<p>what the weirdest engineering major program you’ve heard of?</p>
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<p>Sandwich Engineering (for females).</p>
<p>^^^ I have a cleavage-tastic tank top that says “I should be in the kitchen”. My husband implores me not to wear it in public because he’s concerned that someone might think he actually bought it for me… so I wear it to bed.</p>
<p>Hmm… weirdest engineering major… I think geotechnical is pretty weird. Studying soil, taking small samples and drawing sweeping conclusions using methods developed in the sixties by pretty much one guy-- Karl Terzaghi (who is, yes, my cat’s namesake)… It’s superbly weird. It’s far more of an art than a science. Divining dirt. </p>
<p>That, and the fact that they study it COMPLETELY differently in France than they do anywhere else. Both are completely valid, but since it’s so empirically-based, the French just went off and developed their own empirical methods and disregarded everything Terzaghi did. </p>
<p>It’s really weird. Cool, but weird.</p>
<p>didn’t Karl von Terzaghi propose soil mechanics?</p>
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<p>Karl Terzaghi basically developed the field of soil mechanics, yes.</p>
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<p>Mechanical engineering is pretty darned weird; It’s voodoo I tells ya! ;-)</p>
<p>Theatrical engineering. It was mentioned on this board. I think Las Vegas, London, and Broadway are the only two places in the world where you might actually get hired with that degree.</p>
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<p>Counting fail.</p>
<p>And yeah I remember that thread. It was offered by UNLV or something like that. Pretty ridiculous.</p>
<p>Fire Protection Engineering at University of Maryland or Entertanment Engineerng at UNLV</p>
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<p>"Counting fail.</p>
<p>And yeah I remember that thread. It was offered by UNLV or something like that. Pretty ridiculous."</p>
<p>I am deeply ashamed of my counting fail. I wrote Las Vegas and New York, finished the sentence, then decided to add London without understanding the full ramifications of what I was doing to the logic of that sentence. But on the plus side, I’ve now figured out what was wrong with my graphing calculator for the past year–I was holding it upside down.</p>
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<p>my school has something called Undesignated Engineering and System Control Engineering</p>
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<p>haha lol “theatrical engineering”…</p>
<p>I am pretty sure one of my moms coworkers son is studying ‘Sound Engineering’.</p>
<p>^haha everyone i know seems to know a sound engineer</p>
<p>So what is “theatrical engineering”? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I’ve heard of fire protection engineering too. For one of the consulting positions I saw posted, they required a PhD degree in fire protection engineering.</p>
<p>Have you heard of sex engineering?
That is so weird.</p>
<p>Well there isn’t any weird engineering. They sound weird because they are so technical. I meant they literally specialized in one area. They could be cultural too. Moreover, nations outside USA sub-divides the traditional engineerings that we have in USA, and make them into its own engineering program.</p>
<p>Let’s limit this thread to genuine engineering majors, not degrees with “engineering” added to the name to sell it. If you didn’t take multivariable calculus it ain’t engineering!</p>
<p>The Entertainment Engineering at UNLV does require all the math and physics plus statics and dynamics that any “legit” engineering program does. The difference is they focus on applications of engineering to theater.</p>
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<p>Any “legit” engineering program requires FAR more than statics/dynamics and physics. FAR more.</p>
<p>^IE at UMich doesn’t, and it’s ranked #2 for IE. </p>
<p>Given, I guess that argument that IE isn’t actually engineering is still there.</p>
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