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Yup i'm bored and i'm making a boring thread. I'm currently doing my work experience at a structural engineering sub company (of a bigger company) so I have a question to ask you.

Do you know anyone who is a structural engineer?

Feel free not to comment on how crap the poll or thread is?

Well, I'm a naval architect. Not sure if that counts as a structural engineer, but I guess it partially does.

Well, I'm a naval architect. Not sure if that counts as a structural engineer, but I guess it partially does.

I'm guessing it does.

Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets.

No I don't know any, I met a few last year during Dynamics but they don't do the same classes as us now... so no.

Ooh not knowing any structural engineers and actually knowing some are neck and neck in the polls people! ... Yes i am very bored to be doing this.

Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets.

No I don't know any, I met a few last year during Dynamics but they don't do the same classes as us now... so no.

And the mechanical engineers build them inside of buildings built by structural engineers.

Structural Engineering is not boring.

I deal mostly with repairs and rehabs. It's like being a doctor, for buildings.

Structural Engineering is not boring.
Aye, that's civil engineering.

*ther-dum-tish*

I don't know any structural engineers and I myself am not one.

I feel this exhausts my potential contributions to this thread.

My postcount is 1408 and I'm making it 1409.

This post is exactly (within 0.01% tolerance) as useful as the one above.

Aye, that's civil engineering.

*ther-dum-tish*

Bah, you MEs spend your first years out of college designing plumbing for various things until you get your PE stamp. :p

I'm a civil that is going to focus on structural engineering... I just don't have a stamp yet, so I'm not a structural engineer. :D

Anyone in an engineering program thinking of mastering in it? I go to a good engineering university, but I've definitely been thinking about mastering in CE at a CalTech or wherever.

My postcount is 1408 and I'm making it 1409.

This post is exactly (within 0.01% tolerance) as useful as the one above.

Hey! My post was useful.

You could use it to...er...um...

...er...

*flees*

I go to an engineering uni, so of course I know some.

Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets.


As the brother of a Civil Engineer, son of a Civil Engineer and nephew of 2 other Civil Engineers - this post wins.

Luis Barragan was a civil engineer:

http://www.pritzkerprize.com/barragan/barraganpg.htm

http://www.vitruvius.com.br/arquitextos/arq000/esp026e.asp

I know several civil engineers at college, one of whom is going to be one of my roomates this fall.

I'm going to school for structural engineering now.

Its fun. Though I'm scared of having to do multistory analysis which I will probably be starting next year. I wonder if its like moment distribution for indeterminate structures. I do love me some moment diagrams.

I'm going to school for structural engineering now.

Its fun. Though I'm scared of having to do multistory analysis which I will probably be starting next year. I wonder if its like moment distribution for indeterminate structures. I do love me some moment diagrams.

Mmm... shear & moment diagrams.

I get to try my hand in dynamics next quarter. I wonder how I'll do.

Feel free not to comment on how crap the poll or thread is?

If your currently working on an engineering project, and want some help, this thread makes perfect sense.

Mmm... shear & moment diagrams.

I get to try my hand in dynamics next quarter. I wonder how I'll do.

Eh, I didn't like dynamics much- too much stuff was moving around :P

I still got an A but I can't say I was very motivated to actually master any of it. Its basically like physics, just slightly more complex.

(iirc dynamics was mostly: moment of inertia/some rotational stuff, torque and the like, probably friction, just remember F=ma and you'll be OK, the only hard part was doing it in 3-d, so vectors are a must)

I'm an engineer of the heart.

Not really, I just think that's fun to say. It could make a good pick-up line, depending on the circumstances.

Well, I am married to an architect and I am a systems engineer (or architect if you prefer) so I guess we know someone who is a structural engineer - but whoever it is is so boring that we have forgotten who it is for the moment. If for any unpremeditated reason we should discover we will do our best ot forget again, but failing this I will inform this thread (iff it is still on the first page and I am under 50 years of age)

Eh, I didn't like dynamics much- too much stuff was moving around :P

I still got an A but I can't say I was very motivated to actually master any of it. Its basically like physics, just slightly more complex.

(iirc dynamics was mostly: moment of inertia/some rotational stuff, torque and the like, probably friction, just remember F=ma and you'll be OK, the only hard part was doing it in 3-d, so vectors are a must)

My ME profs. have all been hardasses so far. One class I had, my grade on the midterm was 26/40 and 2nd highest and half the class got a 0/40. There were like 3 out of 30 that passed. The next one, I beat the average of each midterm by at least 30 pts. each time (42, 44) and I still got a C+. :p

All this means is that, when I pass, there will be less competition. :D

My first degree was in architecture and I had one instructo who was a structural engineer.

No, but I will be a nuclear engineer.

I am fascinated by several of the processes and principals of engineering, as my father is an engineer and his father before him. I am, however, not similarly motivated to apply myself to the study of engineering and would rather be a writer or illustrator. Therefore I sate my mechanical interests by collecting Transformers.

My cousin's studying this at Purdue. I think when she started she wanted to build bridges, but now she wants to do something even more stultifyingly boring with it that I can't remember. Um, she seems to like it, though?

No, but I will be a nuclear engineer.

Silly, it's pronounced "nuculer." The "S" is silent. :D

My uncle works for Catepiller(fairly high up), he was an Engineer, I think.

Therefore I sate my mechanical interests by collecting Transformers.
Transformers would not work in the real world. A robot with everything needed to change between a a humanoid bot and a vehicle and everything to operate in both modes would be way to complicated and heavy and expensive to be of any practical use. To top it off they all look like skinned furbies. I fucking hate transformers.

Transformers would not work in the real world. A robot with everything needed to change between a a humanoid bot and a vehicle and everything to operate in both modes would be way to complicated and heavy and expensive to be of any practical use. To top it off they all look like skinned furbies. I fucking hate transformers.

I love how, in Transformers, the cars drive normally on the road but, when they switch to mech mode, they all of a sudden gain a few dozen tons of mass and begin to mangle the AC like they're running on sand. I mean, the most that I could see of something like this would be a little fracturing of the AC due to tensile loads introduced to the concrete due to the friction of the roadway allowing the mechs to run. Other than that, the concrete shouldn't fly up like that.