Top 10 reasons that you know you’re an engineer
Bosch Rexroth has started a hilarious bit on their website called Creative Diversions. This is one part.
"To celebrate the world of engineering, we
asked Rexroth associates and customers to send us humorous endings to the
sentence, “You know you’re an engineer if…”. Some of the responses were
completely original and some came from other websites. Overall, we received
many responses. From those, we collected the top 10. "
compiled by Bosch Rexroth, www.boschrexroth-us.com
You know you’re an engineer if…
- In college you thought Spring Break was a type of metal fatigue
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week episodes, lasting 5-8 minutes, will show cutting-edge technology in action
and look behind the scenes as today’s engineers shape tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
Recent episodes include interviews with top automotive and electronics
engineers at the North American International Auto Show
and the Consumer Electronics Show. Check
it out at EngineeringTV.com.
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–by the staff
Tips & Tricks: Combining Techniques To Create Embossed Letters On A Rim
When using CAD, the difficult modeling situations are as varied as the geometry itself. There’s no engineer who’s seen it all. You are much better served by the engineer who’s good at coming up with techniques that are a combination of others’. For example, one company we worked with wanted to create embossed letters distributed around a conical rim. Most CAD packages do not have an “embossed letters distributed around a conical rim” command. The method that was used was the combination of a few powerful techniques.