisha Moten 1 year ago
Meanwhile, the Environmental Engineer is idly injecting poison gas into the room.
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SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
I don't get why everyone uses this photo to make fun of the guy on the left for being lame or whatever. These are the gold and silver winners, *in that order*.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
brand new engineer polishing turds vs. old school engineer knocking the project out (works for toolmakers as well)
Skara Brae 1 year ago
I'd say the left picture is the production phase and the other is the prototype phase.
imsouravmitra 1 year ago
Everytime I see this Turkish silver medal winner, something makes me feel uneasy. As if he is way overpowered to win silver, but chose to do so, in order to avoid suspicion.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
... until a physicist starts on about tensor calculus, or a mathematician starts talking about whatever craziness they're working on. I've still not managed to understand the whole "different orders of infinity" business, and that's a piece of cake compared to what the *heavy* maths dudes get up to.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 year ago
I noticed that people who are smart and excel at one field are know it all's assume they have the only correct answer for everything. You do not want to talk politics with them. Because outside their special field, many are idiots.
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
You need to meet nicer people. Smart people are people too, ranging from the nice to unspeakable. 🙂
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Darla Hitchcock 1 year ago
I dunno, the Critical peeps in my English Lit Doctoral program sure seem like they feel superior
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Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
I have to disagree here. Engineers do not know everything and often do have to refer to online sources, books, colleagues etc, for confirmation. But not knowing basic math is pushing it way too far.
Susan Reid Smith 1 year ago
I'm a sewist. I know it in decimal and in base 36 for feet and yards.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
As an undergrad engineering physics student, I taught physics for science majors and the number of students who couldn't do BASIC ALGEBRA was mind-boggling. How can you work in the science field without that basic knowledge. Then, in my engineering classes, I realized many engineering students had the same handicap.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
That is exactly the plot of Mission to Mars from 2000. They find a guy living in a greenhouse on Mars. Never mind the fact the air pressure on Mars is less than 1% of Earth. Not how it works people.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Sanitation engineer wonders how he is going to haul all the junk to the landfill.
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Antihaarbalsnoepje 1 year ago
Or even worse: in a dark small room in the basement staring at images of the Scanning Electron Microscope
Load More Replies... Skara Brae 1 year ago
The second picture is when your project isn't working. The top is when it finally does.
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michael reid 1 year ago
Modern fridges are pretty much unfixable by yourself though to be fair
Igor914624 1 year ago
They are quite fixable if you understand electronics.
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Two completely different sets of knowledge. Both require a very sharp mind. One gets their hands dirty, the other sits on his butt, stares at a computer all day, and feels superior to the other.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Depends on how it's broken. Generally these days, the answer is "buy a new fridge". Unless it's something stupid like a door seal, they aren't made to be "fixed" anymore.
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Skara Brae 1 year ago
That picture is Hayao Miyazaki, creator of Totoro and many other animals movies.
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Antihaarbalsnoepje 1 year ago
I knew a guy with a masters degree in Chemistry who had his own snackbar, so why not?
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Business majors are scum. There I said it. I have no use for useless people who get by on nepotism.
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Antihaarbalsnoepje 1 year ago
The second one probably looks complex for people who have never seen a phase diagram before, but once you understand how it works, the second one is just as easy to read as the first one.
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Adam Zad 1 year ago
Ford: Found On Road, Dead. Ford (backwards): Driver Returned On Foot
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Sitting at a computer all day is equivalent to smoking multiple packs of cigarettes. as far as being bad for one's health
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Mark Howell 1 year ago
Reminds me of a company I worked maintenance for. A team of engineers from the parent company came in to build a furnace. After 3 weeks they left and we maintenance engineers were left with a non-functioning furnace and to deal with the management questions over how long it will take.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Too true. Reminds me of dealing with every production live I've ever had to work on. Engineers come in for the installation, say "yep it works" and then they fly off and I'm stuck fixing every broken thing they left in.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I used to use fluid dynamics all the time in the beer and wine industry. Moving large volumes of liquid without cavitation can be tricky. Cavitation is bad because it can strip out the aromatics.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Shifty little bastards, those aromatics. They can't be trusted.
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Manana Man 1 year ago
Geologists: 'hit it with your hammer, maybe we can identify the inside.'
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leendadll 1 year ago
British slang and no intelligence behind the censoring
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they need to delete their censoring algorithm or their human sensor or...that damn monkey.
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michael reid 1 year ago
Many of these were revealingly accurate. Revealing the true internal structure of the minds of those who naturally dwell within the realms of engineering.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
In high school, I was sure I'd be an engineer. Then I flunked out of art school and ended up a forklift driver, now I'm a saxophone fixer, and have no regrets
Arlene Harris 1 year ago
I married an engineer once. Yeah, there's no joke there other than the marriage.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I spent twenty five years working with engineers. They were no more important than the manual laborers on the shop floor and not as bright as you may think.
Bertha Madott 1 year ago
Back in the dark ages I was in a hard arts programme at university. Crushing workload. The Engineers were rude crude sexist etc. Today 50+ years later I understand the rude, crude bit. Because their workload was even worse. The “sexist” stuff took care of itself as more women entered the profession. Go “Skool” go. University of Toronto.
michael reid 1 year ago
Many of these were revealingly accurate. Revealing the true internal structure of the minds of those who naturally dwell within the realms of engineering.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
In high school, I was sure I'd be an engineer. Then I flunked out of art school and ended up a forklift driver, now I'm a saxophone fixer, and have no regrets
Arlene Harris 1 year ago
I married an engineer once. Yeah, there's no joke there other than the marriage.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I spent twenty five years working with engineers. They were no more important than the manual laborers on the shop floor and not as bright as you may think.
Bertha Madott 1 year ago
Back in the dark ages I was in a hard arts programme at university. Crushing workload. The Engineers were rude crude sexist etc. Today 50+ years later I understand the rude, crude bit. Because their workload was even worse. The “sexist” stuff took care of itself as more women entered the profession. Go “Skool” go. University of Toronto.
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