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Old Aug 3, 2007 | 12:21 AM
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Holy ****. Do Jews hold a "Hi, I'm a Jew" sign or something?
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Old Aug 3, 2007 | 12:27 AM
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whoops
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 02:05 AM
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First of all, I'm really sorry for all the victims and families of the victims.

Second: @Loki - who do you think are the "A"s of the engineering? Lets say you think the machine-building industry engineer - let's try to let them build a bridge... oooops....

Have a look at this -



It's the Millau Viaduct - hundrets of civil engineers did the planning and supervising there. All of them the "C"s... I don't think so....

P.S.: Of course I'm a civil engineer too, so I had to write this.
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 08:20 AM
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Ah hell w/ that bridge.. they coulda just made a road that served the same purpose lol
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Newbsauce
Ah hell w/ that bridge.. they coulda just made a road that served the same purpose lol
not even gonna touch that one
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Ben
Holy ****. Do Jews hold a "Hi, I'm a Jew" sign or something?
Haha i did for a while. My avatar was "iJew" with kyle from south park, And alot of the Jewish stereotypes are true; I'm extremely cheap and have a huge **** but it just comes with the territory

As for engineers in my mind here hows it goes

1/2 mechanical and electrical (goes back and forth)
3 Civil Engineers
4 Industrial
5 Manufacturing
6 Construction.

And there are exceptions to every rule
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 09:31 AM
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Ouch...chemical doesn't even make your list :gay:
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 09:32 AM
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i havent decided on chemical engineers yet. Whats the difference between a chemical engineer and a chemist?
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or aerospace.

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Old Aug 3, 2007 | 09:34 AM
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Well AE i would put with mechanical just specialized
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 09:37 AM
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Whats the difference between a chemical engineer and a chemist?
That's like asking what the difference is between a mechanical engineer and a physicist.

Alright...I'm outta here. I took this thread way off topic. Bridge collapse is tragic.
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 09:57 AM
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See i disagree, i think they are the same. Just ones more practical.
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Loki047
As for engineers in my mind here hows it goes

1/2 mechanical and electrical (goes back and forth)
3 Civil Engineers
4 Industrial
5 Manufacturing
6 Construction.

And there are exceptions to every rule
At my school, mech and mfg engineering have the same types of courses, but mfg has higher levels of them, higher job placement (99.5%) and higher starting salary. If it wasn't for those things, I'd be a ME major.
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 11:25 AM
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Really? thats amazing to me.

Manufacturing engineers at my school dont even take calcIII let alone diff eq, fluids, and heat transfer.

I think they have a tech degree not an engineering degree

Is your school ABET accredited?
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 11:38 AM
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Yeah it's accredited and was recently designated a polytechnic university. I don't have to take calc III, but the ME's don't even have to take calc II. I'm taking diff eq this year and I believe the fluid dynamics stuff comes later. I've mostly been doing a ton of materials (Chem of materials, engineering materials etc) classes so far.
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 11:53 AM
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What school do you go to?
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 11:58 AM
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UW-Stout
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 12:53 PM
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all AEs are former AEs. at cal poly it was the #1 engineering degree to bail out of.

<--- Mechanical
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by SamS
but the ME's don't even have to take calc II.
What?!? I had to take up to Calc 3 along with all the other math classes, 2 diff eq's, 2 engineering maths, etc. ABET accredited also.

But I'd rather take a math class than one of the liberal arts classes. "Fortran" was my foreign language credit! I was lucky enough to get into "short story" my senor year, it almost offset the horror of "medieval women" junior year.

<--- Mechanical too.
Old Aug 3, 2007 | 03:54 PM
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Gen Eds ruined my GPA... religions of the eastern world killed me! so did western civ.

Both night classes from 6-9.... happy hour was 430-6... i slept alot in those classes.

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