Current Student for Industrial Engineering at Purdue.
Navy Nuclear Power Trained
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Then I think my degree is the nerdiest.
M.S. Systems Engineering.
"What do you do?"
"I produce paper."
"Oh, like Dunder Mifflin?"
"No, I spend my day writing documents - product requirements, work breakdowns, concept of operations, risk assessments, product life analysis, trade studies, system engineering plans, configuration management, specif...HEY! Did you fall asleep?"
I am an engineer, and I agree with this. Engineers need to cut their teeth in the place where their work dictates how somebody else does their work. Once they understand that they can create more efficient designs. FWIW, I could step onto the machinist floor and do their job ~80% if I had to. My experience in the machine shop allows me to better understand what they are capable of and what makes their job very hard.I believe all (mechanical) engineers should have to spend time on the service line before they are set free to cram components into designs wherever AutoCad claims they'll fit.
My dad is also an "engineer without a degree". I cannot credit him enough with the awesome up-bringing I had. I wouldn't be an engineer without all those nights in the farm-shop tinkering around with stuff, with dad right there beside us "making things better" and teaching us what he knows. I can honestly say I don't know half of what that man knows when it comes to hands-on, practical life-skills....Same with my dad. He never got a degree, and was more intelligent and skilled than his degreed peers. Of course, he worked for DOD, which means that the less-capable ones got the promotions over him, merely because they had degrees.
Pike Alum here...So many Rose alums, and surprisingly enough I even find a fellow Pike alum. And I even met this one in a previous life!
B.S. CS/CE - 2001
Uh, yeah, if you could get those TPS reports turned in, that would be great...
I'm a nuke, does that count?
I'm not an Engineer, but I work with many of them, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical Design, and Environmental.
I have great respect for Engineers, and I love hanging out with them because it's the one group in which I feel like I can more than hold my own socially.