Biscuit of the Day: An Engineering Joke
Here's a funny joke at the expense of my profession's need to replicate problems multiple times before we will fix them. Enjoy!
Four engineers were travelling by car to an IEEE seminar. As they went down a fairly steep grade to a hairpin turn, the car's brakes went out just as they reached the bottom and the car went off road into a ditch. Fortunately, the car's velocity was low, so everyone was ok and got out to survey the wreckage.
The chemical engineer said "Obviously, some constituent of the brake fluid has caused this failure to occur."
The mechanical engineer replied "I disagree, I would surmise that a brake component has suffered a catastrophic structural failure."
The electrical engineer also had a theory. "Fools, it is obvious an electrical component has ceased operation, thereby causing the brake malfunction."
The software engineer thought for some time, walking in circles around the mangled vehicle. When at last he spoke he said "Hmmm.... What would happen if we pushed the car back up the hill, got in, and tried the turn again?"
Four engineers were travelling by car to an IEEE seminar. As they went down a fairly steep grade to a hairpin turn, the car's brakes went out just as they reached the bottom and the car went off road into a ditch. Fortunately, the car's velocity was low, so everyone was ok and got out to survey the wreckage.
The chemical engineer said "Obviously, some constituent of the brake fluid has caused this failure to occur."
The mechanical engineer replied "I disagree, I would surmise that a brake component has suffered a catastrophic structural failure."
The electrical engineer also had a theory. "Fools, it is obvious an electrical component has ceased operation, thereby causing the brake malfunction."
The software engineer thought for some time, walking in circles around the mangled vehicle. When at last he spoke he said "Hmmm.... What would happen if we pushed the car back up the hill, got in, and tried the turn again?"
4 Comments:
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That's a great joke, Aeryth! But to make a nerdy joke even nerdier, let's analyze the situation... First, who was driving the car? At first glance, it may not seem important given that the cause of the wreck is most likely not due to human factors. Or was it? Hmm, the driver may have a different perspective given that they were operating the brakes at the time of malfuntion which then may have affected their reply to the situation. Or... was there an unmentioned fifth person that drove? Was this person also an engineer? If they were a civil engineer, would they mention the poor design of the road's steep nature and placement of the hairpin turn? Second, why were all of them going to the IEEE seminar? Maybe the chemical, mechanical and software engineers were good friends of the electrical engineer who was going to present his latest research findings at the seminar. And that might just explain his more obvious irritation ("Fools") over the incident. Third, since we know that the software engineer is male (sex unknown for the others), it could be deduced that male software engineers are not as bright as female software engineers. =)
Hey Brent,
Glad you enjoyed the joke. :) And good analysis too! :) From my experience, IEEE has been pretty open and published articles relevant to all engineering disciplines, not just the EEs. We had tons of events for the CS department co-sponsored by IEEE and they've done a lot to advocate for CSEs in the US. So it could be conceivable of everyone going to the seminar just to have fun. :)
Hehehe... I did wonder why a civil engineer wasn't included in the joke. I guess I will have to include another bad joke here so they aren't left out:
Q. What's the difference between a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer?
A. The first builds weapons and the second builds targets.
On the thing about gender and asking to replicate the problem, that's one of the core problems that infests computer science and not always a reflection of intelligence. :( We constantly get flooded with faults that happen once, then never happen again.
I envy you other engineering fields because you have nice reliable constants to build things on and don't have to deal with God applying a patch and gravity constants and rules of physics suddenly all changing out from underneath you. :) *cough* Windows! ;) I've even had processors decide on a whim that true AND false = true, so sometimes you can't even trust those basics. :)
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