Except what they teach you in engineering school, apparently.
I am about to learn everything.
Submitted 2 months ago by expatriado@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i stayed awake for at least 20% of lecture time, so there is that
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
I hear the chapter called “your girlfriend is studying abroad with stinky Frenchmen, and other pick-me scenarios to ruin your 20s” is particularly riveting.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
- All that math you learned? Forget it. You’re in spreadsheet land now.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That being said, it’s important to know how to sanity-check the math, especially in the era of Copilot in Excel. We just found that our company’s configuration enables it by default on new workbooks, as we found when it was just…making up numbers when asked to do simple addition.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Year 2194:
“Well, it’s like my ol’ papy copilot always used to say… 2 + 2 = null.”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did you like those fancy tools they gave you in school? You can cling to your memories of them as you attempt to recreate their functionality in excel without your boss noticing that you’re wasting time on this
bstix@feddit.dk 2 months ago
I had a programmer giving up on a task today and had to resort to VBA in Excel.
Excel is a shit program and Visual Basic is a shit language, but if you combine them, you can do things that are impossible in any other way.
Someone once said that you can make Excel do anything except coffee. I disagree. It can probably make coffee too.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There needs to be a required summer semester of engineering school called “being a mechanic.”
Okay college boy, put on a shirt with your name embroidered on it and come out here into the shop. Yeah it’s 110 degrees in the shade, you’ve got your buddy Tom Midgly Jr. to thank for that. Now take this wrench and take that bolt out. Oh it doesn’t come out because the oil pan is in the way? I wonder whose fault that is. No, we’re not gonna let it cool before dropping the oil pan, the customer is in the lobby. Yeah. It is 240 degrees. No, it doesn’t all drain out through the plug, there’s a half quart that doesn’t come out. Yes, you’re getting that on you. Don’t get any of it on the interior of the car when you back it out. Now take off the oil filter. Yes, you’re gonna burn the back of your hand on the exhaust manifold. You’re taking every Toyota oil filter off this summer. You’re gonna hold the burn mark on the back of your hand up like Tyler Durden.
Oh you’re going to be an aeronautical engineer. c’mere boy, we’re gonna take the wings off a 152 Aerobat, you get to pick the spar bolts out of the catalog, we’ll safety wire the control cable turnbuckles through those little inspection ports you types are so stingy with, and then we’ll take the bird you just reassembled up for a couple two or three hours of spin training to see if ya done it right. You ever do a snap roll? I’ll teach you more about the aerodynamics of maneuvering flight in 1.5 seconds than your physics professor did in a semester. Eat bananas for breakfast, they taste the same coming up as they do going down. And buddy they’re coming back up. Because of the special jug bolt wrench I had to buy, I’m gonna pull at least one breakfast back out of your face using nothing but stick and rudder.
lauha@lemmy.world 2 months ago
While I agree with what you say, the mechanics should also be involved in solving the problem of making all those easily accessible withing the constrains of the projects. It would give insight both ways
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
White collar engineers? Paying attention to blue collar techs? That’s the plot of the next Andy Weir novel, isn’t it? A hilariously naive notion of people working together to solve problems? Sounds like his work.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Good lesson plan. Then make them take some art and design courses.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“can you make this green a little bit more like the feeling of biting a butterfly? and also rewrite the copy to make it more crunchy. You have 1 hour, yes I know it’s 3am”
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You forgot to make them crawl into the wing wearing breathing ppe on a hot day to seal an integral fuel tank.
On a side note, I just changed the oil and filter on a Toyota yesterday. The only pain in the ass about it is that the damn mechanics completely ignored the torque requirement and overtightened the cartridge housing. I had to use an impact to remove something only supposed to be torqued to 18 ft lb. Otherwise everything is easy to access.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
LMAO, I’d never get PPE, unless someone died on the job first. That’s what it takes.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I couldn’t solve all the world’s problems if I was given this power, but it would make people who are damaged in the same way I am laugh for a couple months out of the year.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Generational toxic mechsulinity
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I studied electrical engineering, I had to do a mandatory internship of 10 weeks. Pretty sure the mechanical engineers had to do one too, but I suppose this varies a lot across countries.
lennee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
could be a cook book
MrMeowMeow@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It might be nothing but gardening tips
sundray@lemmus.org 2 months ago
It’s probably a concise history of Italian opera.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
nah, it’s usually bomb recipes.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Guess I’m a whole day late on a simalar joke…
polite_cat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
- Buy Factorio
- Start playing Factorio
- ???
- THE FACTORY MUST GROW
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I love factorio. I’ve owned it before they even had building rockets in the game. Played the shit out of it.
I dont know if its cause the game got more expansive and complicated, or if I just got old and stupid… but I just cant play it anymore. I can get a base started… but after an hour or 3 I just start struggling and give up.
I miss factorio.
peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Bro don’t exaggerate, Factorio came out in early access in 2016. That’s only… 10… Years ago… 💀💀💀💀💀💀
WandowsVista@lemmy.world 2 months ago
between that and an actual engineering school book, you’d have access to all the knowledge in the universe
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah seriously that book he’s holding his hand seems quite small for all the information it claims to contain.
WandowsVista@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Chapter 1: The Social Sciences
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Godspeed, I recently dropped out of engineering to go back into art, shits hard, you’re smart
PagPag@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good call.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know what they call an engineer who finished last in their class?
Spur4383@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Egninear?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
A public servant? Lol jk
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The answer is an engineer.
Nomad@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Stubborn?
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
Patent examiner
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
An asshole who was notably dead weight in every project?
m4xie@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Not engineer. It takes a few more years in industry and some more exams to get your P. Eng.
We often go into adjacent fields.
jeffep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I so wish this is a book about Humanities
Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Turn it off and turn it back on?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That picture does not show the really important information. Is it a brochure, or is it a foot-thick book?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If a professor at engineering school assigned this book, would it create a paradox?
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In before the book is all about cooking tips and tricks
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How to interact with other humans.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Image
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
According to my experience, the left one does not amount to much.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, books can’t teach you nepotism
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
No chapter about Late Sumerian?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ben Rich, aeronautical engineer and second head of Lockeed’s Skunkworks after Kelly Johnson mentions Harvard Business School in his autobiography. He was apparently sent to a program they taught there for professionals already working in industry to become more business savvy. Kelly Johnson sent Ben Rich to this program, and when Rich got back, Johnson asked him what he learned. He said “Okay let me show you.” and he turned to the blackboard and wrote “2/3 HBS = BS” on the blackboard.