physics majors when they're asked to apply their knowledge (they've never been outside of the lab)
If you ask a scientist what pi is, they will tell you it equals 3.14159. If you ask a mathematician, they will tell you pi equals the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. If you ask an engineer, they will say “about 3, but let's round it up to 5 to be safe.”
I'd replace scientist to something more precise like physicist because usually people consider mathematicians as scientists even if it depends on definitions.
As someone with a degree in physics who ended up in an engineering role, I approve of this meme.
As an engineer, I don't believe in any of that mind reading mumbo jumbo.
Astronomy is one of the many tools of the devil.
Fr, what can you do with a physics degree except teach people physics
What's the first indicator a scientist tried to build their own experiment using the soldering station ?
The smell of burnt fingers.
What's the scientist waiting for sitting in front of their own experiment ?
Waiting for the infinite loop they coded to finish after they claimed they didn't need the engineer's help to write the code in their experiment.
How many scientists do you need to change a light bulb ?
Theoretically just one, but it can take several until one of them can call an engineer and admit they only know how to change light bulbs theoretically.
What does a scientist call an electrolytic capacitor ?
Acid distribution subsystem.
Is the date a perfect sphere in a vacuum with no friction?
Aww, he doesn't understand physics and has a small dick? :(
Her: "No I meant I'm a software engineer."
Him: "Oh. I also hate myself and want to die."
"Can I lick the science?"
"Nothing else has made the code work so ya might as well!"
Ask a
physicianphysicist to build a bridge, it collapse but he knows exactly how and why it collapsed.Ask an engineer to do it, it holds but he has no idea how it's holding together.
I think the word you're looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).
Engineering is just physics with real numbers.
You start with a real number, then apply several made-up safety factors.
@user1234 @fossilesque irl physics
Isn't physics a pretty integral part of engineering?
No, integrals are mathematics
Depends on the specific engineering branch. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes nothing at all. But all engineering branches share one thing with physics: math.
Engineering is just the economical application of applied physics, without Physicists Engineers work off faulty knowledge, without Engineers nothing gets designed.
The level of understanding an Engineer needs, however, is purely within the practical and economical, while Physicists understandably have more in-depth knowledge.
Who said she's a mechanical engineer?
She probably drives a train
IIRC they all learn some physics at engineering school. Even the software engineers.
In my engineering school, the major difference between software engineers and real engineers is that software engineers don't study physics.
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I did chemical engineering because it only required two physics courses.
And because I like chemistry.
Engineering is more like accounting, but for objects instead of money. Tables, rule books, and lobbyists.
And writing reports, calculations and such...even manuals if there is time
Hey we understand plenty! Well the parts we have to to make the thing not go boom anyways....
Wait, things aren't supposed to go boom ?
I'm Torgue and I'm here to ask you one question and one question only: Explosions?
Where's the kaboom? There should have been an earth-shattering kaboom!
Excellent, excellent. One thought, though. Maybe it should be boom, boom, and then kaboom. Sort of a hoo-ah grand finale!
I suck at math too!
Don’t we all??
I'm sure you didn't mean it, but given the dearth of women in engineering, there's an interpretation of this meme that's kinda sexist.
