Engineering slogans

[EIROBOTICS86]

if it aint broke fix it or if it dont fit get a bigger Hammer

[kmcclary]

Old saying:
- "ALWAYS have a 'Plan B' in your back pocket..."

MY variant:

- "You always need a 'Plan B', AND enough time reserved to execute it!"

(This implies a known, FIXED deadline for Plan A's success, at which time you must start Plan B. If you have insufficient resources to do both in parallel, this implies a forced abandonment of Plan A.)

- Keith

[Adam Y.]

Hear I go with my favorite sayings:
From battlebots and this is the truth: Set screws suck!!!
From my physics teacher: Close enough.
Funny about the hammers talk hear is what my engineer said last year: I don't want you hitting the frame anymore with a hammer unless you tell me.

[pauluffel]

Our robot last had some, err...issues. Of course, the best way to fix this is hammers, and we had the perfect one to do this.

Ths hammer is about the length from the tip of your elbow to the end of your middle finger. Notice the curved handle? That"s generally a feature of axes because it allows for more force at the cost of accuracy. Perfect for robots...

[RebAl]

red + black = fire

[DaBruteForceGuy]

I've used hammers identicle to that on the job site. But i didn't think it was big enough


- Hey, my slogen comes from the jobsite as well....*C TITLE*

[RBrandy]

cut first, then measure

[Gope]

My personal favorite, which originated in Nasa

If it works then it dosen't have enough gadgets

[Aaron Lussier]

I heard this my second year on the team:

" Look at the screw from the nuts perspective"

- Chris Carnavale

[Mike Rush]

If precision does not work, use force.

[Mike Rush]

Engineering is the art of molding materials we do not entirely understand, into shapes we cannot really analyze, to withstand forces we cannot really assess, such that the public at large is unaware of the extent of our ignorance.

Anonymous

[BaysianLogik]

We just have KISS

[Adam Y.]

Hear is another one: Make sure the robot doesn't roll off the table.

[pauluffel]

A couple of acronyms that aren"t really slogans, but are used alot during design...
When we"re drawing a potential design on one of the boards, we explain it to everyone as we"re drawing. This leads to some drawings that don"t look quite right, and are then headed be the ubiquitous NTS (not to scale.) Once someone finshes their picture, they finally stop to look at it and decide to also add the letters POS next to NTS.

P.S. We also write POS on most prototypes because it"s very fitting.

[asher]

"for every complex system that fails there exists a simpler system that works"

my prof that i started with in FIRST painted this on a huge sign which now hangs in my lab, it will be with the 31ers forever

and as woodie told us all:

"set screws inhale audibly"

asher