Hows about some stats on the great members we have on here?
In what capacity are you motivated?

 

This would be extremely interesting to know... hobbyists vs. students vs. professionals.

 

While electronics is currently a hobby of mine, it is also my future profession

 

oops, I voted for number 3, It's my hobby and I am obsessed with it, but it isnt my profession yet. So do I still count for that catagory? I hope I didnt screw up your data analysis.

Thats the great part about engineering, chances are that your job is also your hobby. So it makes it much better than say a buisness major. Now are EE's better than ME's?

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To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
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Better in what way? Isn't that like asking if dentists are better than ophthalmologists?

 

a who?

 

hmmm, I guess i did need to specify my question better...I guess what I meant was are EE's more (creative/challenged/knowledged/interesting) than ME's?

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To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

Do you Google?

 

I would have to say "not necessarily so." So here goes..
Not necessarily so. :lol:

If I compare my job to say an ME who works on space shuttle rocket system design, I would have to say (in my opinion only) that ME would
certainly be more challenged, and stressed compared to myself.
These are all subjective terms and relative of course.

OTOH, I might consider my job more interesting than say an ME who does gear design. Eye of the beholder kind of thing I guess..

 

Well, it looks like most users are active in electronics at both a hobby and professional level by a wide margin. In some cases, this leaves little room for much else in ones life. Ha!

Next poll:

"Your significant other is"
1) Not at all happy.
2) What significant other
3) Filing the divorce papers as I write this

 

Actually, more people know what an ophthalmologist is than there are people who can pronounce it correctly. Most say "opp-tha-mologist". Maybe they can't see how it's spelled and need to see one.

Dean

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R.I.P.

 

You were probably taught phonetics in school, as was I. Unfortunately, many people weren't.

 

Well, phonics is just the tip of the iceberg, Ron. I've been around a lot of schools and school systems over the last 20+ years as a teacher, and I can say that overall, schools in the U.S. are quickly deteriorating. As I was leaving Oklahoma seven years ago, schools in the Oklahoma City area were patting themselves on the back for converting over to some kind of a system -- I can't remember their terminology, for I was only introduced to it and discovered that it sucked terribly -- where students have only four courses at a time, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, about 1.5 hours each for the first semester and then four new courses, same way, second semester (at least I think that was the way it worked). They claimed longer class sessions, and more courses of study during a student's educational life, but when you actually put the pencil to the math, they actually spend less time overall per subject and couldn't possibly cover what they used to in the old system. The result was that you were going to have students that knew a little about a lot but not a lot about anything in particular.

Dean

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Contributing Editor emeritus, "Q & A", of the former "Poptronics" magazine (formerly "Popular Electronics" and "Electronics Now" magazines).

R.I.P.

 

could it have been 4 classes one day and 4 differnet classes the next day, and just alternate between the 2? thats how my highschool was.

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To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

My 'significant other' is a soldering iron !
... and my wife knows it !!!

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