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DanMarotta12-Amethyst
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December 15, 2010
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Things not to say to an engineer

  • December 15, 2010
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If you work in an office, you are no doubt subject to office cliches. The movie Office Space immediately comes to mind.

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As an engineer, are there things that are said that especially irks you?

"Can you make this tiny tweak?"

"What would it look like if we added this?"

"Can we take this offline?"

"Someone has a case of the Monday's."

These are just a few of my guesses. I'm not a design engineer, so I would love to hear your perspective.


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    ptc-44864571-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    August 17, 2012

    "You Know ProE right??"

    or Can you fix this up in ProE real quick..

    And I am done for the day fixing or teaching..

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      Bari14-Alexandrite
      14-Alexandrite
      August 17, 2012

      Boss - I need this done.

      Me - For when?

      Boss - Yesterday!!!

        Dale_Rosema
        Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
        23-Emerald III
        August 17, 2012

        You just push a buttom and can update all the drawings.

        (Our drawings are in a viewer stored a .dwgs - several hour update sometimes)

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          ptc-32606521-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          August 21, 2012

          I had a guy ask me, "Did you design this?" He then proceeded to show me how it didn't fit. Turns out he didn't install the part correctly. After some measurements we made I was able to go and ask him, "Did you install this?"

          ______________

          "I have a question for ya, yer an engineer." (A few seconds later) "You don't know, I thought you're an engineer." Just because I'm an engineer doesn't mean I know everything about every engineering discipline.

            Dale_Rosema
            Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
            23-Emerald III
            December 4, 2012

            My engineering boss used to have a saying posted by his cubicle.

            1. You can have it fast.

            2. You can have it cheap.

            3. You can have it right.

            But, you can only chose two out of the three.

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              jsarkar1-Visitor
              1-Visitor
              December 5, 2012

              you have to complete the design by today

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