/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3214089
cool job bro

>>3214089
>construction worker reporting in

I'd prefer to have a real profession

>>3214096
nope. I have "real" engineers working under me as well as hands. I must say that the hands are much more useful sometimes.

>>3214096
you mad?

>implying engineering consultancy isn't master race

enjoy your hardhat and faggotry whilst I chill out in my airconditioned 15th floor office, checking out the hot receptionist as I fondle my free gym membership and company amex

>>3214100
Wheres your professional lincensure?

>>3214126
>engineering consultancy

I met one of these faggots once. The most useless motherfucker I ever contracted. Motherfucker walk around the job site, look around and left. He had no insight as to what was need to be done or how to do it. I wrote a nasty letter to his boss about him and was told that he was going to be reprimanded. I hope the fucker got fired.

>>3214141
>wage slave detected

>>3214146
>implying I'm not salary

>>3214141

>I ever contracted

>>3214146

>Implying that he is a wage slave

>>3214141
>>3214141
>so fucking jelly

I bet he drove off in his mercedes to fuck his hot wife in his mansion, whilst you angrily scribble out a letter in your portable shitbox of an "office" in your stinking high vis work clothes and dirty steel capped boots.

go eat a pie, blue collar boy.

>>3214155
>implying a salary isn't a wage.

>>3214188
>blue collar

and damn proud of it.

I love my job. I don't do it just for the money.

>>3214190
>implying trigfags opinions matter.

WAIT WAIT WAIT, HOLD THE FUCK UP

OP, did you even go to college?

If you didn't, YOU ARE NOT A FUCKING ENGINEER.

christ, tradies these days.

>>3214217
so much butthurt

>>3214228
"I'm in charge of the building! I'm an architect!"

"No, you're a custodian."

>>3214217
>>3214246
I worked my ass off for 25+ years in the oil fied. Who the fuck are you to tell me I'm not an engineer when the company has already given me the title and position for 10 years now.

>>3214256
wheres your professional licensure?

>>3214217
>>3214246


Shit the other day a "real" engineer didn't even now what a union was. She thought it was a workers union or something. Dumb bitch.

>>3214256

We understand your pain. You're an honorary engineer.

>>3214256
Who the fuck are you to tell me I'm not a CEO when the company I just created just now bestowed the title upon me?

>>3214260
>professional licensure

HERP DERP WHY AREN'T APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT BUERACRATS

fuck liberal scum like you

>>3214266
>honorary engineer

haha oh wow the butthurt is really flowing. Funny how most of the real engineers at work have no fucking clue wats going on and only get by because they ask for help from "blue collar/honorary" engineers like me.

>>3214261

Shit the other day "real" hand didn't even know what fluid mechanics was. He thought it was some kind of mechanic that worked on fluids.

>>3214206
>implying the crutch of anonymity is a good thing

>>3214264
>doesn't understand how licensing works

>ITT: old guy has a job and trolls are just students bitter about recession and unpaid internships

>>3214277
haha funny you bring this up cause literaly about a month ago an engineer tried to find the flow rate from vessel to vessel and he fucked it all up. Hand to bail him out with very simple math and common sense.

>>3214246
Hey man, I actually am a custodian. Well, “Project manager for a facilities contractor” but that is just a high level custodian.
Point is I needed a BS to get here and have to earn 21 cr. hrs. of infection control procedure in the next year to keep it. I guess that’s what makes “tradies these days” what they are.
That said, my office is still in the basement.
Feels bad.

>>3214276

>>implying the vast majority of engineers care about doing the shit you do in the field

Not everyone wants to work on the same stuff. And thank god we all don't. Many props to all the aerospace engineers who've gotten us into space, and the mechanical engineers who've gotten us our robots and vehicles, and the electrical engineers who've gotten us all our electronics.

Good thing these people had the balls to probe different fields and the patience to be able to learn stuff they didn't and applied bits of things they've learned here and there.

>>3214299
>implying there job doesn't depend on learning the shit I do in the field


face it faggots you're butthurt

>>3214299
>mechanical engineers
>robots

u cnt b srs

>>3214310
Srsly, Andromeda was the last good sci-fi ;_;

>>3214309

>>implying you do the jobs of aerospace, electrical and mechanical engineers in your field

You lost all credibility there.

ok real engineers

find the limit of (4-sqrt(16+h))/h as h approaches 0


DO NOT USE WOLFRAM

DO NOT APPROXIMATE

DO NOT USE L'HOSPITAL

SHOW YOUR WORK

>>3214329
lol shut them "real" engineers up

>>3214329
>mfw engineers pretend they're scientists of equal caliber to einstein

>>3214329

Oh that was so hard my friend, multiply by the conjugate of numerator and it all equals -(1/8).

ITT middle-aged homo needs validation in his crummy job and is mad that he spent 15-25 years doing something that kids could do in 4-8. He will always point out the flaws of others in order to feel better about himself. He will reply to this post, but there will be no one around to care or answer.

>>3214365
using wolfram i see

>>3214329
>>3214329
>>3214329
>DO NOT USE L'HOSPITAL

why the fuck not? it's applicable to this question, and I will use it.

the limit is 1/8

structural engineer here.

A harder limit would be;
sqrt(x^2 +5x + 19) - x
as x -> inf.

>>3214386
>in college

Wheres your licensure?

>>3214386
so much fail

>>3214397
>>3214397
I assumed that was assumed, although I do graduate next year.

>>3214399
>>3214399
sorry, -1/8

PROVE 1 + 1 = 2

DO NOT USE PEANO POSTULATES

DO NOT USE ZFC

DO NOT USE PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA

SHOW ALL WORK

hey QUESTION

can someone tell me a non academic job that uses mathematical limits in any way shape or form?

curious

>>3214393
obviously zero

ITT: Faggots who have no fucking idea what engineering is.
It's fuck ups like OP that give engineers such a shitty image.
YOU.
ARE.
NOT.
A.
FUCKING.
ENGINEER.
Engineering is the application of science in the design, planning, construction, and maintenance of buildings, machines, and other manufactured things.
Engineers are concerned with either research or design- they are not overpaid labor.
You are a technician, or whatever the fuck you want to call yourself.

Some examples of recent developments in my specific discipline of engineering:
http://chenected.aiche.org/nanotechnology/chemical-engineers-design-nanoparticles-to-target-cancer-t
umors/
http://chenected.aiche.org/materials/nanotechnology-cuts-cast-concrete-production-time-and-co2-emiss
ions/
http://chenected.aiche.org/chemicals/mits-carbon-nanotube-antennas-could-transform-solar-industry/
There you go engineers are busy curing cancer, not fastening bolts.

>inb4 U mad

>>3214422
inb4 butthurt engineers claim all the bullshit they learned is applicable

>>3214402
Then you're not an engineer silly pants. Read the thread.

>>3214437
>Engineering is the application of science

hahaha oh wow

enjoy being no different than a fucking brick layer, enjoy being no different than a peasant.

meanwhile i sit at my office trying to, alongside other actual scientists, change the world through new mathematical theories and/or scientific experiments.

>>3214354

Why do i keep seeing this shit picture. The topic has nothing do with economists. At least replace the word with "engineers."

>>3214437
>has delusions of grandeur about paper pushing

>>3214474

I can sometimes see why mathematicians look down on engineers, but economist even comparing himself to an engineer is laughable :)

>>3214446
>>3214446
>>3214446
structual engineering student, whatever.

the point is, I WILL be an engineer, unlike the OP, who tightens bolts and uses "common sense" to solve problems and calls himself an engineer.

seriously, is that even legal? isn't it like someone calling themself a doctor because they change sheets of patients, give them bathes and know to only take 2 aspirin tablets at once?

shit should be illegal, and the company OP works for prosecuted.

>>3214329
give them time, it takes a while to reach for the HP 50G you know..

>>3214474
Takes too much work.

>>3214487
>tightens bolts

I wish you work for my company. I would make your life a living hell.

Also multibillion dollar oil corporations never lose lawsuits buddy

>>3214472

just wanted to say thanks for doing our bitch work so we can actually create something that is useful to society and make that paper in the process, nigger

>>3214329
Let <span class="math">f:x->\sqrt{x}[/spoiler]. We know that for any derivable function f , we have:
<div class="math">f'(x)=\lim_{h->0} {\frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}}</div>

From this, we know that <div class="math">-f'(4)=\lim_{h->0} {\frac{\sqrt{16+h}-\sqrt{16}}{h}}</div>

And <div class="math"> f'(x)=\frac{1}{2 \sqrt{x}} \;\; (x \in R^*) </div>
therefore <span class="math">\lim_{h->0} {\frac{\sqrt{16+h}-\sqrt{16}}{h}}= -1/8[/spoiler]

OP, do you know any physics? statics? geomechanics? anything?

I once ask engineer for help on a calculus shadow problem. She was way off. When confronted about it she said " I need to ask my physics proffesor". lol

>>3214504

Oh don't worry. I've seen this attitude plenty of times. I've got an M.S in Aerospace Engineering and the 'blue collar' engineers detest me because they know I understand more yet haven't been working for 1/10th of the time they have. It's alright...you ruined your life but don't blame us.

Oh and I use almost all of the stuff I learned at uni.

>>3214329

>>2011
>>not using wolfram

>>3214393
do this one without wolfram or l-hospitals

>>3214531
>>3214531
typical mathematics student

>HEY GUYS LOOK AT THIS PROBLEM I BET YOU CAN'T SOLVE IT. NO NO YOU CANT USE THAT. NO NO NOT THAT EITHER. HAHA FUCKING STUPID ENGINEERS IM SO SMART I STUDY RINGS AND SHIT.

whereas engineers
>problem
>analysis
>solution
>interpretation
>profit (and lots of it)

>>3214504

You're almost laughable.

>>3214437
>>3214437
>>3214437
>>3214437
>>3214437
>>3214437
>>3214437
>>3214437
>>3214437
this.

>mfw OP probably couldn't even find the maximum bending moment

>>3214554
engineers approximate, scientists solve.

They are still intellectuals, honestly I have never seen an engineer lying bricks.

>>Enjoy not being able to apply 80% of what you learn in college faggots.

Will do OP!!
Enjoy never understanding that there are things beyond application that are far more beautiful than the mind of an engineer could ever comprehend.

>>3214609

>>implying everything around you hasn't been created through the unified efforts of engineers and scientists.

itt: kids actually believe that field engineers do dirty work

>>3214609
>scientists
>solve
0/10

Engineers are good numbers crunchers but they are horrible project managers

>>3214638
>doesn't know about field prostitutes and STDs

>>3214511
just wanted to say thanks for admitting that scientists are the ones who actually do all the intellectual and revolutionary work meanwhile engineers are the peasants who will lay the bricks

thanks for admitting that i can't even realize how hard it must have been for you to do so

no one in this entire thread has completed college, including OP

>>3214672

we both do revolutionary things bro, and im not sure what your obsession is with brick laying, I want to design circuits not walls, and yes i did just admit to being in uni, come at me