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Engineer Identification Test
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Engineering is so trendy these days that everybody wants to be one. The word "engineer" is greatly overused. If there's somebody in your life who you think is trying to pass as an engineer, give him this test to discern the truth.
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You walk into a room and notice that a picture is hanging crooked. You...
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1. Straighten it.
2. Ignore it.
3. Buy a CAD system and spend the next six months designing a solar-powered, self-adjusting picture frame.
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The correct answer is "C" but partial credit can be given to anybody who writes "It depends." in the margin of the test or simply blames the whole stupid thing on "Marketing
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The Top 10 Things Engineering School Didn't Teach
#10. There are at least 10 types of capacitors.
#9. Theory tells you how a circuit works, not why it does not work.
#8. Not everything works according to the specs in the data book.
#7. Anything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, except the complex math, which you will never use.
#6. Always try to fix the hardware with software.
#5. Engineering is like having an 8 a.m. class and a late afternoon lab every day for the rest of your life.
#4. Overtime pay? What overtime pay?
#3. Managers, not engineers, rule the world.
#2. If you like junk food, caffeine and all-nighters, go into software.
#1. Dilbert is a documentary.
