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What is engineering????????????

04/27/2009 4:39 AM

What is engineering????????????

WHAT AN ENGINEER DO???

What is the difference between an engineer and a bechelor??
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04/27/2009 4:42 AM

Strewth!

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04/27/2009 5:10 AM

Look at just about every object around you. (which isn't actually alive)
Either the object or the means of producing the object has been designed and engineered.
You watch, the mug on your desk, the desk, the pencil, the building, your car...these all require design and engineering input...
Not to mention the PC and the electricity to power it.

Dunno what a 'Bechelor' is.

Try asking a more specific question, 'engineering' as a whole is a huge topic.

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04/27/2009 5:56 AM

What is the difference between an engineer and a beachelor??

Some engineers are married.

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04/27/2009 6:35 AM

Yeah, and some bankers bachelors are accountants

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04/27/2009 6:38 AM

Some bachelors are women!

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04/27/2009 6:44 AM

Some engineers are cats.

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04/27/2009 7:38 AM

And squirrels and Bears and even Ducks.

(Aliens and us are not counted in the even's since we have to be for our existence on this rock)

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04/27/2009 10:15 AM

No, no. Is not 'beachelor', is 'bechalor'. You not doing MY codes Igor!

Bechalor is someone who says "I becha that would work" without having a clue.

Yestaday i coudn even speel unganeer, today i are one!

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04/27/2009 5:30 PM

An engineer is more that just a designer. An engineer designs things to meet specifications, and sometimes the engineer must determine what those specifications are.

Then there are the engineers that run locomotives, and operating engineers that run the boiler room of a large building.

One thing all engineers have in common: they make things work. Some by their designs, some by operating.

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04/27/2009 10:23 PM

and most some by chance

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04/28/2009 1:27 PM

In North America operating engineers operate heavy eguipment,steam engineers operate boilers.
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05/01/2009 1:19 PM

Yeah, and garbage collectors are Sanitation Engineers.

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04/28/2009 10:58 PM

In Oil Rigs engineers are drillers

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