I've worked with almost all of the Dilbert characters at one time or another.
Another test for "engineerness" is if you like "Office Space". SWMBO thinks it's the dumbest movie ever; all the engineers I know love it.
I'm one. Not just in degree, but I actually design electronic devices, mostly medical. Schematic design, PCB layout, firmware, soldering, debugging. I have a 1-man consulting company. I know there are others here.
I just finished the board layout for a really cool O2 sensor tonight. It will measure the O2 concentration using light. I bounce red light off a tablet that contains a powder that fluoresces. There is a very small time lag (nanoseconds) between when the red light hits the tablet and when it floresces. I blast the tablet with a high-frequency sine wave then use FFT (fast fourier transform) to measure the lag in response. This lag is proportional to the amount of O2 where the tablet is.
The cool thing is that it can be used in liquid, so works with beer! Once I get it working I'll watch the O2 deplete in my carboy during fermentation. Can't wait.
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Im a chemical engineer and work in a fermentation lab doing process development.
In some states, you could be - not all states require an engineering degree to become a licensed engineer.I marked engineer, even though I don't have a degree in engineering, nor have a passed a professional engineer exam. But I work with a lot of radio and network engineers and do a lot of the same work, and find myself thinking like them. So I might as well be an engineer.
E Coli? I do basically CHO cell culture purification, mab/fusion protein/recombinant proteins. Some of the guys i work with previously did some e coli projects at Amgen and other companies. Were currently looking for a chem e for our downstream group.....
newb said:unless of course the numbers are skewed because mostly just egineers are seeing this post going, sweet I MUST VOTE (in an efficient manner)
skullface1818 said:Its a tough call, because despite not being an engineer, I do have what could be called "the DIY spirit" and love to build/rigg together my equipment!
where does that place me?
DocScott said:I have a bs in chemical engineering but I went into medicine. Unfortunately don't think I'd be of much help in an engineering need at this point. I'll still vote for engineer though!
roymullins said:"I have this feeling that a large percentage of homebrewers are engineers."
absurd and ridiculous...
"I have this feeling that a large percentage of homebrewers are engineers."
absurd and ridiculous...
How is that absurd and ridiculous if this poll shows 40%? Even if it is skewed due to the fact that more engineers voted just because it said engineer it'd still be a large percentage. He didn't say majority...
max384 said:This is a case of selection bias, more specifically a sampling bias. Because of the title of the poll, an engineer is much more likely to be intrigued by it and thus click on the thread and vote. The poll is fun, but not useful in any meaningful way. While 40% does seem quite high, we don't know how much this poll was affected by the selection bias. My guess would be that if a similar poll were set up for nearly any profession with a similar title that most any profession would be overrepresented.
If you wanted to get a better sense of the proportion of homebrewers who are engineers (well... at least those homebrewers who post here), a new poll would need to be set up with many occupational categories, to include engineers. No preference for occupation should be mentioned in the title or anywhere in the poll. However, even with this type poll, you are still subject to some sampling bias. You see, those who work lower-paying and/or lower prestige jobs are less likely to post what they do than a more 'respectable' (not judging here, just going by societal norms) occupation such as an engineer.
Before you can trust the results of a 'study' (or poll or whatever), you've got to be able to trust the methods used to obtain those results.
I'm not an engineer, but I'm married to one. I'm a psychiatrist. I'd recommend the pairing.![]()
I think we have a statistician in our midst.
passedpawn said:Maybe not. I'm sure the engineers have been thinking the same thing. I have.