You Might Be An Engineer If...

You Might Be an Engineer if...

• your favorite James Bond character is "Q".
• you see a good design and still have to change it.
• you still own a slide rule and you know how to use it.
• your family haven't the foggiest idea what you do at work.
• in college you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure.
• you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven.
• you are better with a Karnaugh map than you are with a street map.
• you think the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers.
• you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.
• you think "cuddling" is simply an unproductive application of heat exchange
• you have owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for.
• you make four sets of drawings (with seven revisions) before making a bird bath.
• you have trouble writing anything unless the paper has horizontal and vertical lines.
• your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies.
• you think the value of a book is directly proportionate to the amount of tables, charts and graphs it contains.