TAN #144 Bring your sexTANt and steer by the stars. (Page 45)

no engineers are not scientists they are engineers.

Engineers know how things work, Scientists know why.

eta: This is not to say they do not have a science background.

Engineers just figure out what practical uses the discoveries of the scientists have

And I think that Cord is the most qualified around these parts to tell you how they work... I know Jim and I are both civil, I don't know of any mechanical engs that frequent TAN...

That one went a little over your head then did it?

Most of what you say goes over my head, Kate! Especially when you talk all technical like "choo choo trains".

That is OK, I have many other uses for you anyway.

So a man lays new soil over his entire farmland...

The plot thickens.

Engineers are not research scientists (though some are).

I'd say some categories of engineer are scientists. EE nowadays is pretty much computer science, so I'd give it that, software, and chemical, biochemical, and genetic engineers ... mech, civil, aero, ag, hardware, maybe/maybe not. Whatever the hell a "development" or "sustainability" engineer is (as in third-world development), no.

BWAH HA HAHAA that is terribly punny.

Are you a Civil Eng?

I'm in school becoming an Electrical Eng as we speak.

The word of the day is legs.

Go spread the word.

Yup, structural eng right here. Currently working in highway construction, with a 2 year stint in structural glass design before this position. Nothing but school and summer jobs before that

Yes, and then? I'm waiting.

it's all underlying in the message. legs, and spread. come on even I got it!

Alright, ladies and gents. Time to go do a site inspection, followed by a long weekend for me. I guess I'll talk to you all on Tuesday! Happy Canada Day to all us Canadians (yea, even you, Monica), and Happy Independence Day to the Americans (yea, I'll include Tony in that, too). 

Have a good couple, everyone!

Oh, I think Yanti got it, though I don't know if she got it enough for her liking

On that score I might give you materials engineers and yes I would say some engineers are doing scientific research but then they are sceintists the others not so much.  Most of those engineers do not do the basic research, they figure out how to scale up.  Many that I have seen do not have any great depth of field in any given science.  Computer science isn't a science per se either it is more of a technical specialty like engineering just cause they like to call it sceince doesn't mean it is.  I have yet to see a computer scientist have to prove anything.

Again I say Science is the investigation of why things work as they do Engineering is the practical application of how things work and how they work together.  They each require different types of thought processes.

Then again this is a lot like the philisophical question: How do you define a chair?

Guten Morgen y'all. So Engineers aren't scientists? My degree is in accounting, so I don't need to get involved in that one, but I have to agree with the perspective of metric being better than imperial. Of course Orwell's character in 1984 had a good argument against metric: a pint being better than a half-liter and a liter being too much to drink all at once.

Errr, Ms. Yanti, what's this about Alka Seltzer in place of baking soda? Aren't they flavored or something?

Cause Nerdy is Hot! I love a guy with a well functioning brain, who knows how to use it!!!

You don't like having guys talk nerdy to you? 

Ok, t-shirt-based jokes aren't the most charming, sorry. Perhaps we feel it projects a more intelligent and mature image for TAN? Seems counter-productive, no?

GMTA I was thinking of that very thing, but also the whole "if knee joints bent backward what would chairs look like" ... uh ... this is kind of scary. You go have fun now ...

Ummmmmm I have that shirt!

But Cheri, you are a pee nerd, and that makes you doubly hot!!!