Originally Posted by
sherwood
I have, and I'll tell you a lot of them don't know half of what you'd expect them to. My friend is an ME at the top of his class, yet he was still scared shitless of the sparks coming off of a car battery :rofl:
So I started jabbing him with the jumper leads
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:rofl: a lot of people are like that man, book smart but nothing else. We call them 'engineering accountants', because that's all they'll be. Great at math but absolutely worthless in the real world.
A requirement in my ME program is an internal combustion class, which includes several engine tear downs/rebuilds and part identification. Personally I think it should be a freshman intro class, but somehow it's just a super easy senior level class. I think a lot of other ME programs are like that too, at least for an automotive concentration.