General Engineering Introduction/Attitude/quiz

{Engineers view everyone else as |type="()"} - perpetrators - civilians - clients - patients + customers {Asking questions of an engineer is: |type="[]"} - Something that should be fun + Scary, they may react with anger, intense repressed anger. + Dangerous, they may retaliate by putting ketchup on your wrist pad - A pleasant experience because they have been trained to be nice. {Most engineers describe themselves |type="()"} - by the technology they work with + by their role in the project team - by the people they serve - by their patents - as general engineers {Most engineers like to talk most about: |type="()"} + the projects they have been on - the types of technology they studied as undergrads - how much more broad and general of an engineer they have become - the company they work for {If you can not understand the question, if you can not figure out where to start, and you like that feeling, then: |type="()"} + become an engineer - drop out of engineering - study more - go to school {If you feel everyone else is smarter/better qualified than you then |type="()"} - find somewhere you are smarter than everyone - assume you are the single most odd, worthless engineer in the world + assume there are many others like you and it is up to you to develop technology for them - you have successfully made all the worlds problems your own {Engineers living with uncertainty, confusion and failure comfort themselves using all the techniques below except which? |type="()"} - remembering it is the world's problem, the world's uncertainty, the world's confusion - remembering the engineering challenge is always to learn something new nobody else knows + self-depreciation, self-doubt, self uncertainty, self failure - the moment of clarity, the light bulb, metanoia moment is just around the curve {Engineering courses are so difficult, you have to choose two from which group of four below? |type="()"} - blaming racism, sexism, petitions and law suites + study, socialize, sleep and sports - searching for tutors, cheating, chanting "I am not good at something , and dropping out - not liking, not wanting to be like older students, instructors, working engineers, and not wanting to participate in engineering societies {One of the big problems in engineering is that the rest of the world doesn't know what engineers do. Why? |type="()"} - engineers are obnoxious - engineers don't work with people + engineers spend most of their time working with other engineers - engineers are not found working in walmart {If you feel someone else has faults: |type="[]"} + forgive them + recognize your own gifts + call them normal - confront them