Nicknames
Nicknames
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Any other nicknames for engineers out there? Here are a few I know of:
Ginger Beer (Engineer)
Sparky (Electrical Engineer)
Rock Licker (Mining Engineer)
Sapper (Military Engineer)
Ginger Beer (Engineer)
Sparky (Electrical Engineer)
Rock Licker (Mining Engineer)
Sapper (Military Engineer)





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Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer Consultant
France
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Go Mechanical Engineering
Tobalcane
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Nick
I love materials science!
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"But what... is it good for?"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
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As far as other terms for engineers, when I was in school, the industrial engineers were called imaginary engineers. To this day, I'm not sure if that was because of the i before e (You know, sqrt(-1)) or it was a statement on the content of the degree. Either way, I found it pretty funny.
And, I'm pretty sure we've all been called the most standard engineer nickname, especially after a screwup. "Get the G#$ D&*# engineer out here, NOW!"
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Heavy Metal at Power Plants where I provide technical support.
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rmw
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......stacking generator rotor iron.
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David
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Decades before the outbreak of the American Civil War, corps of engineers, called such, were part of the armies, whose duties were again to construct, or to supervise construction, of defences and fortifications, as well as to draw maps, build bridges (temporary and permanent), and survey the landscape to facilitate troop movements. This kind of organization probably grew from the European military organization of armies, for which there were many published treatises in both centuries.
Although the term "sapper" wasn't really common in the American Civil War for a kind of engineer, certain kinds or parts of fortifications were still referred to as "saps." Perhaps the borrowing of infantry (or other branches of the army) by the engineers to do much of the physical labor led to the decline of the term in common use.
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They were affectionately known as "the pair of testes". Some unkind people refereed to them as "those testicles" and there were other veriations..........
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The real joke is that he was a sales person and probably earned more money than me.
jimbo
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I have heard ME referred to as "gearheads".
Waste water engineer- "Turd Herder"
Clyde
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Mechanical Engineers build ships, planes, missles, weapons while Civil Engineers build targets
Keep the wheels on the ground
Bob
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Where the second one comes from should be obvious. I'm curious how many of 'ya know where the first term comes from?
//mjs
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