The practice of designing and constructing systems that operate in hyperdimensional realms, where the normal constraints of physics, materials, and reality don't apply. Hyperdimensional engineers don't build structures—they build "existence configurations," patterns that manifest across infinite dimensions, taking forms that no 3D being could comprehend. The challenge is that hyperdimensional engineering has no design principles (they don't apply), no materials (they don't exist), and no quality control (failure is meaningless when everything exists simultaneously). Despite these minor obstacles, hyperdimensional engineering has produced some remarkable "structures"—none of which we can perceive, but all of which are technically perfect, which is either the greatest achievement in engineering history or the biggest nothing-burger ever constructed.
Hyperdimensional Engineering Example: "She was a hyperdimensional engineer who designed a bridge across infinite dimensions. The bridge existed in all possible configurations simultaneously—built, not built, half-built, made of stone, made of light, made of pure mathematics. It was the most ambitious engineering project in history, and also completely useless, since no one could perceive it, access it, or even prove it existed. She considered it her finest work."
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Example: "She dreamed of multiverse engineering, designing a bridge that connected all the universes where she'd made different choices. In one universe, she was a doctor; in another, an artist; in another, a mother. The bridge would let all her selves visit, compare notes, share lives. The engineering was impossible; the dream was not."
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The locomotive engineer dumped the train when a bicyclist rode in front of his train in the grade crossing.
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Nah bro, she wasn’t the one… She wouldn’t take a twin engine turd with me.
Nah bro, she wasn’t the one… She wouldn’t take a twin engine turd with me.
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A high-speed, jet-powered contraption resembling a fighter plane, whimsically imagined as a "global engine" (a fantastical, all-encompassing power source) navigating a wind tunnel filled with gusts of flatulent air. This playful term evokes the image of a supercharged vehicle testing its aerodynamics in a comically challenging environment.
A high-speed, jet-powered contraption resembling a fighter plane, whimsically imagined as a "global engine" (a fantastical, all-encompassing power source) navigating a wind tunnel filled with gusts of flatulent air. This playful term evokes the image of a supercharged vehicle testing its aerodynamics in a comically challenging environment.
After a week of testing, the engineers finally released the global engine fighter in a tunnel full of windy farts, sending it zooming through the air with a trail of giggles behind it.
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1. (of an undergraduate in college) a branch of STEM that focuses primarily on the movement of electrons and their applications in various ways. Those who practice electrical engineering (called Electrical Engineers, abbreviated EEE's) tend to lose touch with reality and become completely engulfed by concepts and math incomprehensible to all except other EEE’s and MATLAB. People often enter the field due to a severe lack of social success, including being unpopular in high school. They are then inspired to power through one excruciating class after another, enticed by the promises of large cash rewards straight out of college. The percentage of male electrical engineering students with girlfriends is given by the Planck constant, 6.626e-34…another reason why EEE's are persuaded to give up all hope of regular life and instead devote every last drop of mental energy to nearly failing every single class their academic advisor tells them to take. In between getting bullied by their coursework, many EEE’s take great delight in ridiculing other college students in general, and mechanical engineers and computer science majors in particular, for earning easier and less valuable degrees than their own.
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early-mid 19th century: from English, refers to researchers and scientists that discovered the foundational principles of electrical engineering, such as Georg Ohm (Ohm’s Law), Gustav Kirchhoff (KCL, KVL), James Maxwell (Maxwell’s Equations), and more.
1. (of an undergraduate in college) a branch of STEM that focuses primarily on the movement of electrons and their applications in various ways. Those who practice electrical engineering (called Electrical Engineers, abbreviated EEE's) tend to lose touch with reality and become completely engulfed by concepts and math incomprehensible to all except other EEE’s and MATLAB. People often enter the field due to a severe lack of social success, including being unpopular in high school. They are then inspired to power through one excruciating class after another, enticed by the promises of large cash rewards straight out of college. The percentage of male electrical engineering students with girlfriends is given by the Planck constant, 6.626e-34…another reason why EEE's are persuaded to give up all hope of regular life and instead devote every last drop of mental energy to nearly failing every single class their academic advisor tells them to take. In between getting bullied by their coursework, many EEE’s take great delight in ridiculing other college students in general, and mechanical engineers and computer science majors in particular, for earning easier and less valuable degrees than their own.
ORIGIN
early-mid 19th century: from English, refers to researchers and scientists that discovered the foundational principles of electrical engineering, such as Georg Ohm (Ohm’s Law), Gustav Kirchhoff (KCL, KVL), James Maxwell (Maxwell’s Equations), and more.
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Girlfriend: I love you so much!
Electrical Engineer: I love you as much as the Bose-Einstein Distribution’s value at E = µ!
Girlfriend: What does that mean?
Electrical Engineer: It means I love you infinitely much, because at the point where the function goes to…*continues to ramble for a half-hour*
Business major: I feel so stressed, I think I’m going to crash out.
Electrical Engineer: Come do these MOSFET circuit experiments, obtain expressions for these electric fields, convolve these CT signals using Fourier transforms, and derive wave equations for these free electrons. If you aren’t doing electrical engineering, you don’t know what being stressed really feels like.
Girlfriend: I love you so much!
Electrical Engineer: I love you as much as the Bose-Einstein Distribution’s value at E = µ!
Girlfriend: What does that mean?
Electrical Engineer: It means I love you infinitely much, because at the point where the function goes to…*continues to ramble for a half-hour*
Business major: I feel so stressed, I think I’m going to crash out.
Electrical Engineer: Come do these MOSFET circuit experiments, obtain expressions for these electric fields, convolve these CT signals using Fourier transforms, and derive wave equations for these free electrons. If you aren’t doing electrical engineering, you don’t know what being stressed really feels like.
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The Boomer Engineer is a master of analog solutions navigating a digital world.
Often seen squinting at a touchscreen or asking, "So... what is the cloud, exactly?".
They bring decades of experience—and a healthy dose of skepticism—to every tech update.
May require a millennial translator for anything involving AI, apps, or acronyms longer than three letters.
The Boomer Engineer is a master of analog solutions navigating a digital world.
Often seen squinting at a touchscreen or asking, "So... what is the cloud, exactly?".
They bring decades of experience—and a healthy dose of skepticism—to every tech update.
May require a millennial translator for anything involving AI, apps, or acronyms longer than three letters.
We spent half the meeting explaining how the new IoT sensors work because our Boomer Engineer thought "the cloud" was just a fancy term for offsite storage.
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