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You Know You're an Engineer When...

wpolk
wpolk over 11 years ago

We're asking you to complete this sentence: "You know you're an engineer when..."

 

Your input could be featured in an upcoming article on ImAnEngineer.com, Newark element14's newly launched website celebrating the ingenuity and impact of engineers!


We'll be choosing three of the most insightful and entertaining responses to send a much-sought-after bag of element14 swag to, between now and the end of July (don't worry if you're post is already in, we'll still consider it as an entry). T's & C's are here, and remember that you can drive the competition by casting votes for your favorite entries using the "Like" button on each post.


To bag your swag:


Step 1: Think deeply about the kind of traits that you feel typify the engineer's personality (and then check out the obligatory terms and conditions for the comp).

 

Step 2: Register, log in and comment on this discussion to tell the world about your favorite engineering personality quirks/disorders/idiosyncrasies.

 

Step 3: Make yourself a coffee and spend an enjoyable hour picking out the inspired (mostly hilarious) insights into your engineering identity, and hit the "Like" button on those that really resonate.

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  • COMPACT
    COMPACT over 10 years ago in reply to cstanton

    "It depends!"

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 10 years ago in reply to wpolk

    Would anyone be interested in sizes of these as desktop/mobile wallpapers?

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    wpolk over 10 years ago

    Thanks very much for everyone's input. We've identified 10 of our favorite responses and featured them over at ImAnEngineer.com. We also created an image for each of those 10 responses, which you can see in the article:

     

    You know you're an engineer when...

     

    We'll be sharing the images on the Newark element14 and element14 social media channels in the coming days. Feel free to share the ImAnEngineer article, and/or the social posts, with your networks too!

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 11 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    Thanks for information. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_transmitter

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  • Workshopshed
    Workshopshed over 11 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

    A relay station with leaky feeder, apparently https://www.londonbanter.co.uk/london-transport/10471-dartford-tunnel-radio-reception.html

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  • Robert Peter Oakes
    Robert Peter Oakes over 11 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    it's called the tunnel effect... seriously, look it up image

    the higher the frequency, the better it works image

     

    https://books.google.ca/books?id=WaLIUSljsEAC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=tunnel+effect+radio+waves&source=bl&ots=_fwjfK9V0n&sig=2tHbmTLccFBXj3fg_hdzv-1vl24&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBGoVChMI9IKko7OcxwIVjAOSCh1DCgQa#v=onepage&q=tunnel%20effect%20radio%20waves&f=false

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  • Workshopshed
    Workshopshed over 11 years ago

    You travel through a 1.4km tunnel under the Thames and wonder how the radio and mobile signal still work....

    Slight drop out halfway but would have been out of line of sight long before then as it's not a straight line

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  • peterjcs23
    peterjcs23 over 11 years ago

    you find you are paid less than the person who knows how to use Microsoft Project.

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  • SGarciaV
    SGarciaV over 11 years ago in reply to clem57

    One of my faves:

    image

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  • johnbeetem
    johnbeetem over 11 years ago in reply to jack.chaney56

    Jack Chaney wrote:

     

    Another slide rule spotted in Fantastic Voyage (1966), when the General is trying to see if they have enough time to take the secondary route. We probably shouldn't poke too hard at an Irwin Allen flaw for having a military person running engineering calculations with a room full of scientists and a computer running in the background.

    IIRC, there were lots of frantic slide rule calculations in Apollo 13 (1995).

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