General Engineering Introduction/Attitude/quiz

1 Engineers view everyone else as

	perpetrators
	civilians
	clients
	patients
	customers

2 Asking questions of an engineer is:

	Something that should be fun
	Scary, they may react with anger, intense repressed anger.
	Dangerous, they may retaliate by putting ketchup on your wrist pad
	A pleasant experience because they have been trained to be nice.

3 Most engineers describe themselves

	by the technology they work with
	by their role in the project team
	by the people they serve
	by their patents
	as general engineers

4 Most engineers like to talk most about:

	the projects they have been on
	the types of technology they studied as undergrads
	how much more broad and general of an engineer they have become
	the company they work for

5 If you can not understand the question, if you can not figure out where to start, and you like that feeling, then:

	become an engineer
	drop out of engineering
	study more
	go to school

6 If you feel everyone else is smarter/better qualified than you then

	find somewhere you are smarter than everyone
	assume you are the single most odd, worthless engineer in the world
	assume there are many others like you and it is up to you to develop technology for them
	you have successfully made all the worlds problems your own

7 Engineers living with uncertainty, confusion and failure comfort themselves using all the techniques below except which?

	remembering it is the world's problem, the world's uncertainty, the world's confusion
	remembering the engineering challenge is always to learn something new nobody else knows
	self-depreciation, self-doubt, self uncertainty, self failure
	the moment of clarity, the light bulb, metanoia moment is just around the curve

8 Engineering courses are so difficult, you have to choose two from which group of four below?

	blaming racism, sexism, petitions and law suites
	study, socialize, sleep and sports
	searching for tutors, cheating, chanting "I am not good at something , and dropping out
	not liking, not wanting to be like older students, instructors, working engineers, and not wanting to participate in engineering societies

9 One of the big problems in engineering is that the rest of the world doesn't know what engineers do. Why?

	engineers are obnoxious
	engineers don't work with people
	engineers spend most of their time working with other engineers
	engineers are not found working in walmart

10 If you feel someone else has faults:

	forgive them
	recognize your own gifts
	call them normal
	confront them