October 2019 15k SPAM Thread

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

SPAMopolitan.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

SPAMosa.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

CASIO. Period.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

CASIO. Period.

I like the Casio for quickly converting Cartesian to polar for power calcs, and the matrix solver is handy. But that was before when I was doing power stuff. Now I'm on 100% mechanical projects so it's all just addition and multiplication.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Holy crap I found my old diagnostic when I bombed the mechanical PE the first time April 2016. For some reason I took machine design & materials (NOT my area of expertise). 30/80. What a dummy.

 

[Tiger15]

lol yeah. You really don't want to mess up in this discipline. That's partly why the safety factors are so large.

But sometimes risk provokes the opposite reaction. I've met so many aerospace engineers who are total cowboys. "40% chance or catastrophic failure every time we launch? Meh whatever. It's not like we own the launch complex.We'll just buy three at twice the price. One of them will work. "

Hopefully they work in UNMANNED aerospace! I worked on human space flight for a while; that attitude would not fly (pun intended).

 

[MadamPirate PE]

Adios Motherspammer.

 

[MadamPirate PE]

I have a SPAM too. Ho Ho Ho

 

[Will.I.Am PE]

But sometimes risk provokes the opposite reaction. I've met so many aerospace engineers who are total cowboys. "40% chance or catastrophic failure every time we launch? Meh whatever. It's not like we own the launch complex.We'll just buy three at twice the price. One of them will work. "

Reminds me of the old pile driving formulas for deep foundations. "Eh, we'll spitball it with dynamics, then multiple by 6. That should cover it."

 

[Tiger15]

You know, when I was a kid, adults would tell me that I was really smart, and I didn't necessarily believe them. At least I didn't until I got to middle school. Then I looked around at all the other hooligans in my age group, and realized that I was well above average... 

I just can't imagine signing up for an 8-hour exam that costs $350 (plus State board fees) and comes with the gravity that the PE does; and going in with Literally. No. Idea. how the exam is scored. 

I'm baffled, again.  :blink2:

I took the exam in Oct '18. Researched everything (I hadn't found EB at that time). Talked to eveyrone I know who took it. Took a prep course. (And passed  )

My friend registered for the April '19. Did zero preparation and zero research. Decided he wasn't ready and switched to the Oct '19 exam (no idea if he was able to change his registration or if he just no-showed and re-registered. For the Oct '19 exam he did zero preparation and did zero research. The week of the exam he called me up and asked if he could borrow my reference binders. I let him borrow them. He showed up with no watch, assuming there would be a clock. He called me at lunch and said (and I quote), "I finally understand this exam. It's all about time management. You have to know the stuff; you don't have time to look it up." No shit! That's what I told you. He finished about half the problems on both the morning and afternoon sessions, and just put B for everything else.

It's fine. I don't mean to shit on him; he does have A LOT on his plate. But also, it's hard for me to understand doing something this big without researching. 

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Hopefully they work in UNMANNED aerospace! I worked on human space flight for a while; that attitude would not fly (pun intended).

It was mostly the unmanned side of things. The man-rating process is too tight for the nonsense I mentioned above; ditto getting anything nuke rated for launch. But I've definitely encountered some STMD, and HEOMD folks doing R&D with a  similar attitutde.  They're the types who are super-certain that they can get latest WMD "invention" man-rated despite the rules - they'll just call their senator and get the rules changed.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Hopefully they work in UNMANNED aerospace! I worked on human space flight for a while; that attitude would not fly (pun intended).

Even the manned folks tend to forget that gravity always works and that stuff will eventually hit the ground and effect the local population.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Adios Motherspammer.

yippe kay yay motherspammer

 

[Will.I.Am PE]

Well, we passed 3700 a while back.

:thumbs:   :th_rockon:

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Well, we passed 3700 a while back.

:thumbs:   :th_rockon:

We're on pace for a Dec 4 completion date. -assumes no work on weekends, holidays, and the day before/after thanksgiving.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

Ormahgorsh

 

[Will.I.Am PE]

We're on pace for a Dec 4 completion date. -assumes no work on weekends, holidays, and the day before/after thanksgiving.

It would be really nice if the release date fell on my wife's birthday. The 2-for-1 celebration would be fantastic... seems doubtful, though.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

It would be really nice if the release date fell on my wife's birthday. The 2-for-1 celebration would be fantastic... seems doubtful, though.

I'm super hoping you pass, but if you do indeed pass I predict she'll request that you STFU about the dang exam! :rotflmao:

 

[civilrobot PE etc etc]

book titles with Spam replacing one word

A Catcher in the Spam

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. SPAM.