A person, often who does not hold an engineering degree or does, but has no actual experience with real engineering and ended up in a different technical field. This person can often be found on facebook or other social media platforms criticizing engineers for apparent problems with consumer or other products that they believe could be better. This person is quick to point out obvious faults because they believe engineering is simply envisioning a perfect product, and that makes it happen. They have no understanding/experience with the cost, management, cross-functional team collaboration, qualification requirements, documentation requirements, problems of similar parts, legal regulations, interchangeability with other parts or assemblies, material properties and compatibility, corrosion resistance, lead times of parts and material, production costs, service restrictions and costs, low rate of failures pertaining to the one they unfortunately experienced, or many other constraints that limit the "perfect solution" that they envision.
Armchair engineer: "Its 2024, surely engineers could design a car that never rusts or corrodes, they just want you to pay for repairs and replacements to ensure they maintain profits". Engineer:" Sure, there are materials available to prevent corrosion for a longer time if you want to pay 6-8 figures for your vehicle that gets you A to B and costs 5-7 figures to repair and still requires yearly maintenance to avoid that condition. No rust or other corrosion on cars for the life of the car is a great idea though, not sure why us engineers didnt think of that, where did you get your armchair engineering degree? We should probably go back to your school."
by beer08 July 30, 2024
Get the Armchair Engineermug. by Pyro Guy Because Yes December 19, 2021
Get the Engineer Daymug. When a man leaves his hard penis in ice, and a woman takes a hot shower and as you can imagine it can really cool her engine.
by Brando Cal-Risian May 15, 2021
Get the Cool Your Enginemug. The premise that 1) Anything can be fixed by hitting it with a hammer, and 2) If you cannot fix the problem, you do not have a big enough hammer.
See also: Percussive Maintenance, Harmonic Persuasion.
See also: Percussive Maintenance, Harmonic Persuasion.
"It's The First Law of Engineering, Leonidas,” Granadica sent. “If you can’t fix it, you’re not using a big enough hammer.”
-Granadica in The Hot Gate, book three of the Troy Rising series by John Ringo
-Granadica in The Hot Gate, book three of the Troy Rising series by John Ringo
by Western_Rambler November 5, 2020
Get the The First Law of Engineeringmug. A school located in Gosta Green, B7. It’s engineering based but it’s still shit innit. Kids think they’re bad but really aren’t. Fix up blud
Person 1: Oh I got a place at aston university engineering academy.
Person 2: That’s rah peak I heard the teachers shag the students uno.
Person 2: That’s rah peak I heard the teachers shag the students uno.
by AUEADefinitions February 5, 2020
Get the aston university engineering academymug. That was pure enginement right there!
by ghettohippo September 4, 2009
Get the enginementmug. Someone who sucks at every other engineering, so they spend their life looking at parking lots and talking about cement. They are often mistaken for traffic cones. However they do like complaining about how hard their life is as an engineer. However, their course load is nothing like a true engineer. They are the bros of engineering.
Guy1: see him over there, hes a civil engineer. He does nothing all day but dreams of concrete.
Girl1: yeah he just mansplained what addition is to me. But then he did it wrong.
Girl1: yeah he just mansplained what addition is to me. But then he did it wrong.
by urban_dick_69 March 28, 2024
Get the Civil Engineermug.