Happy Engineer's Day!
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For me it was the engineering major that required the least amount of chemistry......
Basically, the students in the engineering curriculum are required to take the same pre engineering fundamental courses....math. science, engineering
mathematics, physics, mechanics, strength of materials, electricity, kinematics (often referred to as the "geometry of motion"), engineering economy, chemistry, etc.
During those years of fundamental courses, one develops an appreciation for certain subjects, in my case I loved mechanics and strength of materials, disliked the electrical and chemistry. My likes and dislikes lead me down the path of Civil and Structural.
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For me it was the that needed the least math....which also meant the most chemistry...hence....
He’s open to anything from Upstate New York all the way down through the Carolinas and over to Georgia and Tennessee.
04’ - PSU Behrend BS MET —engineering light as my buddies like to tease , lol
To all my fellow nerds.....it's our day! Break out the protractors and the mechanical pencils and go design something!
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protractors? Dude, CAD/CAM
as people mentioned, most just migrate to what science course they liked best. if you liked chemistry the best then chemical engineer. if you are more of a mechanically oriented person and like fixing things and building things then you were a mechanical engineer. if you liked computers and electronics then you were an electrical engineer.
and If you weren't smart enough to get into one of those three, you ended up a civil engineer.
Hey now!... 😆 I had a sufficiently high GPA to pick* any of the engineering programs but went with civil as I had an interest in water and environment (and still do lol).
* = Assuming it is still the same and for those that may not know, you declare your top three preferred engineering fields at end of your sophomore year and then the college establishes GPA cutoffs based on predetermined class limits (i.e., only x NucEs, z EEs, etc., planned for class of YYYY). Much of whether you get your first choice or not is based on GPA (some on completed courses as well, aside from the core engineering courses). The college was pretty adamant, at least when I was there, about the GPA cutoff for each field; so much so that I knew folks that transferred to other universities because they didn't make the cut for their first choice.
Ok... another somewhat funny story about engineering at PSU. I arrived at UP after two tours in the Army, planning on continuing engineering studies I had started at the York campus pre-service. I started a work study at the Vet. Admin. educational counseling center on campus during my second semester there. The manager, also ex-military and a PSU grad, asked me about my planned major and, when I answer engineering, she said "so business, 'cause every ex-Army guy coming here thinks he's going to be an engineer but, since they can't handle the coursework, ends up in the business school." No slight to anyone that studied in the business school, of course, but I recall the comment gave me brief pause when I first heard it lol. 😆
another one...Mechanical Engineers make Chemical engineers wet dreams come true.
My grandfather was a civil engineer. It’s nice to drive over the bridges in DC that he worked on.
I always have the same problem, but I started out in Architecture before switching to Integrative Arts.
Remember you are only an engineer if you have a license. 😉
Every old bridge, old dam, old building we use was designed and built using slide rules!
Depends on their childhood.
If they built things so they could knock them down.....civil engineer.
If they tortured insects in mom’s bug zapper......electrical engineering.
Of they took their bikes or cars apart to rebuild them ....mechanical engineer.
If they loved to mix chemicals and blow things up......Chem Eng.
Some of my geologist friends, including me, started out as engineering students. We referred to engineering as "pre-geology".
Or geology is for engineering minded people who hate math.
Or geology is for engineering minded people who hate math.
PSU BAE (Arch Engr) ‘77’To all my fellow nerds.....it's our day! Break out the protractors and the mechanical pencils and go design something!
Engineers Day 2021: Why it is celebrated on September 15 - all about Sir Visvesvaraya and his contributions
Engineers Day 2021 is here! Lets take a look at why it is celebrated every year on September 15 and what are the contributions Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya in the field of engineering. Lesser known facts here.
I thought it was a legitimate question considering a guy in the PA Turnpike thread thought it was March.
BSIE ‘69- PSU. Licensed Manufacturing Engineer in State of Indiana (long lapsed). Passed the exam on first try, Whoopie !! Masters in Management - Ball State University….GO CARDS. Oops, a bit too late!😂
Kudos to the engineering/design team behind this new product that we never knew we couldn’t live without.
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And Highway Curves for roadway design and transition curves for ...tangent to spiral curve to circular curve
Primitive Wood Crafts
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back and forth to achieve any angle desired between the two
tangents:
A marking pen can then be used to draw the curve on your sub-roadbed. Hold
one template in place, remove the other template and trace along the
The main suite to @LionJim's and my offices used to (still does?) have a large one hanging above the entrance door.
Aero 1987To all my fellow nerds.....it's our day! Break out the protractors and the mechanical pencils and go design something!
Engineers Day 2021: Why it is celebrated on September 15 - all about Sir Visvesvaraya and his contributions
Engineers Day 2021 is here! Lets take a look at why it is celebrated every year on September 15 and what are the contributions Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya in the field of engineering. Lesser known facts here.
Does he belong to his professional engineering association? (ASME?). If not, suggest he join and look how to get active. If he has an ME niche he wants to into, have him seek out those organization(s).
There used to be what I believe was an instructional slide rule about 5 feet long in a classroom in Hammond. Then to the ESM dept heads office.
