Dan’s Landing

In what many have deemed “the most douchebaggiest move of all time,” eBay user curlerjim is auctioning off an Engineering Iron Ring (PDF here in case the auction is not online anymore).

The Iron Ring is worn by many Canadian engineers and “is a symbol of both pride and humility for the engineering profession.” The [...]

Wired.com has a list of Top 5 Reasons it SUCKS to be an Engineering Student:

Every assignment feels the same
Other disciplines have inflated grades

“Brilliant engineering students may earn surprisingly low grades while slackers in other departments score straight As for writing book reports and throwing together papers about their favorite zombie films.”

Dearth of quality counseling
Professors are [...]

Check you this video from the IEEE on Dean Karmen’s Artificial arm.

Light weight, modular, extremely mobile. The arm contains 12 microprocessors and can be controled by nerves, muscles or footpedals. Absolutely amazing. This is why I got into engineering.

I was looking through the ERTW – Engineers Rule The World Facebook group and came across this picture:The caption below it mentions an Engineering Survival Guide so of course I decided to Google it. To my surprise there is such a book (I don’t know why I’m surprised, after all there is a Zombie Survival [...]