Engineers

Theo Bekkers wrote:

Subterranean Hydraulic Engineer?

I prefer just to call him a poo engineer. My nephew, on the other hand, calls him a nurse. Much the same thing I guess. Both deal with large volumes of [censored].

LotteBum *memories from my entire semester of nursing at uni and two whole days of prac in a nursing home*

On 2005-06-22, SteveA (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Back in my engineering student days, we had a multiple choice mid
semester test. Somehow one of my dodgy student acquaintances obtained
a copy of the question paper before the test. He worked out the
answers. As there was a choice of 4 answers for each question, he
turned the string of 30 answers into a 30 digit base 4 number then
converted that into a decimal number and memorised the single decimal
number. He then went into the exam and re-converted to get the
answers.

And if he got a mental block, and swapped two digits around, he woulda
been screwed. HAW HAW!one1

You're allowed calculators in, aren't you? Just store the number in
the memory. If it requires too many digits, use the multiple memories
available.

--
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When I'M trying to get somebody fired, I always walk a mile in their
shoes first. That way, when I get them fired and they get all angry
with me, I'm a mile away, and I'VE GOT THEIR SHOES! HAW HAW!
--Beable van Polasm, alt.religion.kibology

TimC said:

On 2005-06-22, SteveA (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Back in my engineering student days, we had a multiple choice mid
semester test. Somehow one of my dodgy student acquaintances obtained
a copy of the question paper before the test. He worked out the
answers. As there was a choice of 4 answers for each question, he
turned the string of 30 answers into a 30 digit base 4 number then
converted that into a decimal number and memorised the single decimal
number. He then went into the exam and re-converted to get the
answers.

And if he got a mental block, and swapped two digits around, he woulda
been screwed. HAW HAW!one1

You're allowed calculators in, aren't you? Just store the number in
the memory. If it requires too many digits, use the multiple memories
available.

They make you clear the memories on the way into exams. Not that the
"old dearies" they use as exam supervisors would know if that
"new-fangled" calculator was cleared. I freaked out about deleting
tetris of my calculator; I didn't have the cable link to my computer so
I couldn't get it again without getting one of the guys to IR transfer
it for me. So I wrote a program on my calculator, that displayed "Really
Reset All?" when I pressed a particular combination, and displayed
"Cleared" once I hit okay... all for Tetris... remember good old
Tetris...

Tam

Tamyka Bell said:

They make you clear the memories on the way into exams. Not that the
"old dearies" they use as exam supervisors would know if that
"new-fangled" calculator was cleared. I freaked out about deleting
tetris of my calculator; I didn't have the cable link to my computer so
I couldn't get it again without getting one of the guys to IR transfer
it for me. So I wrote a program on my calculator, that displayed "Really
Reset All?" when I pressed a particular combination, and displayed
"Cleared" once I hit okay... all for Tetris... remember good old
Tetris...

Tam

Ya gotta love the "old dearies".. I sat an exam with some mining engineers. The lecturer had told us that a certain part of the course would not be examinable. Of course it appeared on the exam paper. One of the miners put up his hand during question time before the exam started. When the kindly old lady asked him what his query was, he replied "What the f##k is question 2 doing on the %^&^$ exam. That #$&#& of a lecturer told us it wouldn't be ^@#$^@#$ examinable!!". Poor old lady almost feinted.

SteveA

SteveA said:

Poor old lady almost feinted.

She almost faked an attack with a sword? *confused* How do you do that?

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Tam said:

all for Tetris... remember good old Tetris...

Awesome! I nearly got chucked out of a 2nd year math lecture for playing tetris on my hp48. A couple of the guys in my class modified their calculators to increase the IR range so they could transfer stuff to one another in exams using IR. Dunno if they ever did tho.

Cheers,

Suzy (Who's a telecoms engineer - not an over (or is that under?) paid electrician)

Tamyka Bell said:

Stuart Lamble said:

LotteBum said:

Hmm, wouldn't that have to be an environmental engineer?

Environmental engineering is a sub-field within civil engineering --
much as telecommunications engineering is a sub-field within electrical
engineering.

Oooh I should warn my Dad... he's a civil engineer... working in
telecommunications...

Tam *picturing sewers running through her phone line... entitled
"dialup"*

Today was day three of a Siemens PLC (Programmable Logic
Controller)course. Brain still hurts! One more day to go.

Marty

"SteveA" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Gags said:

Quoted message said:

Hey....do I get bonus points???? I fit both categories.

Of course, being an electrical engineer I am fully aware that there are
only
10 types of people in this world.......those that understand binary and
those that don't.

Gags (also aware of the fact that 42 is 9 x 6 in base 13!!!)

Back in my engineering student days, we had a multiple choice mid
semester test. Somehow one of my dodgy student acquaintances obtained
a copy of the question paper before the test. He worked out the
answers. As there was a choice of 4 answers for each question, he
turned the string of 30 answers into a 30 digit base 4 number then
converted that into a decimal number and memorised the single decimal
number. He then went into the exam and re-converted to get the
answers.

This was at a Uni at which someone on this forum tutors engineers!

SteveA
--
SteveA

That's pure genius........did he get 100% or did he purposely stuff one up
to make it a bit credible??

Many years ago I was on a course for work and at the end of one of the
topics, there was a 10 question multi guess exam and it was on a morning
after a few of us had a big night on the turps so I was feeling like [censored].

For some reason there was 5 min reading time (weren't allowed to write
anything) and then 20 min for the questions. The subject was pretty easy
and so during the reading time, I was working out the answers and stringing
them together in my head one at a time.......ie A, AD, ADC, ADCB,
ADCBC,........etc so that by the end of the reading, I had a series of 10
letters in my head that I was repeating over and over. After "OK, start
writing" was given, I wrote down all the answers, scrawled my name on the
top, and got up to leave (took about 10 seconds). The guy in charge (a
Sergeant) said "what are you doing Gags??" to which I replied "I'm finished"
and started to leave. He then proceeded to berate me for not taking the
exam seriously....blahblahblah......and his final comment as I left the room
was "you better not have gotten any of them wrong!!!" to which I replied "No
Sergeant.....they are all right". I then found a shady spot under a tree
and proceeded to have a snooze.

When my mates came out, they were pissing themselves laughing and reckoned
that they hadn't even finished writing their name when I was walking out.
Apparantly the SGT sat up the front marking my exam and muttering to himself
when he realised that I got all of them right.......heehhehehe.

Gags

Gags said:

When my mates came out, they were pissing themselves laughing and reckoned
that they hadn't even finished writing their name when I was walking out.
Apparantly the SGT sat up the front marking my exam and muttering to himself
when he realised that I got all of them right.......heehhehehe.

Gags

I had a subject on assembler language many years ago. I'd studied fairly
hard for it being a first year mature age student (couldn't afford to
fail) and thought the exam was going to require some fairly hard core
programming. Got into reading time to discover the exam was based on 20
questions awhere you had to fill in the missing command for set of code.
I had the 3 hr exam done in 10 mins (5 of those mins were me making
sure I hadn't misread what was required). Packed up all my stuff to the
amazement of everyone around me and then had to wait another 20 mins
because you weren't allowed to leave in the first half hour. Sigh, I
wish my MBA was that easy. Better get back to it, or should I watch
Spicks and Specks and then Black Books?

DaveB

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, it was written:

Quoted message said:

"SteveA" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Gags said:

>
Hey....do I get bonus points???? I fit both categories.

Of course, being an electrical engineer I am fully aware that there are
only
10 types of people in this world.......those that understand binary and
those that don't.

Gags (also aware of the fact that 42 is 9 x 6 in base 13!!!)

Back in my engineering student days, we had a multiple choice mid
semester test. Somehow one of my dodgy student acquaintances obtained
a copy of the question paper before the test. He worked out the
answers. As there was a choice of 4 answers for each question, he
turned the string of 30 answers into a 30 digit base 4 number then
converted that into a decimal number and memorised the single decimal
number. He then went into the exam and re-converted to get the
answers.

This was at a Uni at which someone on this forum tutors engineers!

SteveA
--
SteveA

That's pure genius........did he get 100% or did he purposely stuff one up
to make it a bit credible??

Many years ago I was on a course for work and at the end of one of the
topics, there was a 10 question multi guess exam and it was on a morning
after a few of us had a big night on the turps so I was feeling like [censored].

For some reason there was 5 min reading time (weren't allowed to write
anything) and then 20 min for the questions. The subject was pretty easy
and so during the reading time, I was working out the answers and stringing
them together in my head one at a time.......ie A, AD, ADC, ADCB,
ADCBC,........etc so that by the end of the reading, I had a series of 10
letters in my head that I was repeating over and over. After "OK, start
writing" was given, I wrote down all the answers, scrawled my name on the
top, and got up to leave (took about 10 seconds). The guy in charge (a
Sergeant) said "what are you doing Gags??" to which I replied "I'm finished"
and started to leave. He then proceeded to berate me for not taking the
exam seriously....blahblahblah......and his final comment as I left the room
was "you better not have gotten any of them wrong!!!" to which I replied "No
Sergeant.....they are all right". I then found a shady spot under a tree
and proceeded to have a snooze.

When my mates came out, they were pissing themselves laughing and reckoned
that they hadn't even finished writing their name when I was walking out.
Apparantly the SGT sat up the front marking my exam and muttering to himself
when he realised that I got all of them right.......heehhehehe.

Gags

Hehehe sounds like me on my last course!

Worst exam at uni though was one where I finished 45 minutes into a 2 hr
exam (perfect, because you weren't allowed to leave for the first 40 mins
anyway) and everyone else was still working... and at 1h 30 still no one
else had left the room, and I began to panic that I had missed a page...
nah!

Tam *glad she's not sitting exams*

DaveB said:

Gags said:

When my mates came out, they were pissing themselves laughing and reckoned
that they hadn't even finished writing their name when I was walking out.
Apparantly the SGT sat up the front marking my exam and muttering to
himself
when he realised that I got all of them right.......heehhehehe.

Gags

I had a subject on assembler language many years ago. I'd studied fairly hard
for it being a first year mature age student (couldn't afford to fail) and
thought the exam was going to require some fairly hard core programming. Got
into reading time to discover the exam was based on 20 questions awhere you
had to fill in the missing command for set of code. I had the 3 hr exam done
in 10 mins (5 of those mins were me making sure I hadn't misread what was
required). Packed up all my stuff to the amazement of everyone around me and
then had to wait another 20 mins because you weren't allowed to leave in the
first half hour. Sigh, I wish my MBA was that easy. Better get back to it, or
should I watch Spicks and Specks and then Black Books?

DaveB

We should all be so confident. I had a 24 hr take home exam on 4th year
laser physics; class of 4 students. We sat together for the first few
hours to confirm that we fully understood all the questions. We spent most
of those three hours confirming Ohm's Law.

Tam

DaveB <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Gags said:

When my mates came out, they were pissing themselves laughing and
reckoned that they hadn't even finished writing their name when I was
walking out. Apparantly the SGT sat up the front marking my exam and
muttering to himself when he realised that I got all of them
right.......heehhehehe.

Gags

I had a subject on assembler language many years ago. I'd studied
fairly hard for it being a first year mature age student (couldn't
afford to fail) and thought the exam was going to require some fairly
hard core programming. Got into reading time to discover the exam was
based on 20 questions awhere you had to fill in the missing command
for set of code.
I had the 3 hr exam done in 10 mins (5 of those mins were me making
sure I hadn't misread what was required). Packed up all my stuff to
the amazement of everyone around me and then had to wait another 20
mins because you weren't allowed to leave in the first half hour.
Sigh, I wish my MBA was that easy. Better get back to it, or should I
watch Spicks and Specks and then Black Books?

DaveB

Watch Spicks and Specks and then Black Books. The MBA will still be
their when you come back for f*sck sake. Do any of these idiots realise
that I have to earn a living to pay for their f*scking course. 10
contact hours/week my rounded behind.

Should I hang around and get the DBA just to be different?

Cheers

BrettM

In article <[email hidden]>, DaveB

Quoted message said:

or should I watch
Spicks and Specks and then Black Books?

Watching black books is always correct. Bill Bailey is a trog/god of
our time 🙂

"DaveB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Sigh, I
wish my MBA was that easy. Better get back to it, or should I watch
Spicks and Specks and then Black Books?

DaveB

I am currently studying a Masters of Management Studies - Project Management
and I am doing 2 subjects. I have fallen behind a fair bit due to work
commitments and now I have to submit work that counts for 55% in one subject
and 60% in the other by Wednesday next week.......this is why I am posting
this at 0120h as one of my assignments prints.

Well it's off to bed for me cos the alarm goes off at 0515h to get up and
ride to work (best part of my day).

Ride On,

Gags (It's for my benefit, It's for my benefit, It's for my benefit.....)

Gags said:

"DaveB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Sigh, I
wish my MBA was that easy. Better get back to it, or should I watch
Spicks and Specks and then Black Books?

DaveB

I am currently studying a Masters of Management Studies - Project Management
and I am doing 2 subjects. I have fallen behind a fair bit due to work
commitments and now I have to submit work that counts for 55% in one subject
and 60% in the other by Wednesday next week.......this is why I am posting
this at 0120h as one of my assignments prints.

Well it's off to bed for me cos the alarm goes off at 0515h to get up and
ride to work (best part of my day).

Ride On,

Gags (It's for my benefit, It's for my benefit, It's for my benefit.....)

I once made the mistake of doing 3 subjects (plus working full time of
course). Never again!

DaveB

Tamyka Bell <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Worst exam at uni though was one where I finished 45 minutes into a 2
hr exam (perfect, because you weren't allowed to leave for the first
40 mins anyway) and everyone else was still working... and at 1h 30
still no one else had left the room, and I began to panic that I had
missed a page... nah!

I used to do that all the time at school, not so much at uni, but certainly
do it now for all these damned IT related exams (the boss like the letters
after our names). My record so far is 40 or so questions in 10 minutes. I
was smugly told "Never mind, if it was too hard you can try again after
studying a bit more." Then she picked up the printout of the results and
went, "Oh, 87%" That wiped the smug look off her face 😉

Graeme

Graeme said:

Tamyka Bell <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Worst exam at uni though was one where I finished 45 minutes into a 2
hr exam (perfect, because you weren't allowed to leave for the first
40 mins anyway) and everyone else was still working... and at 1h 30
still no one else had left the room, and I began to panic that I had
missed a page... nah!

I used to do that all the time at school, not so much at uni, but certainly
do it now for all these damned IT related exams (the boss like the letters
after our names). My record so far is 40 or so questions in 10 minutes. I
was smugly told "Never mind, if it was too hard you can try again after
studying a bit more." Then she picked up the printout of the results and
went, "Oh, 87%" That wiped the smug look off her face 😉

Graeme

When we were in Canberra, a mate and I enrolled for fun at TAFE to do a cooking diploma (equivalent to the TAFE part of a chef's apprenticeship). We were both single and liked to cook and thought we should learn properly. We had to pass practical exams and written theory exams. Early in the course, we introduced a 'wine fund' for the whole class to ensure that no-one had to cook in class while in a state of dehydration.

Anyway, we sat the first 1 hour exam. Opened the wine fund as usual (should always do exams while sipping red wine). We both finished in 15 minutes. Handed in the exams and then had a few more red wines. Mark 100%. Both of us. They made us sit apart for the next exam. 15 minutes, 100% for both of us again.

That was a few years ago. The mate and I live on opposite sides of the country now but we get together every few years. And cook something serious. And have a few beers/wines. But no more cooking theory exams.

SteveA

DaveB said:

I had the 3 hr exam done in 10 mins (5 of those mins were me making
sure I hadn't misread what was required). Packed up all my stuff to the
amazement of everyone around me and then had to wait another 20 mins
because you weren't allowed to leave in the first half hour.

My first year physics and digital electronics exams were like that. A few of us (all nerdy mature age types) used to race one another to see who could knock over the exam first. The debriefing sessions at the uni bar were always lots of fun.

Geez, sometimes I even miss being an undergrad 🙂 But then I think of third year, where it all got hard all of a sudden, and feel glad that I'm out the other end of the sausage factory 🙂

Cheers,

Suzy

You blokes in the trade may be interested to know that The Times (London) newspaper recently published an obituary for Jack Kilby
November 8, 1923 - June 20, 2005
US physicist whose invention of the microchip won the Nobel Prize - and
changed our world

I was fascinated by the following paragraph

<He received little financial reward for his inventions. Nor did he benefit
much from them. He did not have a digital watch, a microwave oven or a
pocket calculator, continuing to use a slide rule. For all his
achievements, he was an extraordinarily modest man who was always willing
to give advice and encouragement to young people.>

Don't suppose any of you young guns have ever seen, let alone used a slip stick!

Mike

coppershark said:

You blokes in the trade may be interested to know that The Times (London) newspaper recently published an obituary for Jack Kilby
November 8, 1923 - June 20, 2005
US physicist whose invention of the microchip won the Nobel Prize - and
changed our world

I was fascinated by the following paragraph

<He received little financial reward for his inventions. Nor did he benefit
much from them. He did not have a digital watch, a microwave oven or a
pocket calculator, continuing to use a slide rule. For all his
achievements, he was an extraordinarily modest man who was always willing
to give advice and encouragement to young people.>

Don't suppose any of you young guns have ever seen, let alone used a slip stick!

Mike

I don't claim to be a young gun (neither young nor gun 🙄 ) but I have kept my old slide rule. My kids thought it was really weird when I showed it to them. Also have a HP-21 calculator which the girls thought may have been the sort of calculator used by dinosaurs.

SteveA