• Question: What's your favourite engineering joke?

    Asked by Grace dp on 15 Jan 2020.
    • Photo: Yuri Yushtein

      Yuri Yushtein answered on 15 Jan 2020:

      Black cat theory : Mechanical Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a light room. Chemical Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark room. Software Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, while the cat is not there. Systems Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, while the cat is not there, and then someone yells: “I’ve got it!”.

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      Stephen Durrant answered on 15 Jan 2020:

      My favorite joke is a cartoon about a the design of a swing in a tree. You can look it up on line ‘system engineering joke about a swing’

    • Photo: Abbie Hutty

      Abbie Hutty answered on 20 Jan 2020:

      My favourite joke combines engineering with something else that I love – kittens.

      Q: A litter of kittens are sliding down a sloping roof. Which one slides fastest?
      A: The one with the lowest mew

      (mu, pronounced “mew” is the symbol for the coefficient of friction, which is the term that controls how quickly a kitten (or anything else) on a sloping roof would slide)

      It’s geeky and I love it.

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