Alcaid said:
My dad got a degree in Civil Engineering, but ended up being Gulf Canada's top petroleum engineer...
dave
I'm a second year mechanical engineer and premed student (yea, I'm crazy) at UCSB's engineering school. I might get my M.S. in materials or nanotechnology. So, I guess I don't count quite yet.
Mechanical Engineer since 1973 and it counts for zero in this hobby.... had to start from scratch and learn as I went along.... as you do with most things.
gengis,
If he is, I've never heard of him, musta retired or is just working quietly behind the lines...
If he is, I've never heard of him, musta retired or is just working quietly behind the lines...
Geomatics engineer (they used to call it surveying). Didn't know diddly about electronics till after I graduated. My second day on the job I was handed a soldering iron. Of course, that was over 20 years ago. I'm sure things are much more civilized now.
/Dave
/Dave
I have a dusty BEng honours in EE from 1993. I never used it for work, and nowadays I call myself a computer engineer.
Although friends always ask me to fix PC's or stereos or whatever, I'm charging my time now, as I'm in between jobs..
Although friends always ask me to fix PC's or stereos or whatever, I'm charging my time now, as I'm in between jobs..
I think i went to school with Laplace, Fourier was sitting in the second row.
In my first year of college i fiddled with audio circuits, my 1st year mates told me that was old stuff, they did that in highschool.
I learned a lot from the system regulating college, stuff about feedforward and feedback systems.
Fortunately i was not the only ex-navy guy with piercings and tattoo's who tried to transform to nerd-dom, a fellow student engineering friend was a navy submarine captain.
My first audio amplifier project turned into a nice bonfire at switch-on.
As for lightbulbs, i tend to electrocute myself with that 2 out of 3, no kidding !
On one ocassion i managed to get nice electric sparkles popping out of my skin, making beautifull black round holes in me, on 230 voltage .
In my first year of college i fiddled with audio circuits, my 1st year mates told me that was old stuff, they did that in highschool.
I learned a lot from the system regulating college, stuff about feedforward and feedback systems.
Fortunately i was not the only ex-navy guy with piercings and tattoo's who tried to transform to nerd-dom, a fellow student engineering friend was a navy submarine captain.
My first audio amplifier project turned into a nice bonfire at switch-on.
As for lightbulbs, i tend to electrocute myself with that 2 out of 3, no kidding !
On one ocassion i managed to get nice electric sparkles popping out of my skin, making beautifull black round holes in me, on 230 voltage .
Me ? who wants to ask me that question ? Yes..ok .. I'm an ex merchant N engineer alright.....tourist class steam loco fireman, ...somehow got degree electronics since 1972 .... first love of electronics in 1959 ...shorted an AC/DC chassis with the mains plug w.w.r. with a scope earth..
...Mains fuse ? there wasn't one only the 30 A distribution fuse
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richj
...Mains fuse ? there wasn't one only the 30 A distribution fuse.richj
richwalters said:Me ? who wants to ask me that question ? Yes..ok .. I'm an ex merchant N engineer alright.....tourist class steam loco fireman, ...somehow got degree electronics since 1972 .... first love of electronics in 1959 ...shorted an AC/DC chassis with the mains plug w.w.r. with a scope earth..
richj
Daddy ?
The lights went out but he never suspected it was me ......until I came out with a smoking shirt and tried to hide it ??
Be honest.......the flash was so great I couldn't see anything for a little while....nor could I hear......fortunately none lasted.....only to be shouted at ever after......
richj
richj
HFGuy said:
So how do we actually calculate the percentage based on a voluntary show of hands? Anyone?
🙂ensen.
PS: Industrial design is my job. 6 years at uni but no degree. My most valuable training comes from my hobbies.. design and construction of human powered vehicles and now diyAudio. Always amazing how much our passions motivate learning.
I'm an engineer since 1989. Chemical by education, but I worked most of my career in controls. Right now I'm back to process.
As for the term "engineer", Canada is different in that using the title is actually regulated by provicial laws. Free use of that title is actually illegal, although it can be tough to fight in some courts since the provincial laws are not worded exactly the same. Some provinces are in a battle right now with Microsoft to shut down their use of "Engineer" in those course degrees they grant.
As for the term "engineer", Canada is different in that using the title is actually regulated by provicial laws. Free use of that title is actually illegal, although it can be tough to fight in some courts since the provincial laws are not worded exactly the same. Some provinces are in a battle right now with Microsoft to shut down their use of "Engineer" in those course degrees they grant.
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