ENGINEERS GETTING A MAKEOVER

TimCraig · #1 09-05-2007, 23:09

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A interesting article about the public face of engineers. Does any kid WANT to grow up to be Dilbert?

Dilbert is my hero and Wally rules!

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What is currently on TV that shows engineers and engineering in a favorable light?

If you mean fiction, none that I know of. In the reality genre, Mythbusters comes to mind.

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Why on TV do engineers live by themselves and never get the girl?

Because TV shows are written by liberal arts majors who are clueless and can't be bothered to explore below the stereotypes they've created? They were probably the "cool" kids in HS who made themselves feel good by putting down the future engineers.

artdutra04 · #2 10-05-2007, 00:26

And the winner of the Best Quote of 2007 about trying to make engineering more understandable and accessible to the average American teenager goes to...

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"It's like Brownian motion," said the academy's president, Wm. A. Wulf. "Everybody is going in different directions, and it seems that the net vector is zero."

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