Engineers *can be* dumb

[thylantyr 10+ year member]

Nobody believes me when I tell them that I've seen so many dumb engineers

{in person} in my career.

Maybe this post sheds some light.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=641358

So, I am ready to set up my first A/V receiver tonight and I open up the manual to my Harman/Kardon AVR 235 and begin reading and get totally lost by the 16th page.. Please, tell me it is not this difficult. As an Engineer, I thought this would be a pieve of cake, but they start talking about all these dolby modes and delays and compression... Where is the idiots guide for this thing!!!

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[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Can be?

Isn't the correct phrase, "engineers can be intelligent sometimes?" //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Hey, I'M an engineering major (arch. eng.). If an engineer can't figure out a fricking receiver, he either hasen't graduated, or is just plain stupid.

 

[thylantyr 10+ year member]

Imagine that guy on Apollo 13 ............ hehehe

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Imagine that guy on Apollo 13 ............ hehehe

*radio crackle*Uhh, Houston, we have a problem...

*long pause* Reading you loud and clear Apollo 13, what is your status?

*crackle* Ummm.....Yea..... Our Oxygen gague is going down pretty fast. Now I don't remember, is that a bad thing?

 

[Shugarra 10+ year member]

He doesn't say what kind of engineer he is, though. If he were electrical or computer I would be a little disturbed but if he is a civil or to a lesser extent mechanical there is no reason they should be expected to understand the intricacies of an electrical component (not that setting up a receiver is especially difficult, just saying). You don't expect a gynecologist to do brain surgery, even though he is a doctor, do you?

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Even mechanicals have to take electronics classes.

My dad is a M.E. and he knows at TON of electrical/electronic stuff, along with being like reallllly fricking smart.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Well, from my experience alot of the guys in my Electrical Engineering classes are just idiots. But, there are lots of engineers that are smart and savy with things and not total jerk offs...

 

[GemaRastem 10+ year member]

I am going to an all engineering school, lots of smart people here, but a lot more dumb *****. Luckily by senior year most of them have dropped out because this school is hardcore.

 

[ndnbolla 10+ year member]

Hey, the more retarded electrical engineering students we have as classmates, the better chance we have at finding a job. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

But hey, atleast the dude is reading the manual.

 

[mattmcss 10+ year member]

I am going to an all engineering school, lots of smart people here, but a lot more dumb *****. Luckily by senior year most of them have dropped out because this school is hardcore.

What school do ya go to ?

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

About any good engineering school is hardcore...

Kansas State University > *

 

[jrz126 10+ year member]

Yeah, I've seen my fair share of dumbass engineering students (I'm going for electrical and computer).

He's probably a professor or going to be one.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Go Hokies...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I'm the peculiar oddity...a business major who can read a schematic and doesn't draw a deer-in-the-headlights look when "Kirchoff's Voltage Law" is brought up in conversation. Just can't hack the calculus, though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Yeah, I've seen my fair share of dumbass engineering students (I'm going for electrical and computer).
He's probably a professor or going to be one.

Just remember,

Those who can do.

Those who can't teach.

Those who can't do either, administrate.