Engineering slogans

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"When in doubt, throw it out."

"Don't just stand there....Do something, even if it's wrong.....you can always do it again."

"Measure twice, cut once."

"If it's worth doing, it's worth your time to do it right".

[Bryan D]

Over time our teams come to adopt the quote:
"If it doesn't work, blame the captain!"
It usual breaks up the stress at the time

[KORN_lover_2007]

We are obsessed with KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid, although we sometimes make a change to go with one of our mentors, Keep It Simple Scherman.

"r0x0rz the s0x0rz"

"Honk if j00 r0x0rz!"

[Metalhugginman]

Anything above the minimum is a waste!

[Matt Adams]

While I was talking to another student in one of my engineering classes, I was telling her that she's lucky to be in a major with such great odds, namely the high guy to girl ratio.

She countered with something along the lines of...

Yes, the odds are good... but the goods are odd!

It definitely made me crack up.

Matt

[Joe J.]

This is an old favorite from my team:
"Good enough for government work"

This is a new one from this year:
"Shut Up and Build"

These two are common statements from last year:
"Our first priority is Plan B."

"Well I can't get it to work." "Crush it in the vice and call it a day."

Then you have to include this one:
"God help us we're in the hands of engineers." Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park, 1993

[R81Honda]

"That will do... For now I guess"

"Ah just go ahead and run it like it is"

[Omni L]

Originally Posted by DanLevin247

For OCCRA, an off season robotics league, I had a little fun with our lable maker, labling such things as "band saw" "grinder" "floor" "window" "tom" "tools" and most importantly, "robot"

On that note we borrow a labelmaker early last quarter and labeled all kinds of things around our new, larger shop; most prominently our mid floor electrical sockets (which stick up about 6 inches and have 4 plugs, and make very pretty blue smoke when they short), which now read, "don't trip."
So far, only one or two people haven't tripped over them.

Oh, and my engineering slogan is:
"If it has to be perfect, find a mathematician; if you want it to work, find an engineer"

[Conor Ryan]

"Whats the difference between a Mechanical Engineer and a Civil Engineer?
Mechanical Engineers build bombs, Civil Engineers build targets"

[Devil2005]

"$@#$@#$@#$@# the robots, they're supposed to be our faithful servants" - Chandler Bing (Friends)

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by Timinator

My personal favorite.. "If it ain't broke, fix it till it is"

My wife, also an engineer, once observed a group of guy engineers tweaking some hardware to get the last 0.001% and commented wryly "...they're gonna fix it until it's broken".

-Kevin

[roboguy #1]

That wouldn't be the first time i heard that. My dad told me whats the difference between Civil and Mechanical Engineers....Some time to think..No Idea!...Well Mechanical Engineers build guns and weapons. Civil Engineers build targets for them.

[Jeff Pahl]

Everything Craftsman makes is a hammer...some of them just look funny

[fefie]

If something breaks........just use duck tape, life's geatest tool.