Best Engineering...

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Poll question: Best Engineering...

[Shakeydave]

1. Planning is the best answer to Engineering!

I didn't have any other option but "Other"!

[DrWeird]

2. genetic

nt

[Maple]

3. Agree

genetic.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Environmental

It's the only one that really promotes sustainability

[Nikia]

5. They all address different problems

Certainly most, if not all of them, are important to society. I have marveled at many feats of engineering. I am especially amazed by the highway construction in some cities. It is not what I would want to do if I were an engineer and find it to be most useful to society but I am amazed by highways that are built in multiple levels.

[Endangered Specie]

6. kick.

:kick:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. You included "civil" in there?

Come on, we all know that civil engineering is the bottom rung.

[Endangered Specie]

8. Boy you are about to get hurt!

Civil is by far the superior engineering!

Heathen Blasphemer.

;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Sure,that's why so many who can't handle the civil engineering

program end up moving into electrical or nuclear, and not vice versa.

:-)

I know at my school it went like this: people who couldn't handle electrical, went into mechanical. Those who couldn't handle mechanical went into industrial.

There was no one who couldn't handle industrial who moved into mechanical or electrical; and no one who couldn't handle mechanical who went into electrical.

And if we had civil engineering, it would have been the last resort of the people who couldn't handle industrial.

:-)

[Endangered Specie]

10. Well I am majoring in CE (that is why Civil is option 1 btw)...

the pecking order (at least here) is something like Nuclear->Electrical->Civil->Mechanical, Material->Industrial, Construction
(computer science is really seperated, they are a completely different piece of work)
But the truth is, people ususally dont drop from one to another, they just drop of out engineering altogether.

Then again, this poll was supposed to reflect more than just academic toughness, but things like contribution and the general interest level of the material.

Civil takes the cake on that, we are the most peaceful enginnering (we dont build weapons, we build targets), and you can see what we do EVERYWHERE :P

Oh, and we are also the most "normal" bunch, the EE people are absolute nerds, mechanical are a dime a dozen and mostly ROTC/military types, nuclear people are just freaky.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. LOL!

I love the war betwixt the engineers.

And truth is, all the engineers are necessary. I don't think any hold any more weight than any other. Academically, there are differences, yes.

And as you say, the EEs tend to be the most nerdish. That was my experience in school, too.

And yeah, mechanical ARE a dime a dozen.

Thoguh at my school people tended more to drop through the ranks, at least one spot, before dropping out entirely.

[gbwarming]

12. You're pissin me off with the 'dime a dozen'. Sheesh

Ya egghead, sparky, target builders

Chicks dig Gearheads.

[Endangered Specie]

14. When it comes to chicks... size matters.

Civil = biggest ;)

[gbwarming]

16. Face it dude, we're all nerds.

Fortunately it doesn't really matter.

One of the things it took me a long time to realize was that every moderate sized city and town across the nation has a civil engineer. Aspen, Tahoe, you name it. Pretty cool. (well, so does Fresno, but let's not dwell on that)

I studied ME but I really like working on projects where I can do mechatronic kinds of things - mechanical, electrical, software.

[SotarrTheWizard]

20. no, according to my daughters and some new show on Cartoon Network. . .

. . ."chicks dig Giant Robots". . . .

Of course, I only watched it because Bruce Campbell had a cameo. . . otherwise, a sort of Jay-and-not-so-silent-Bob as gearheads. . .

[Endangered Specie]

13. Yes, Engineering war is fun

A few others...

you cant spell GEEK with out EE
Industrial Enginnering = Imagineering.
Mechanical is the ranch dressing of Engineering
(in return for that I get the "mechanical build weapons, civil build targets" one)

Though, I sometimes try to promote peace between the factions, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that we are all superior to the rest of the academic fields ;) :shiteatinggrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. And that's the truth - engineering is the superior academic field

A very important truth, indeed.

And check out my "I'm an engiNERD" thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1758535

[SotarrTheWizard]

21. True. . .

. . unlike those in the social sciences, we engineers can show concrete, measurable results every time. We're SUPPOSED to make value judgements, because a bad judgement in engineering can get people hurt or killed. . .

[barackmyworld]

15. biomedical is awesome

It was my major for a semester until I failed my premed classes ;(
It's ok now, government is wayyyy better.

[SmileyBoy]

17. Civil engineering.

Although I'm an architecture major, I'm deeply intrested in civil engineering.

[Beware the Beast Man]

19. Toilet Partition and Locker Engineering

My line of work! :hi:

[bleedingheart]

22. I am an Industrial engineer - I save you time and money

and my speciality is simulation. Computer simulation of manufacturing as well as healthcare, aerospace...etc