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View Poll Results: Are you an engineer?
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I am an engineer
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I am not an engineer
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I am not an engineer but, always wanted to be one
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I think engineers are hot
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Poll:How many of us are Engineers?
03-03-2012, 08:39 PM
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Poll:How many of us are Engineers?
There seems to be a preponderance of engineers on E-R.org. So, let's take a poll and see.
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03-03-2012, 08:53 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Oh - you caught me!
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03-03-2012, 09:00 PM
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Because the poll allows multiple choices, I selected two. You know which ones! Heh heh heh...
PS. My education was in engineering, but my latest job offer came with a title of "scientist" because my work is more analytical than what most engineers do.
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03-03-2012, 09:00 PM
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Location: Oahu
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We only get one vote per person, not per certification-- right?
I understand it's just an opinion poll... we already know engineers are hot, but we accept that some people may not realize it yet.
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03-03-2012, 09:03 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Originally Posted by Nords
... we already know engineers are hot...
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Especially nuclear engineers, with their nuclear piles and all...
PS
I'm an engineer and I married an engineer.
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03-03-2012, 09:04 PM
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... glow in the dark!
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03-03-2012, 09:10 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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I resemble that poll - guilty as charged.
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03-03-2012, 09:10 PM
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I have a degree in chemical engineering but never actually worked as an engineer.
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03-03-2012, 09:13 PM
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I am confused and not sure how to vote.
I have an engineering degree but after only 5 years working as engineer, I got a lobotomy and moved into marketing.
To make even it more complicated I am retired 
I am sorry the number of hot engineers I've met over the years can be counted on fingers and toes.
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03-03-2012, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by FIREd
I have a degree in chemical engineering but never actually worked as an engineer.
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Ditto, but in electrical engineering.
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03-03-2012, 09:17 PM
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W2R I thought you worked as scientist? I am pretty sure that is close enough to engineering to count.
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03-03-2012, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by clifp
W2R I thought you worked as scientist? I am pretty sure that is close enough to engineering to count.
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Yes, and much of my work did involve signal processing, fluid dynamics, modeling, and such. I never had the title of Engineer, though.
I voted that I am an engineer anyway. To me, being an engineer (or maybe just being an Aggie engineer) means a way of thinking and approaching a problem.
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03-03-2012, 09:32 PM
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Cool, W2R! An Aggie double-E!
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03-03-2012, 09:32 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Guilty as charged.
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03-03-2012, 10:06 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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I am not an engineer but my dad was an engineer and both of my brothers are engineers. I have always considered myself lucky to not share the family affliction.
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03-03-2012, 10:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
I'm an engineer and I married an engineer.
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Same here!
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03-03-2012, 10:14 PM
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W2R is almost an Aggie engineer? Shocking! I'm at UT EE grad myself.
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03-03-2012, 10:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
W2R is almost an Aggie engineer? Shocking! I'm at UT EE grad myself.
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FIFY My sympathies!
Edited to add: Thanks for seeing the error of your ways and editing your post, after I FIFY.  You're welcome. Ah, Ags vs UT, once again.
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03-03-2012, 11:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by clifp
I am sorry the number of hot engineers I've met over the years can be counted on fingers and toes.
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Of course nerds think of themselves as "cool" (is it the same thing as "hot", like the OP says it?).
When I was in school, somehow there were very few girls those years. In one class, there was this cute girl, and as I always sat at the rear of the class, I spent more time watching her than the prof! Yes, she was hot!
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03-04-2012, 12:42 AM
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I am not an engineer and never wanted to be one.
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