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Outing a bogus structural Engineer

Well he could have the degree but not be working in the feild.
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Entirely correct; all we're saying is that if he's not in IStructE or ICE then it is extremely unlikely that he's a practicising engineer.
 
Architect said:
However I did pass the details on to someone respected and trusted by most posters on the board - Gravy - in order that someone else had all the relevant details and could confirm my bona fides if required.
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And I've been successfully passing myself off as a Scottish architect ever since...just for the chicks. I slip up with the accent quite a bit, though.
 
Gravy said:
And I've been successfully passing myself off as a Scottish architect ever since...just for the chicks. I slip up with the accent quite a bit, though.
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And in a stunning coincidence, I spend a lot of my time pretending to be a guide and calling Manhattan "New Amsterdam" and other "facts" to foreign tourists. Whenever they question the accuracy, I give em Jones' telephone number and tell 'em that he'll confirm everything.... ;)
 
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Arus808 said:
Unfortunately, you have to be a member or the thread was deleted to see it.
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You have to be a member; I'm waiting for permission to post at the moment.

The guys seems a bit.....full of himself? confrontational? ach, you know what I mean.....
 
ponderingturtle said:
That is because there are so few problems that have anylitic solutions that you have to remove certain things for the problem to be solveable, by some means other than brute computing power.

Hence the spherical cow joke about physicists.
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even if you aren't going for an exact analytical solution and are employing numerical means, assumptions are still needed.
 
In my position (some 2 years into my first architecture job, not liscensed / registered but holding a professional degree) I'm allowed to call myself an architect, however, I must qualify that with something else to seperate my position and expertise from someone who is a registered professional (Though I will be one in a few years). So, in my current position, I'm given the title "architectural associate", but in talking with several other people at my level in other firms in the area, it seems that everyone calls it something different. "Intern Architect", "Graduate Architect", "Apprentice Architect", "Arch-1" (I find that one particularly lame, big corporate firm, though) are some of the titles that include architect, but some others don't use the word at all, to avoid any misunderstanding. So, you get Designer, Draftsman, Assistant Project Manager, Assosciate, Intern, etc from those folks.

Generally, it's considered socially acceptable to refer to yourself as an "architect" if you're trained as one, even if you haven't passed registration yet: if you're asked what you do at a cocktail party, for instance. To do so in any sort of professional capacity without a liscense could land you in some fairly serious legal trouble, however.
 
you're asked what you do at a cocktail party, for instance
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You mean that you tell people that you're in architecture! Could you not make up something more socially acceptable, like drug runner or hired assassin?
 
Gravy said:
And I've been successfully passing myself off as a Scottish architect ever since...just for the chicks. I slip up with the accent quite a bit, though.
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One of my "architect" buddies does a better impression of a Scottsman than he does of an Architect. His accent is really convincing (to a non-Scot, at any rate).
 
You mean that you tell people that you're in architecture!
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I suppose I could tell them that I'm a JREF ninja . . .

Actually, the worst things about people finding out you're in architecture is that they either 1) ask you to design them a house, or 2) they assume you make a ton of money. It's not like being a lawyer, folks. You can't just pass the test a week after you graduate and sign on to some big firm for $90k per year with no experience.
 
Minadin said:
One of my "architect" buddies does a better impression of a Scottsman than he does of an Architect. His accent is really convincing (to a non-Scot, at any rate).
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What, you mean he drinks ferociously then shouts unintelligibly before going for a deep fried pizza supper?


Best North American scottish impression thus far is Mike Myers as his own dad in "So I married an axe murderer". Richard E Grant isn't bad (Warlock) either, mind.

Worst remains (to this day) Scottie from Star Trek.
 
Minadin said:
Actually, the worst things about people finding out you're in architecture is that they either 1) ask you to design them a house, or 2) they assume you make a ton of money. It's not like being a lawyer, folks. You can't just pass the test a week after you graduate and sign on to some big firm for $90k per year with no experience.
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:D Yup. Absoulte proof that you're an architect (well almost) for real!


Betcha also find that when people show you their new house, you keep looking at all the dodgy bits and having to bite your tongue.......
 
Stuart, "Head! Paper! Now! Move that melon of yours if you can. Hauling that gargantuan cranium about. No kidding. His head's like Sputnik. Spherical, but pointy in parts. That was offside, wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow."
 
joobz said:
When i was in undergrad, i had some ME friends of mine arguing about whether or not the Starship Enterprize could have withstood the crash with earth in the 5th movie (i think 5th movie). They were performing a whole bunch of structural calculations based upon some published ship schematic.
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What a complete waste of time. Everyone knows that the Enterprise has shields and inertial dampening systems. These systems can significantly decrease the damage caused by such an impact. Unless their schematic also included specifications for these systems, they simply cannot make an accurate analysis of the structural integrity of the ship.

I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

/another P.E.
 
Architect said:
What, you mean he drinks ferociously then shouts unintelligibly before going for a deep fried pizza supper?


Best North American scottish impression thus far is Mike Myers as his own dad in "So I married an axe murderer". Richard E Grant isn't bad (Warlock) either, mind.

Worst remains (to this day) Scottie from Star Trek.
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Myers' Da' was a Scot, complete with a proper accent IIRC. Thus it is not unusual for him to have got it right.


It is amazing what one can put over on others. In a recent (yawn) human resources course at work we were asked to write down two truths about ourselves and one lie. Then you took your paper around to everyone else in the class one at a time and asked them to point to the statement on your sheet that is the lie. My lie was ," I have a B.Sc. in physics". Although several people in the class knew me personally only one of about the 20 in the class correctly identified the lie. Most picked the truth statement about how old I was when I got married the first time as a lie.

It seems then that I could very easily claim a Bachelor's degree in physics and have very few people even suspect that it is a lie.
 
jaydeehess said:
Myers' Da' was a Scot, complete with a proper accent IIRC. Thus it is not unusual for him to have got it right.
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The "Hoy, Heid" bit is pure genius and bang on the nail.

You'll like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaxpS4T8sxw&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX_8knnjbbo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfzbGTvEl8&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2rhQ-G4arg&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iZZLWOGwpA&mode=related&search=

Learn, lads.....
 
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