Group project for my engineering class, me and this kid who is a year ahead of me in the same program who i will call Jordan in the thread, start talking about my truck. well actually it all started when we were tearing down a gas generator. he started trying to tell me and the other two kids that there must be a battery to make the spark. i tried to tell him that there are magnets on the flywheel that generated the electricity for the spark. Well he was way too smart for that, so after about 1/2 an hour of telling him he was wrong, i said fine find it, since our project is to tear it down and and analyze how it works. well obviously i was right. then we started talking about how he wanted to put a turbo on his car like i had on my truck. he tried to tell me how i only had 8lbs of boost and probably 9:1 compression ratio, but his car had a 12:1 compression ratio. i said actually my compression ratio is 17.5:1 and in stock form the turbo peaks at about 15 psi (this figure was WAG since i don't have guages), and with my chip it is probably about 21 or 22 psi. he said that i was full of it and there was no way that just adding a chip would increase boost becuase the waste gate would prevent higher boost, and anything over 8 lbs. could crack the block or heads. i said that's odd becuase you openly admit to knowing nothing about diesels, and there is no waste gate on my truck. the boost is controlled by the injectors and how much fuel you put in + how much rpm your running. long story short i sent him here to find the information becuase he wouldn't believe me.

 

Possibly engineering isn't really in his future. Maybe a critic of some sort may be his calling. Or maybe buzz-word engineering.

 

Tell him to read a bit. We'll give him an education.....

 

yeah most of the engineering students at my school don't know their you know what from a hole in the ground.

 

Actually from the outside looking in he sounds like he is shaping up to be the stereo typical engineer! Doesn't know anything other then he reads and thinks he knows every thing and you know nothing!

 

I hate ignorante people like him, and the longer they go to school the "more" they "know" but in reality they are just as unintelligent as they were the day they went in. You know what they say, you can't polish a turd.

 

They can be viewed on the Super duty side of the house.

 

most engineers I hav delt with act the same as him. but I have found only a few exceptions!!!

 

hey now don't tred on engineers too badly. i'm gonna be a ME in 3 or so years, but with my backround with ag equipment and doing lots of work on them i hope i don't end up like the stereotypical engineer.

 

Ask him to figure out the heat range for the spark plugs in your engine. Oh hell, ask him about the coolant temps in a 67 volkswagen beetle.

Aaron

 

Yes, I have said that I met some well educated fools in my life.

 

Thats a good comparison. I've spent the las 32 years proving them wrong.

 

When I went to Jet engine school I observed many students doing just class room studies just zooming past the others that were just struggling like hell.

Then we went out into the shop area and started working on real engines that looked different then the pictures and there was a big turn around, many of the lagers just took off grade wise & many of the book learners had some problems.

The service (Or somebody) recognized this and implemented the OJT program. (On the Job Training) This program limited the use of books and put emphasis on the actual engine and it's working parts.

The reason I bring this up is we have all run across people that were "Sexual intellectuals" (F***in' know it all's) and you then put them in a situation to preform and they stumble all over themselves.

Just my obs.

Rog

 

Engineers, you gotta love them "NOT". They will design a building, load bearing beam, etc. that will withstand a said load. Bring the spec's to the job site, the foreman looks at the spec's and tell's the engineer that it will not hold the load, engineer says it will, you build it and it fails. Guess who is liable, you got it, the foreman, not the engineer that designed it.

 

Engineers...the reason the auto companies are failing....oh wait, it's the over-paid union guys on the assembly line fault, well...it must be, the auto worker got the shaft the engineer got a raise and another job to screw up.