Ask a Boeing Engineer

[JDubDub]

I do a bunch of volunteer trail work with a Boeing engineer. Zero inter-personal skills and manages to piss off women on a regular basis. Not great for an org that relies on volunteer labor. He's absolutely convinced that he's right about every aspect of the work we do.

Was retired, but Boeing offered him a "stupid amount of money" to return after the latest issues. I've worked with a bunch of different engineers and he does at least seem to know his job.

 

[Certaindeaf]

View: https://youtu.be/l482T0yNkeo?feature=shared

 

[hongkong2]

In his defense, airplanes have a few onboard AC generators.

Inverters under the cheap seats, if you know, you know.

 

[Member 53867]

 

[Cavedweller]

I said it's very easy. In the morning an engineer gets dressed and puts on a pair of socks. Makes no difference if one's black and one's red. To him it's a pair of socks.

But the patterns match!

College teaches people who dont have any usable marketable skills how to do something to make a living. Thats about the extent of it. It doesn't make them masters of everything . Thats what dads are for.

FIFY
No money in that, either.

 

[arakboss]

Maybe satellites have door plugs too.

Boeing-made satellite breaks up in space

A Boeing-made satellite has exploded in space, dealing a fresh blow to the crisis-hit aerospace company.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Rkangel]

Are engineers even required to know math anymore? Two reports this morning on the news that math is now considered discriminatory and racist in multiple careers. Not sure I want to fly in a complex plane designed and assembled by someone who doesn't understand basic math. The doors might fall off mid flight...oh wait...

 

[wired]

Are engineers even required to know math anymore? Two reports this morning on the news that math is now considered discriminatory and racist in multiple careers. Not sure I want to fly in a complex plane designed and assembled by someone who doesn't understand basic math. The doors might fall off mid flight...oh wait...

Yes, engine engineers are required to learn math and way more of it than we need

 

[Spitpatch]

I have a similar problem in that my coworkers think I don't know anything because I'm much younger than they are, yet I'm in a higher position with higher responsibility and the proof of my knowledge and work quality is rolling all over the yard for everyone to see every day. It's very frustrating having people who provably know less than you tell you how to do your job when they can't do theirs.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

 

[nammac]

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Huh, another uncivil engineer, who'd a thunk…

 

[TTSX]

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

 

[P7M13]

An engineer, no matter what discipline, needs a high degree of common sense to be successful.
I've worked with many dozens who couldn't engineer their way out of a paper bag, and have had the distinct privilege to work with a few brilliant ones.
Sometimes I find it frustrating, working with engineers who hit the wall of the limit of their skills, yet never recognize the Dunning Krueger effect. The higher they sit in the food chain, the more difficult it can be to make progress.
The unwritten law, which seems to be disappearing among practitioners, is K.I.S.S.

 

[Member 24198]

An engineer, no matter what discipline, needs a high degree of common sense to be successful.
I've worked with many dozens who couldn't engineer their way out of a paper bag, and have had the distinct privilege to work with a few brilliant ones.
Sometimes I find it frustrating, working with engineers who hit the wall of the limit of their skills, yet never recognize the Dunning Krueger effect. The higher they sit in the food chain, the more difficult it can be to make progress.
The unwritten law, which seems to be disappearing among practitioners, is K.I.S.S.

Unfortunately, engineers seem to have the same level of common sense that you find elsewhere in other populations.

 

[wired]

Unfortunately, engineers seem to have the same level of common sense that you find elsewhere in other populations.

I know a lot of engineers. Only known a few dingbats.

 

[Member 24198]

I know a lot of engineers. Only known a few dingbats.

Not sure what field you're in, but engineers definitely follow the Belle curve. At least the ones with only a BS and a PE.

 

[Jim Horn]

BSEE here, though I took up Space in college...

 

[Spitpatch]

Another "attribute" held by some engineers, is an apparent absence of any capacity for self-introspection.

This I have only VERY recently discovered.

 

[AMT]

I am convinced that engineering students are taught throughout their schooling that they are God's and everyone else is stupid and below them.

Most keep that mentality through their entire lives and careers.

The good ones change their mindset and attitudes about 1/2 way through their lives and careers.

This explains why the "newbies" are usually pompous azzes, and the "old timers" are the ones you want to deal with.

 

[wired]

I am convinced that engineering students are taught throughout their schooling that they are God's and everyone else is stupid and below them.

Most keep that mentality through their entire lives and careers.

The good ones change their mindset and attitudes about 1/2 way through their lives and careers.

This explains why the "newbies" are usually pompous azzes, and the "old timers" are the ones you want to deal with.

They dont have a class like that.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

They dont have a class like that.

So you are saying they just filter them out in the application process?