MrSnowy
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FP edit: thanks everyone! I still upvote all the comments (nested comments, too) and send engineering memes, amateur radio memes or engineering program product keys
Also, I'm a sophmore ECE right now, send internships please!
CapedPersuaderJ
*looking over posts. Meh, not great. *Reading tags. . . .did- did I miss a meme somewhere?
ShitBricks
For normal people engineering might not be fun, but for engineers it actually is. If you dont like it, dont do it. You'll just suffer
EdNigma1134
circlebreaker
I challenge anyone to find a single person who says this
MeowchanicalEngineer
Two kittens are on a sloped roof. Which one falls off first? The one with the lower mew!
prfesser
#8 Background: "Maybe". Results and Discussion: "I think so". Conclusion: "Yes". A one-page dissertation.
admiralgeneralmanbearpig
No one told me engineering school would be fun. They said getting to blow stuff up and use laser welders was fun.
tanksfornothing
Some of those are gonna give me nightmares. My instructor for the Fourier class was 2 weeks late and was NOT fluent. Fun times....not
CaimanCider
*Speaks English fluently.
KCTiger79
I remember LOLing so hard when they were pitching grad school to us. I was so done with that shit once I got my bachelor’s in EE.
MrSnowy
Going for my bachelor's in EE/comp. Engineering right now. I'm a sophmore, never heard a thing about grad school, and its offered where I go
GirdleTurtle
Numbers for Commenting: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20
FactsThatAreFeelingsAreOpinions
Literally no one have ever said studying engineering would be fun.
MyOcIsContent
As a failed Mechatronic's engineer... I don't miss a minute of it
Zahnradfee
As a failed Mechatronics engineer... I do miss it. (Health and financial reasons for quitting.)
Gerolanfalan
I have the utmost respect for you engineering and analytical folk out there, what you study/do is my nightmare actualized.
Raecracy123abc
Hey I have a date with a an engineer on Tuesday!
TedTheMan
How did it go? Was he cool?
Raecracy123abc
No :-( nothing wrong with the guy just boring. I can't even describe why he was boring because there is nothing to describe.
Raecracy123abc
I'll see him maybe once again to see if something changes but, eh *shrug*
TedTheMan
Boring isn't cure able. But hey you didn't get sold into slavery.
Raecracy123abc
Yeah *sigh* that would at least been excitable.
Rukel
I don't think quantum mechanics belongs to engineering.
leftyepee
I said the same thing to my nanoscale energy transfer professor.
asanimgurianiliealot
Neither did I but I still had to take that shit to become a ChemE. Least favorite class I ever had.
Zahnradfee
Unless you're designing computer chips.
Roacheater
Yeah...although we physicists should throw a bone to the nuclear engineers
SergeantOldSchool
TIL: You can math anything
JustABonelessAlien
I'm on my third year of studying it and know absolutely nothing.
DavidSchatz1337
All kidding aside that one clean ass breaker box
MyOcIsContent
thelaud
FourGreenFields
My friend doesn't get it. Could you explain it to him?
Dashspin
Cos(b) = cosby
jetman1999
In my freshmen year of aerospace engineering, I’m ready for hell
Justawhitedude
Good luck. Aero and Chem were considered the hardest disciplines at my school (I was chem). It gets better...eventually
gx67
It gets better. Not necessarily easier, but better. At least by your fourth year the courses are usually actually classes and not weedouts.
asanimgurianiliealot
My experience was first two years were cake. Then pro school starts and shit gets tough.
rugmiem
How true is #1?
azqxwce
Most of my EE professors are Russian or Chinese. There are a few americans and Indian professors though. Learn to understand every accent
MrSnowy
In my electronics 1 class, my professor is black, born in france, and raised in southern asia. He doesn't speak much english, but he's (1/2)
MrSnowy
One of the best professors I've ever had. (2/2)
alex5775
Sort of. Most speak English pretty well but often have thick accents. It can take some getting used to, but you can usually understand 1/2
alex5775
them without problem if you just pay attention and keeping going to class. You get used to it
Flyndaran
Not everyone is good with even weak let alone strong non-English accents.
DavidBrooker
In my department, a significant fraction of profs are native-born or from other English-speaking countries. But we might be weird.
DavidBrooker
Probably about half? Most of the Iranian and Indian profs have really mild accents too.
leftyepee
Bro, I had a Dynamics with a professor who was from China and then had a stroke that paralyzed half his face. I understood maybe 2 words.
Lemonaidan
Any advice for a freshman mech engineering major?
toolazytothinkofone
Sit up front every technical class. Ask questions. Do your homework in the library that day before you go home to relax.
JasonAbbadon
Pray for death?
gramps
Take the time to read the book. It'll help you actually understand the concepts, which makes solving problems much much easier.
Snaggley
If you have trouble staying focused go to the library. Start your work early, I’ve had many days where I didn’t sleep becaus I put off a lab
Snaggley
Go to office hours if you don’t understand something. Do a lot of practice problems. Before a test I always redo all my homework.
MrSnowy
This. Don't be afraid to admit you don't understand the material. Also, studying all throughout a semester and not just before a final 1/2
MrSnowy
Will help you long term. You'll retain the information a lot better 2/2
MrSnowy
And get 8 hours of sleep. It's more important than you think
Snaggley
Start studying in advance because you’ll realize you don’t understand it so you have time to study. Sleep the night before an exam.
Snaggley
Don’t take multiple labs that have full lab reports. I did that and spent 20 hours every other week on lab reports
Snaggley
Also do all your work and go to class. You won’t do well if you don’t try. Don’t look up solutions online try to figure them out yourself.
tpgreyknight
ExtraZOIDBERG
I got (5/2)*pi
BenderBenderBender
Int(sin(x)/x) from (0, inf] = pi/2 bottle = 10, ????=2 so equation = 5*pi/2
tpgreyknight
yep, see the other comment chain; I flubbed the lower limit at first
BenderBenderBender
I missed that thread. My bad, pal. I was just excited to see someone else in the comments tried the equation too. Cheers to my fellow nerds!
mechandphysics
The solution when I posted this: http://imgur.com/a2KN2fd
TehRap
I'm like 90% sure that integral is solvable
tpgreyknight
He means there's no convenient algebraic representation for the indefinite integral: see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SineIntegral.html
tpgreyknight
TLDR: "it's a huge mess"
tpgreyknight
Yep, corrected myself below. BTW disappointed you didn't carry out your solution in hot dogs :-(
alonebutihaveadog
I'M disappointed they didn't solve the integral by using Laplace transforms.
MyOcIsContent
MrSnowy
It's the third derivative of position relative to time, "jerk". Unrelated, but the fourth, fifth, and sixth are "snap, crackle, pop"
Zahnradfee
Ah. That's only understandable for native english speakers. Thanks for explaining.
Minnakht
Unless you know it as "jolt" or "jounce," but yeah
superbob201
I learned it jerk->jounce->jank->snap->crackle->pop
seandel20189000
I thought it was acceleration and i was thinking: 'dont be an accel...dont be an asshole' but yea yours makes more sense
Goodmorningvodka
#1
ricerescue
What language do they usually speak?
WellAckchually
When I was in school the physics teachers were Russian, the math teachers Chinese, and the engineering teachers from all over east Europe.
jcw99
Korean
sharerimagethesimple
Pakistani, Indian, Chinese. As a former ME student have had all
GreekTrojan
I got Russian and one prof who had the thickest french accent I've ever heard.
Ilikepinkfloyd
Neutrinos don't travel faster than the speed of light. They travel near to the speed of light and have the ability to shapeshift (1/2)
Ilikepinkfloyd
Which results in them travelling at exactly the speed of light.
superbob201
There was a miscalibration at CERN a couple years back that appeared to indicate some neutrinos traveled faster than c.
Ilikepinkfloyd
Yeah around 2011. What a time to be a physics student. It drove us absolutely bonkers.
tpgreyknight
No, neutrino oscillation is how we figured out they DON'T travel at exactly lightspeed.
Ilikepinkfloyd
Oh, you're right, I'm mistaken. Pardon me.
redfactor4
Wow, very civil, good on you
Ilikepinkfloyd
That's hardly civil! What was I supposed to do? Put up a senseless argument to soothe my ego?
MrBoogerPig
That was a wild ride
Ilikepinkfloyd
How? 2 statements and a contradiction?
MrSnowy
Also every comment gets an upvote from me
TrapDaddyTrump
Every comment gets an upvote. Nuggets the
Shewy92
Upvote if you like vagine
PenguinsAreTheBest
Every comment you say? Well that's interesting because 1/5000
tpgreyknight
Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family.
MrSnowy
if someone does this, i WILL upvote every little one
Letthekidhitmeintheass
Never mess with an engineer ????
Ironblitz
I'm supposed to be working on my DE homework, so this seems like a reasonable use of my time. It all started back (1 of 6*10^32)
Ironblitz
when I was a child. Always pressured to go to college and the like. My dad was a programmer at that time and really (2 of 6*10^32)
Ironblitz
wanted me to do that. Despite working at home, he never taught me any code. Odd, i thought (3 of 6*10^32)
LithiumOd
2/5000
GiveMeBeerOrGiveMeDeath
3/5000
CannabalisticSpaceRapArtist
3/5000
XIIV13C100111
4/5000
SCOTTYBOII79
4/5000
revengespooner
5/5000
WhiteDemon
I took a thermodynamics class and ended with a 32%, the class was curved so hard I ended up with a B
DNJANinSFL
Beyond irritating they allow classes to be dumbed down. If you don't pass you shouldn't pass, no bell curve. Study get smarter, no compromis
Justawhitedude
I got a 69 (lol) on a stagewise separations test once and it was the highest grade in the class. Which is dumb.
MikeArclight
... a curve so hard it's non-euclidian?
RedIronCrown
If you think about it, the best grade for an engineering student should be barely passing, as it means they studied exactly enough.
BananaSlam
P chem was like that for me haha
BananaSlam
... replied to the wrong comment fuck
Morg729
I'm in my first week of it, we haven't learned anything yet
LetumComplexo
I once destroyed a curve in that a materials engineering class. People ended up walking out with 40% that would have passed.
wolfrenegade
The final average for my materials final was a 40% shit's ridiculous
TheMachineKill3r
Thermo is as difficult as professors want to make it. If they had multiple choice with no work out credit, fuck that..
Justawhitedude
One of my thermo tests was 3 questions. And one was "Derive the third law of thermo from the first." Which has been useful in my career...
ProudFatherOfaBionicSushiRoll
I am horrible at exams but great in the lab. Wish labs were weighed more than exams.
DaBussySlaya
Thermo and fluidynamics are the worst papers to teach to undergrads just heading into actual engineering knowledge.
nclu
Same happened when (as undergrad) I took a post-bac econometrics course.
ClassyReposts
How is curving still a thing? You don't care if they can do the thing, you only care how much worse than the others they are? How bad of a
ClassyReposts
Teacher are you if you state straight up from the beginning that you will fail to educate a set percentage of your pupils?
PotatoThunder
Lowest averages I ever saw were about 10% consistently in my analog and digital class. We called it Anal Dig.
SV97
I raise 9% average on my last (analog)electronics exam. Professor said it was all basics :D
PotatoThunder
Bro. Just...yeah bro I feel you. Hang in there.
SV97
Oh, my mark was fine compared to the rest, but thanks :) it just sucks for the people that have to go because of such bullshit
juxtaposedwanderer
I don’t understand this line of thought. If no one knows enough to get higher than 10%, then how is the class useful to a degree?
DavidBrooker
In an established course, that's unacceptable. But for a new technical elective or unpolished grad course, it's just tuned badly.
DavidBrooker
eg: with the expectation that next year will be better
GreekTrojan
Burn class, like O Chem in med school. Its to weed out lazy/undedicated/disciplined people from higher degrees.
PotatoThunder
I firmly believe it's more about finding the people who will NEVER give up than it is about specific knowledge. That's what makes engineers.
Angaram
Wait what where do they do that? I simply fail if I get under 50%. Well, just like 80% of the other students.
DavidBrooker
Often the relationship between raw grade, normalized grade, and letter grade are completely up to the discretion of the Prof.
derock789
Most of the more advanced engineering classes like fluids and such scale pretty hard since nobody ever gets even close to a good grade.
Angaram
Yeah I'm taking uni classes in Germany and they don't. It sucks. Thermodynamics and dynamic systems are horrible. I wish they scaled.
Angaram
And just why does imgur give me no notification on replies.
derock789
Hell some of my high school classes like physics got scaled up like 3 letter grades since nobody could get above a 60 o n anything.
vulturedoors
At the HS level that's bad teaching more than it is difficult course material.
derock789
Very true. Although with AP courses it's more a time constraint than anything. They have to teach calculus based physics to kids who 1/2
DavidBrooker
My worst undergrad course - Foundations of the Finite Element Method - saw the top grade in the course be around 20% (a grad student).
DavidBrooker
No actual FEM work - just the mathematical background. Variational methods for continuum mechanics and their descretization.
zamirovski
Yeah... civ.eng. third year. FEM is mandatory for those who want to calculate and design sructures... I took one look and said FickThat. 1/2
zamirovski
2/2 and went the other way - construction management. 10 years later and I am a design manager telling other engineers what to do.
agoldenbear
Did you end up graduating as civ eng or did you switch majors?
MitchBeaucannon
While making three times their money, I guess?
DavidBrooker
The actual FEA course where you learned to use software was an easy-A joke. This course was all paper calculations like proving that 1/2
DavidBrooker
specific methods would converge, deriving methodologies, and so on (and the solutions themselves were irrelevant/unimportant). 2/2