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For Sale: One ring to rule them all

Danny — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:12:27 +0000

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 ring is given to the engineer as part of “The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer” which was written by Rudyard Kipling. It is a reminder of the iterative nature of the engineering profession and of the engineer’s obligation to his peers and to society.

By auctioning off an Iron Ring, curlerjim is showing utmost disrespect for it and for what it represents. According to Wikipedia, “[p]rotocol dictates that the rings should be returned by retired engineers or by the families of deceased engineers.”

If you don’t want it, just send it back curlerjim. There are many of us who are working hard to earn one.

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Wired.com telling us what we already know

Danny — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:03:38 +0000

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 rarely encouraging
Awful textbooks

These are the TOP 5. The list, much like an infinite sum, goes on, and on, and on, and…

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Skywalker arm complete, lightsaber still in development

Danny — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:52:47 +0000

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.

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Engineering Student Survival Guide

Danny — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:43:57 +0000

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 Guide and anyone who has gone through school as an engineering student knows we’re not far off).

The great part of it is, Google has is as a Google book for your online perusal. I’m not sure if it’s a full copy of it but still. From what I’ve seen so far, it’s pretty good so go ahead and give it a looksee for yourself (click “Preview this book” at the top to read it).