Not strictly true. The most common path to becoming an engineer is to get a degree in engineering, and then get your engineering work experience (4 years minimum around here) and then get your P.E.certification. It is possible to challenge the professional exams if you have enough engineering experience and knowledge through work. Not very common, but guys who have worked their way up "from the shop floor" are usually hugely respected.
Not sure what you mean by "those who have a PE certified by us and only us". Who exactly do you want to certify engineers? The National Florists Association?
I don't know what it says about our society, but as a profession teaching has low barriers to entry and a large supply of new graduates that keep the "teacher supply" up and therefore keep the "teacher price" down.
"Would those people who chose PEng have had similar outcomes in a different career due to their own personalities/drives/interests?"
You hit the nail on the head. We are hiring an Engineering Physics graduate. This person is an almost ridiculous overachiever. 3.5 GPA in Eng Phys, black belts in Tae Kwan Do, teaches classical $ethnic dance, designed and implemented motor control system for student built submersible ROV, well spoken, articulate, organized, hard working, driven. (Side note: as an EE I freely admit that Eng Phys-ers are smarter than me. There. I said it.)
If this person had decided to get an MBA or be a lawyer or doctor or dentist, I have no doubt she would have succeeded just as well in those fields.
Replying to myself. At our university, (back in the day) engineering was a four year program that came after a mandatory first year of science. There was a wide variation between high schools, some had calculus, some didn't; some taught basic electromagnetics in Physics 12 and some didn't bother. The purpose of first year science was to bring everybody up to the same level before they entered engineering.
Engineering schools are known for insane workloads. Third year EE was almost 40 hours of classes and labs plus at least 1 - 1.5 hours assignments and problem sets per hour of class. It was totally common for people to add an extra year to an undergrad engineering program just to spread out the workload.
I'm just paraphrasing some of the comments on TFA here. Some of the fields need a Masters or PHD to enter the profession. Not surprising that a bachelors degree in Psychology gets you diddly squat, if you need a Phd to get licensed.
It's true. You need to keep your blood level even. Once your blood level is more than 10 degrees off vertical, you will feel ill, have trouble sleeping and be driven to commit crimes such as rape, murder and Pope abuse. Once your blood level reaches 15 degrees off vertical you will have toothaches, limb drop and orificial seepage. You will scruple at nothing, and will return library books late. Once your blood level is 20 degrees off vertical you are mostly fixin to DIE!
How do you rent a car or book a hotel room without a credit card? Genuinely curious. I had no CC for a few years after I graduated until I wanted to start traveling and found it almost impossible to do it without a credit card.
It took 50 years from the first Surgeon General's report on the dangers of smoking till smoking was banned here in all workplaces.
1. These kinds of massive changes take time. 2. Despite all the lobbying and all the PR spin and all the PAC donations and all the flat out fucking lies spouted by the tobacco industry, in the end they lost. Per capita smoking is now about 1/3 of the peak amount and trending downward.
If this is supposed to be 6/2x(1+2) the answer is 9. If this is supposed to be 6/(2x(1+2)) the answer is 1. As written it is ambiguous.
If you want to illustrate precedence errors pick an example like 2+3x5. Proper precedence (multiply first then add) = 17. Not using precedence, evaluated left to right, (common error) = 25.
RPN won't prevent you from doing it wrong, but it does make it easier to do it right.
Just to be clear, the exterior wall framing is covered in a layer of OSB or plywood sheathing (usually 11mm) which gives the wall its shear strength. The vinyl or aluminum siding is for looks and water resistance, and is not structural.
Here in Canada what we call "wall to wall" carpeting (as opposed to a rug which lays loose on the floor) in homes is almost never glued down. Standard install is to use tackless strips along all the walls, carpet is stretched and hooked onto the strips. It is more or less "permanent", unlike rugs which you can pick up and clean outside. And, yes, we take our shoes off when we come in the house. I did that at my cousin's place in Santa Clara and got some strange looks. Everybody else left their shoes on.
"there is no theoretical basis for assuming that the data is not retrievable after the device is powered down"
Is this what Slashdot has come to? How sad.
RAM and CPU are DRAM and will lose data if not refreshed about every 64 ms or less. Once the power is off the refresh stops and the DRAM cells lose their charge (and their stored data) in less than a tenth of a second.
The reason many people hold politicians in contempt is because politicians promise to do something, get elected, and then don't do it or promise not to do something, get elected, and then do it anyway. Call it lies, broken promises, lack of honour, pragmatism, whatever you like. Saying "It's not his fault" is merely excusing contemptibly bad behaviour. It's not complicated - Deliver what you promise, don't promise what you can't deliver.
Almost every white collar worker uses a computer all day long to do their work. These computers are probably 95% or more running some version of MS Windows. I'm curious to know how Linux will make this all obsolete. I'm also curious to know when this is going happen.
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Sure. Just like reacting to things makes you a reactionary.
I tell my iphone - Call. Jane. Bonner.
iphone says - Calling Dave Norwood.
Iphone voice dialling totally useless at the moment. Maybe they should fix that first.
The only proper defense against nuclear cellphone radiation is a HOSTS FILE written by a LADYBOY CHIROPRACTOR!!
Not strictly true. The most common path to becoming an engineer is to get a degree in engineering, and then get your engineering work experience (4 years minimum around here) and then get your P.E.certification. It is possible to challenge the professional exams if you have enough engineering experience and knowledge through work. Not very common, but guys who have worked their way up "from the shop floor" are usually hugely respected.
Not sure what you mean by "those who have a PE certified by us and only us". Who exactly do you want to certify engineers? The National Florists Association?
I don't know what it says about our society, but as a profession teaching has low barriers to entry and a large supply of new graduates that keep the "teacher supply" up and therefore keep the "teacher price" down.
"Would those people who chose PEng have had similar outcomes in a different career due to their own personalities/drives/interests?"
You hit the nail on the head. We are hiring an Engineering Physics graduate. This person is an almost ridiculous overachiever. 3.5 GPA in Eng Phys, black belts in Tae Kwan Do, teaches classical $ethnic dance, designed and implemented motor control system for student built submersible ROV, well spoken, articulate, organized, hard working, driven. (Side note: as an EE I freely admit that Eng Phys-ers are smarter than me. There. I said it.)
If this person had decided to get an MBA or be a lawyer or doctor or dentist, I have no doubt she would have succeeded just as well in those fields.
Replying to myself. At our university, (back in the day) engineering was a four year program that came after a mandatory first year of science. There was a wide variation between high schools, some had calculus, some didn't; some taught basic electromagnetics in Physics 12 and some didn't bother. The purpose of first year science was to bring everybody up to the same level before they entered engineering.
Engineering schools are known for insane workloads. Third year EE was almost 40 hours of classes and labs plus at least 1 - 1.5 hours assignments and problem sets per hour of class. It was totally common for people to add an extra year to an undergrad engineering program just to spread out the workload.
I'm just paraphrasing some of the comments on TFA here. Some of the fields need a Masters or PHD to enter the profession. Not surprising that a bachelors degree in Psychology gets you diddly squat, if you need a Phd to get licensed.
It's true. You need to keep your blood level even. Once your blood level is more than 10 degrees off vertical, you will feel ill, have trouble sleeping and be driven to commit crimes such as rape, murder and Pope abuse. Once your blood level reaches 15 degrees off vertical you will have toothaches, limb drop and orificial seepage. You will scruple at nothing, and will return library books late. Once your blood level is 20 degrees off vertical you are mostly fixin to DIE!
So you're the guy.
How do you rent a car or book a hotel room without a credit card? Genuinely curious. I had no CC for a few years after I graduated until I wanted to start traveling and found it almost impossible to do it without a credit card.
It took 50 years from the first Surgeon General's report on the dangers of smoking till smoking was banned here in all workplaces.
1. These kinds of massive changes take time.
2. Despite all the lobbying and all the PR spin and all the PAC donations and all the flat out fucking lies spouted by the tobacco industry, in the end they lost. Per capita smoking is now about 1/3 of the peak amount and trending downward.
Mortar?
My kids are in school with 2nd generation Chinese and Korean kids. They call a "B" on a test an "Asian Fail".
If this is supposed to be 6/2x(1+2) the answer is 9. If this is supposed to be 6/(2x(1+2)) the answer is 1. As written it is ambiguous.
If you want to illustrate precedence errors pick an example like 2+3x5. Proper precedence (multiply first then add) = 17. Not using precedence, evaluated left to right, (common error) = 25.
RPN won't prevent you from doing it wrong, but it does make it easier to do it right.
Just to be clear, the exterior wall framing is covered in a layer of OSB or plywood sheathing (usually 11mm) which gives the wall its shear strength. The vinyl or aluminum siding is for looks and water resistance, and is not structural.
Here in Canada what we call "wall to wall" carpeting (as opposed to a rug which lays loose on the floor) in homes is almost never glued down. Standard install is to use tackless strips along all the walls, carpet is stretched and hooked onto the strips. It is more or less "permanent", unlike rugs which you can pick up and clean outside. And, yes, we take our shoes off when we come in the house. I did that at my cousin's place in Santa Clara and got some strange looks. Everybody else left their shoes on.
"there is no theoretical basis for assuming that the data is not retrievable after the device is powered down"
Is this what Slashdot has come to? How sad.
RAM and CPU are DRAM and will lose data if not refreshed about every 64 ms or less. Once the power is off the refresh stops and the DRAM cells lose their charge (and their stored data) in less than a tenth of a second.
The reason many people hold politicians in contempt is because politicians promise to do something, get elected, and then don't do it or promise not to do something, get elected, and then do it anyway. Call it lies, broken promises, lack of honour, pragmatism, whatever you like. Saying "It's not his fault" is merely excusing contemptibly bad behaviour. It's not complicated - Deliver what you promise, don't promise what you can't deliver.
As it was, is now and shall forever be. World without end, Amen.
Almost every white collar worker uses a computer all day long to do their work. These computers are probably 95% or more running some version of MS Windows. I'm curious to know how Linux will make this all obsolete. I'm also curious to know when this is going happen.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Reactionary - extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
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