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when I was back at electrical trade at school (long long long long time ago)
a teacher told the class
yes you can pass with 50% BUT it's not the 50% that you know that worries me, it's the 50% you don't know that you could kill yourself or someone else with!

I'm dislexic &I passed with 99% and at the same time was doing parrallel courses for electronics engineering so went on to do a another year of study
many people failed and did years of night school to even pass ????
(I'm pretty sure some never ever did pass??)
I never did learn to spell though

Jase

I have a saying that I trot out a lot at work:
Engineers put fantasy into what could be reality,
Tradesmen put the reality into engineering fantasy.



Ralph - A tradesman studying for his masters, no bachelor degree for me!

Remember...

What are the eight most feared words in the English language??

Hello, I'm an Engineer, how may I help?

When I was at high school my advanced maths teacher (also the subject master) went in to talk to the vegge maths (Maths A/Maths in society) class after their exam results came back. We all heard him shout at the top of his voice...

"If you failed this exam it means you don't even know how to write your own name!"

I am involved with some engineering students at a uni campus in Asia, and recently had to sit on the "board of examiners" meeting (where the grades for each subject and each student are reviewed). One particular civil eng. student had just failed a structural engineering subject (48%), and the board was discussing upgrading his mark to a pass as it was one of the last subjects he had to do. The lecturer said "I would be strongly against it as I have to drive across a lot of bridges on my way to work". After the laughter died down he was given a fail.

Hi Pedro

Both our grader drivers are learners and are sick of being told what they are doing wrong by everyone.Kind of glad the grader didnt eventuate for me,the leading had grabbed it after I was told Im on one.
Great sight monday,the leading hand fell off the road in the brand new Volvo grader,3 wheels in the air,the only reason it didnt topple over was the blade stuck in the ground. He told the supervisor we were making it sound worse than it was,BUT we had an independant wittness,the cocky who owns the farm next to the job.
WE LAUGHED OUR HEADS OFF. FOOL!!!!!
Andrew

what's worse than engineers? (can't be too hard on engineers, to close to home, although it all comes down to practical experiance, some have some haven't, no matter how much paper you push NOTHING beats prac)

answer architects
having worked in the building industry (before moving over to mechanical)
90% of architects have NO clue
all looks pretty on paper but 90% are hopeless
late 80's I was working on this massive 3 story solid concrete beach front house in wiliamstown
I think was the arictects "dream job" (before that he was probably designing porta loos)
the builder was p#ssed right off with the acrhitect saying "that's not how it's shown on th plans" all the time (tiny details, & 99% of time the builder way was better)
so when the balconys on the front of the house (was sort of terraced front with each floor with big balcony over the level below) had floors flush with inside floor hight and no drains that's how it was built
sure enough a few weeks later big downpoors of rain and whole house flooded
architect showed up to flooded house (pudles everywhere and water running out the doors) and he almost blew a fuse
to top it off no windows in the whole place opened as it was going to be 100% aircond (even that is spastic) so being concrete it sucked up water like a big sponge and 6mths later still had condinsation running down the inside

very funny

my best bit on job (we took job over casue orignal elecs quite due to architect)
house was almost complete and we were hanging thease bloody huge 120kg blown galss italian light fittings (worth thousands $)
the owners came in a complained kitchen was dark (in the daytime) cause it only had one light on the center (as per plans ) architect said no problem
called me over and said throw a spotlight, there, there and there
(I was shocked this place is solid concreate and alreday (solid) plastered)
we had to get walls and roof chased rerendered, replastered & repainted
those 3 lights must have cost $10 grand
glad it wasn't my money

Jase

How could you know nothing about pi as a bloody engineer? I am sure we were introduced to that in either grade 7 or 8 or so. It is needed for basic calculations. Maybe he just knew it as that funny button on the calculator?

I have a friend who is a newly graduated electrical engineer and has absolutely no idea about anything practical. He has pretty much zero common sense. He works for Queensland Rail.

I did an applied science environmental type degree and there were a few camping trips involved. I heard one girl ask a lecturer if a particular trip was compulsory as she didn't like camping or bugs .

Originally Posted by Utemad

I have a friend who is a newly graduated electrical engineer and has absolutely no idea about anything practical. He has pretty much zero common sense. He works for Queensland Rail.

I know plenty of people like that - I have had to explain to heaps of differnt mates or colleagues who were chemical or mechanical engineers how bits of their cars worked.

Latest one, was a mate who is a high-paid mechanical engineer for a large company. He has a 60 series LC (used for surfing trips), and thought that when you engage 4x4, the front wheels are being driven even with the hubs unlocked, and locking the hubs was the equivalent of having a diff lock on the front axle!!!