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Posted: 1/28/2002 8:07:18 PM EDT

Frankly, I've been suprised to see so many nerdy Engineers on this site. [:D] Therefore; this topic was inspired by the alarming number of posted replies from people in the Engineering sciences.

If you will; Nerds with Guns, unite and speak up!

Boomholzer:
Degree: EE
Grad: 1998
From: MSOE
Trade: RF Design Engineer for Wireless Telecom

Posted: 1/28/2002 8:08:40 PM EDT

[#1]

I'm the Engineer every time I play with my trains.

Posted: 1/28/2002 8:10:01 PM EDT

[#2]

Engineers with striped hats who drive choo-choos need not reply [:D]

Posted: 1/28/2002 8:12:05 PM EDT

[#3]

BSCS 1991 George Mason University

Currently working in Army Tactical C4I software and systems integration for a major defense contractor.

Posted: 1/28/2002 8:45:48 PM EDT

[#4]

Morpheus:
Degrees: BSME; MSME
Grad: 1994; 1995
From: Duke; Univ. of Wisconsin
Trade: Automotive Engineer, Goat Herder

Posted: 1/28/2002 8:46:51 PM EDT

[#5]

Geophysical Consulting isn't nerdy enough? [:D]

Posted: 1/28/2002 8:48:25 PM EDT

[#6]

johns hopkins: computer science

fiance dumped me, dropped out of school, joined the Corps

03, then datacom

went to the reserves and finishing school at GSU while working as a Systems engineer for a major ISP

Posted: 1/28/2002 8:51:35 PM EDT

[#7]

Nerds with Guns, i like that. What a scary thought ;)

Spaceman Spiff:
Degree: Mechanical Engineering
Grad: 2003? (let's keep our fingers crossed)
From: University of Arkansas
Trade: Stealing taco bell from my friends when they arent looking

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:03:24 PM EDT

[#8]

BSc Comp Sci '89,
MBA TM '00

Currently engineering manager for 18 SW engineers...

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:10:57 PM EDT

[#9]

... Aerospace Engineering, going on twenty years with Big Blue.

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:16:25 PM EDT

[#10]

I think he said engineers, not former engineers that are now managers!

U of Idaho, BSMetE, 1995.
Trade: Now? - minewater treatment plant operator, water sampler extraordinare, spreadsheet fixer and updater, tinker.

-Just puttin' in my time till this place gets built!

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:21:51 PM EDT

[#11]

Chem E, 1992 Arizona State
Now working as a jack of all trades in the semiconductor industry, the most empirical of them all [:D]

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:25:54 PM EDT

[#12]

I'm an Engineer in traning [:)]
And I am working with the red tape for an AR15 [:D]
working on my Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
I'll know by the end of February if I can get a real AR15. If not then it's FAB10 time for me

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:27:28 PM EDT

[#13]

Network Enginner for Sprint.
Im a WAN guy.:D

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:42:04 PM EDT

[#14]

EE major at the University of San Diego, sophomore.

A fine school with fine wimmenz.

radioman

Posted: 1/28/2002 9:44:43 PM EDT

[#15]

EE in training. I am a senior in HS but at the end of the semester I will have ~40 credits which will be most of my prereqs at A(rizona)SU. I plan to take summer classes until I am out. I think that I will gradulate with a BSE in the fall of 2004 and will probaly get a MS or MSE not to long after that. If all goes according to plan...

How old were you guys when ya finished school?

Posted: 1/28/2002 10:04:14 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
EE in training. I am a senior in HS but at the end of the semester I will have ~40 credits which will be most of my prereqs at A(rizona)SU. I plan to take summer classes until I am out. I think that I will gradulate with a BSE in the fall of 2004 and will probaly get a MS or MSE not to long after that. If all goes according to plan...

How old were you guys when ya finished school?

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I was in the wrong path of graduateing relatively poorly from HS and working as a roofer before I found and earned both the fiancial backing and personal drive for college. At that point of my life I don't think I had the insite you do, Therouge.
That put me at graduating more than a few years older than you will. Stick to your guns. Enjoy the trip, work in a degree related field through college & gain some experience through work and study, dont get married in the process :),.........
Age is no substitute for experience.

Posted: 1/28/2002 10:06:30 PM EDT

[#17]

Jesus Pogo,

I am no engineer, but I got out of Ideehow in '95 with a BS in Forestry. Small world.

Posted: 1/28/2002 10:12:44 PM EDT

[#18]

TurOk:
Degree: Undergrad BSME
Grad: Junior
From: Walla Walla College
Trade: Student

Posted: 1/29/2002 4:21:03 AM EDT

[#19]

DrMark:
Degrees: Mechanical Engineering (BS), Engineering Mechanics (MS, PhD)
Grads: 1990, 1992, 1998
Trade: Aerospace Engineer somewhere in the Department of Defense

Posted: 1/29/2002 4:57:31 AM EDT

[#20]

Degree: BS Manufacturing Engineering
From: California Polytechnical University Pomona
Grad: 1980
Trade: Manufacturing Engineer in aerospace and thinking seriously of a career change.

Posted: 1/29/2002 5:04:12 AM EDT

[#21]

B.S. Geological Engineering
1992
University of Missouri Rolla
Project Manager for Environemtnal Consulting Firm

Posted: 1/29/2002 5:05:25 AM EDT

[#22]

What... You think you're better than me???

[img]http://members.tripod.com/~Taxier/pow.jpg[/img]

[i]"Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction . . . There never has been a choice for me."[/i]

Posted: 1/29/2002 5:49:51 AM EDT

[#23]

Going to University of Washington or the Air Force Academy next year for Astronautic engineering. So I am a junior geek with guns [:D]

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:09:54 AM EDT

[#24]

BS Engineering Technology (computer science) from U. So. Fl. in '86. i write code. i tell computers what to do. they listen better than people, but they're so durn literal!

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:18:37 AM EDT

[#25]

Geological Engineer Montana Tech
"If you can't grow it,you have to mine it!"

SRM

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:25:06 AM EDT

[#26]

Mace:
Working on a ME degree at University of Florida. I'll probably graduate in '03 or so. Ahh, it's nice and warm out too...
No guns yet, but I'm taking the NRA saftey class this weekend. Then I turn 21 in a couple more weeks. [8D]

And in general, when I'm not fixing something, I'm trying to break something else. All my fellow engineer/nerds know how it is.

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:27:11 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
I'm the Engineer every time I play with my trains.

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Yep, me too. But does this count ?

[:D]

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:37:02 AM EDT

[#28]

Not many actual engineers, but I know a lot of tech support dorks with guns.

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:40:04 AM EDT

[#29]

Mechanical Design Engineering

Product Designer / Limousines

[url]www.accubuilt.com[/url]

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:43:20 AM EDT

[#30]

BMe Georgia Tech '81

NASA Mechanical Design Lead Engineer
Kennedy Space Center, FL

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:44:52 AM EDT

[#31]

Packaging Engineer. Michigan State Univ 1988

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:46:22 AM EDT

[#32]

Halfcocked PE:
Degree: BSEE
Grad: 1982
From: Michigan Tech
Trade: Manager of Operations for a Municipal Power Co.

Therouge,

I was 26 when I graduated. 3 years in the service with Uncle Sam before I started and then 5 years to get through college. Had to do 1 year of high school over after 3 in the service. Seems I forgot a lot of stuff. I was asked "Did you really graduate from high school?". I did do really well on the trig portion though. I was a surveyor in the Army (82C20).

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:52:46 AM EDT

[#33]

BSCS & MSEE
CodeMonkey - Embedded Systems and fluffy GUI code.

Posted: 1/29/2002 6:57:30 AM EDT

[#34]

(Quantum)Mechanical Engineer...
So far, I've stayed out of aerospace but have been heavy in petrochem and petro E&P.

Grad in 1996 von UT....

Posted: 1/29/2002 7:31:38 AM EDT

[#35]

Comp1911
Degree: BSME
Grad From: U of North Dakota Dec. 1999, MN EIT 2000
Trade: Mechanical maintenance engineer for UPM-Kymmene's Blandin Paper in Minnesota.

[url]http://w3.upm-kymmene.com/[/url]

I keep 2 older, smaller and slower paper machine lines running.

Posted: 1/29/2002 8:13:32 AM EDT

[#36]

BS ChemE UC Berkeley 85
MS ChemE Cal State San Jose 89

Currently employed breaking stuff in the semiconductor industry.

Posted: 1/29/2002 8:30:40 AM EDT

[#37]

Working on my CEE degree here at the wonderful Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. GO HOKIES!!!

Posted: 1/29/2002 9:04:00 AM EDT

[#38]

AR-15: Invented by a nerd engineer in Southern California (Mr. Stoner)

Ar-15: Used by a nerd engineer in Southern California (ME!)

BSME: Cal Poly Pomona '97

Posted: 1/29/2002 9:23:15 AM EDT

[#39]

Mecheng (Mechanical Engineer)
Degree: BSME
Grad: 1976
From: University of Mo. - Rolla
Trade: Manager of Product Development
Creator of the infamous AR-15 lower Pro/E solid model and 2D spinoff.

Posted: 1/29/2002 9:24:12 AM EDT

[#40]

BS in EE from Louisiana Tech Univ. 1996
MS in EE from North Carolina State Univ. 1998
Ph.D. in EE from North Carolina State Univ. Dec. 02.

Posted: 1/29/2002 9:32:57 AM EDT

[#41]

I'm not edumacated, but I'm a computer geek. Been stuck in the grocery industry for years. I lead a team of database, intranet & networking developers to provide analytical services from a great big ol' data warehouse that I created.

Got a lot of neat computer toys at work, but I've got too much computin' and not enough shootin' going on.

Posted: 1/29/2002 9:38:29 AM EDT

[#42]

Degree: B.S. Math, B.S. Civil Engineering
Grad: 1989, 1994
From: Doane College, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
Trade: Structural Engineer w/ Architecture Firm

I want to work at an engineering firm. Help.

Posted: 1/29/2002 9:40:59 AM EDT

[#43]

DonS

degree: MS EE

currently unemployed.

Posted: 1/29/2002 9:47:50 AM EDT

[#44]

Ga Tech EE 1989.
Proud owner of 6 AR-15s.
Master Highpower shooter.
Smokin' blues & blues-rock guitarist.
Deer hunter, fisherman.
World-traveled and culturally adventurous.
Talented chef.

Nerd? Only when I'm being paid to be one. Otherwise I'm pretty cool, if you don't mind me saying so myself! [8D]

Posted: 1/29/2002 10:05:22 AM EDT

[#45]

BSEE, U.S. Naval Academy '89
MBA, The Lake Forest Graduate School of Management '01

Currently work as Director of a Technical Services department in the healthcare industry.

Posted: 1/29/2002 10:15:44 AM EDT

[#46]

Degree: BS Physics, MS Sports Management
Grad: 1995, 1997
From: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana
Trade: Application Engineer for Electromagnetic simulation software company.

VectorJoe

Posted: 1/29/2002 11:25:04 AM EDT

[#47]

starting a ME BS in the fall, anyone know if RIT, VPI, UMAINE, UNH, or Clarkson have gun clubs?
I know RPI does

Posted: 1/29/2002 12:04:42 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
BS Engineering Technology (computer science) from U. So. Fl. in '86. i write code. i tell computers what to do. they listen better than people, but they're so durn literal!

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Same school, same degree, same year! Did you have your Grad ceremony at the St. Pete campus, or the main one in Tampa? Send me an e-mail at [email protected]... like to hear from you.
BTW, still write code (none of what I learned then); also act as DBA, network admin, and hardware support.

Posted: 1/29/2002 12:13:51 PM EDT

[#49]

Degree: Industrial Engineering - All you other guys used to call us Imaginary Engineers.
School: Georgia Tech
Occupation: Management Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers

First and only AR is a pre-ban Colt Sporter Match HBAR. Looking to grow my collection though.

Posted: 1/29/2002 12:22:52 PM EDT

[#50]

BSEE Virgina Tech 1973

Working DoD projects at Lockheed Martin.

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