Engineering Joke

ariesathena
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:00:57 +0000

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is
half- empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Not exactly. Interchangeable parts are good - you might have the same size glass for a different purpose (that needs to be full) somewhere else in the line, so you use two of the same-sized glasses. That way, they are easier to replace.

A mathematician, a physicist, and a chemical engineer were asked to measure the volume of a red rubber ball.
The mathematican measured the diameter, halved it to get the radius, and used the volume = 4/3pir^3 equation.
The physicist measured out some water, placed the ball in the water, and measured the displacement.
The chemical engineer looked up the model and serial number in his red-rubber ball table.