I wish being an engineer didn't require so much math

by "HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
Published 03/03/2017 at 13:40

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Cause I got ideas and no math skills.

That is all

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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/03/2017 at 13:46, STARS: 0

I have a few. Can I be of any assistance?

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
03/03/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 0

What are you trying to do?

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 13:54, STARS: 0

I have electrical engineering ideas, but no skills. And mechanical engineering ideas...but...no skills. Turns out my brain is math incompatible, but it likes complicated technical ideas. thats all.

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/03/2017 at 13:55, STARS: 0

Yeah it would be nice, I’m a rigger and some guys do some math and know things, I go up in the lift and point lasers at stuff and just see how far away things are, plus use a laser on the ground to get my hang point location. Then I work out little mistakes with adjustments.

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 13:55, STARS: 0

Many things. right now im trying to take 13v nominal (12-14.5) and turn it into 16V @ 4-5 amps current regulated

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 13:56, STARS: 0

did you ever watch that show “worlds toughest fixes?” my dad and I loved that show.

"Toby F., Manager" (itsmefromhr)
03/03/2017 at 13:59, STARS: 0

I’m the same way. It helps in some ways that my dad is an engineer...

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/03/2017 at 14:00, STARS: 0

No, I pretty much download everything I watch so I have to know about something first. But I will look it up. I’ve had to relocate things in the air without putting them down on the ground, because the show was being built and there was no room on the ground anymore. I have used two lifts, because the first couldn’t be moved past the second to reach something, I stepped out of one and into the other, transferred the load. All a headache!

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:02, STARS: 1

my dad was an engineer and literally ALL my friends are. Thats what makes it hard I know enough to get the excitement about it...not enough to be useful.

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:02, STARS: 0

The show is hosted by a rigger and he’s actually pretty entertaining.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/03/2017 at 14:03, STARS: 0

I am a mathematics teacher and I refuse to accept that people cannot learn math. I used to work with a (hardcore Liberal) social studies teacher who would tell anyone, including all of his students, that he simply did not, could not, do math. I’d say, “Suppose I went around this school saying I simply could not, would not, do reading or writing or social justice?” Ethnic Studies . Humbug! Now, by “math,” I mean fractions and decimals and multiplying and dividing. Maybe a square root. Not integral calculus or linear algebra or complex analysis.

"Out, but with a W - has found the answer" (belg)
03/03/2017 at 14:03, STARS: 0

You can always become an accountant. That way you get to tell engineers what to do.

"CobraJoe" (cobrajoe)
03/03/2017 at 14:03, STARS: 2

I used to have ideas, then I became an engineer.

Seems like most of the “interesting” ideas I’ve come up with have either already been tried or have good reasons for not being tried.

I’m far less of an “inventor” now, but I’m far more confident that my stuff will work as intended... or will by the 3rd or 4th revision anyways.

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/03/2017 at 14:04, STARS: 0

Oh cool, yeah I will check it out. I recently worked at a Cirque de Soleil set up in SF and that was pretty interesting, they had some wild stuff.

"Tazio, Count Fouroff" (tazio0625)
03/03/2017 at 14:05, STARS: 0

Haha that is exactly why I’m in Medicine...wasn’t smart enough for all the math in Engineering

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:06, STARS: 0

its not that I don’t want to learn math. Im self diagnosed as dyscalculic ...fits me to a T. which, again, sucks because I want to know it. I’ve gotten better at math over the years, but the effort and time it would take for me to be proficient enough for engineering wasn’t going to work. I was actually an engineering major for a while before I figure that out.

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:07, STARS: 0

well I don’t have too many “marketable” ideas, but I do have one offs that would be useful to at least me.

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
03/03/2017 at 14:07, STARS: 4

The job title you desire is Product Manager.

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
03/03/2017 at 14:07, STARS: 0

A boost regulator should allow you to step up the voltage while stepping down the current. This means that to get 16v at 5A I would estimate you would probably be pulling at least 10A from your source (there will be losses due to heat). What are you powering which would require 16v with a regulated current?

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:09, STARS: 1

durr, worlds toughest fixes not jobs

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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:10, STARS: 0

yeah, that might not be a bad fit for me.

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/03/2017 at 14:12, STARS: 1

Those are some serious shackles!

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:13, STARS: 1

I want to design a battery box that can be recharged by any cars cig. lighter source. Ideally I would need a DC to DC charger not just constant current/voltage but I am also looking at the Goal Zero battery packs and their car charger is only 30 watts (Vin is Vout @1amp), even though the unit can take up to 29 volts (up to 120 watt). I have a high power cig lighter in my car so being able to put the full 120 watts in would solve problems for my power supply issues without being unsafe (fused 12 gauge straight from the battery). Bringing the charge time down from “barely keeping up” to “no problem with room to spare”

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/03/2017 at 14:24, STARS: 0

Interesting. Sorry for the rant, if it was an affront.

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 14:25, STARS: 1

nah, I feel the same way. I COULD power through and learn it, but at this point in my life I feel the effort would be too little too late.

"ateamfan42" (ateamfan42)
03/03/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 0

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My personal experience is that being an engineering student requires a ton of math, while being an engineer requires very little.

"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
03/03/2017 at 14:34, STARS: 0

Hence why I am going into business and marketing.

you still have to take stats :(

"punkgoose17" (punkgoose17)
03/03/2017 at 14:45, STARS: 0

I wished I used more maths in my engineering job.... It depends on the job.

"user314" (user314)
03/03/2017 at 14:49, STARS: 1

I have nothing to add, I just love a good clip of Krieger being Krieger.

"The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!)" (steve-still-hasnt-wrecked-the-powershift-in-his-12-ford-focus)
03/03/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 1

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It’s amazing how you can completely miss the obvious in the first revision or three, and then suddenly it smacks you in the face. Then again, everyone reviewing my work misses it too, so maybe such things aren’t as obvious.

"CobraJoe" (cobrajoe)
03/03/2017 at 15:02, STARS: 1

My boss’s favorite rhetorical question: “How can we make this never happen again?” I say rhetorical because he doesn’t want an answer, just for us to not make mistakes.

Annoying thing is, he reviews every project and the tough ones are also reviewed with most of the machine shop guys as well, and we still miss “obvious” things.

"nerd_racing" (nerd189)
03/03/2017 at 15:06, STARS: 0

The fellow Engineering students in college that would say “I really like Engineering, but I don’t like math...” usually disappeared after the 2 year associates degree.

What kind of math has you stumped? I really enjoyed getting my Mechanical Engineering Technology degree because it was 1/3 hands on labs and 2/3 lecture. We did some high level differential equations but not as much as the Engineering Science guys.

"BKosher84" (bkosher84)
03/03/2017 at 15:23, STARS: 1

Hahaha... You think being an engineer requires math?

I’m deal with bridges all day and have use a calculator/notebooks/reference material for everything.

"MrDakka" (mrdakka)
03/03/2017 at 15:28, STARS: 1

An engineering degree is a degree in looking stuff up in tables XD

"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
03/03/2017 at 15:30, STARS: 0

In my experience though it doesn’t require common sense or a firm grasp on reality

"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
03/03/2017 at 15:31, STARS: 1

I used to be an engineer until I took a protractor to the knee.

/notanengineerbutmakesSkyrimreferences

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/03/2017 at 15:32, STARS: 0

Oh, then Im probably over qualified.

"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
03/03/2017 at 15:38, STARS: 0

Three out of four ain’t bad

"aaronet" (aaronet)
03/03/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 1

My experience as well. Pretty much all of my 300+ level EE classes in college were essentially math classes taught in the engineering building. I write embedded software now and need to do some math but nothing high level at all.

"The Stig's former college room mate" (das-stig)
03/04/2017 at 10:55, STARS: 0

It requires much less math than my college professors let on. I once had aspirations of being an engineer. Until I met a thing called a differential equation in my 3rd year of college. I could not grasp the witchcraft that was presented to me, so I ended up changing majors.

Later on, I asked my father (an engineer) when the last time he had to do a differential equation was. He said, “college.”