Engineering is the practice of mucking up once useful objects. Practitioners excel at telling skilled workers how to do things the engineers themselves have never done, nor are capable of learning. Engineers can expect to be paid menial wages while languishing in a cubicle and annoying productive people with endless demands for more submittals. Your life as an engineer will be designing stupid shit that laymen will fix in the field, and reviewing thousands of pages of eyewash to ensure that all systems are too comp-licated for the end users. Fortunately you will have months to incorrectly design systems that the talented technicians must build and install in weeks. They will make it work behind your back so you don't fly in on a site visit and fix things. You will be replaced in your prime by an intern and no one will notice or care that you are gone.
by notanengineer January 3, 2017
Get the engineering mug.A field of study offered by college universities that focuses on math and applied sciences. Students who decide to major in engineering are usually obese and socially awkward individuals (think Yu-gi-oh card players and band geeks) going into the major with the false hope that the big pay check later will make everything better. They sacrifice all good aspects of life (healthy eating habits, developing good social skills, having a open mind, and sex) in order to study arbitrary things such as multivariable calculus and thermodynamics. In their quest to become soulless number crunching zombies they begin to bash on other majors constantly complaining on how hard and important their major is and anything that's not engineering is irrelevant. In reality they are short changing themselves from developing important social networking skills (which is essential in the job market) and obtaining a well rounded education. When the time does come they will most likely screw up on the interview to get the big job (due to their social awkwardness) and end up teaching at a community college as a second rate professor.
Humanities/Business major: Hey loser!
Engineering student (in his head): I'll show you. What I'm studying is important and it's going to get me that big pay check. Then all the ladies will come to me.
10 years later.....
Humanities/Business major (now a CEO): Hey loser!
Engineering student (in his head): Doh! Well at least I have my health..... wait no I don't.
Engineering student (in his head): I'll show you. What I'm studying is important and it's going to get me that big pay check. Then all the ladies will come to me.
10 years later.....
Humanities/Business major (now a CEO): Hey loser!
Engineering student (in his head): Doh! Well at least I have my health..... wait no I don't.
by The_Scholar August 23, 2011
Get the engineering mug.During undergraduate engineering studies, a 3.0 grade point average is as large an accomplishment as a 4.0 in a liberal arts education.
by JMcFlyasdf November 5, 2011
Get the Engineering 3.0 mug.Due to the inevitable sausage fest that is an engineering classroom, the few girls in the class are considered hotter than they typically are on a 10 point scale while the guys s appear uglier than they are. i.e. a girl's hotness rating rises as the girl/guy ratio gets worse.
The only girl in the class is a 2, but due to the engineering curve she's a 5 because we're all horny dudes.
by etbitmydog February 5, 2010
Get the Engineering Curve mug.something that takes an unusually significant amount of time and/or effort to complete.
-commonly referring to a common household item that requires some sort of installation or assembly, but is unnecessarily complicated and/or contains instructions that are not easily understood by a person with average intelligence or insight.
-commonly referring to a common household item that requires some sort of installation or assembly, but is unnecessarily complicated and/or contains instructions that are not easily understood by a person with average intelligence or insight.
"these windshield wipers are a pain in the ass to install! why do they make the things that should be the simplest of tasks a f@#$%ing engineering project??!?!"
what the hell ever happened to "insert tab A into slot B" ??
what the hell ever happened to "insert tab A into slot B" ??
by polo December 10, 2005
Get the engineering project mug.A term used to described females that appear attractive on a university campus's engineering center, but if they were compared to females of another building on campus then they would only be seen as average.
Her? Yeah she's engineering center hot.. but if she were back at the main campus then she would be nothing.
Dude she's hot. Nahh man, you've just been at the engineering center for too long. She's only engineering center hot.
She's a 9 on the engineering center scale, but only a 6 on main campus.
Dude she's hot. Nahh man, you've just been at the engineering center for too long. She's only engineering center hot.
She's a 9 on the engineering center scale, but only a 6 on main campus.
by mrFIU February 6, 2017
Get the engineering center hot mug.Describes any mediocre looking girl who becomes hot only because she is in a class predominantly filled with guys.
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-- Dude, I don't know what it is with Lauren but I can't take my eyes off of her. She's not even that hot.
-- Yeah it's because you're in a class with 90% guys in it, she's not hot on a big scale, she's just engineering hot.
-- Yeah it's because you're in a class with 90% guys in it, she's not hot on a big scale, she's just engineering hot.
by cg33 October 15, 2009
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