Differences in education
May 30th, 2007
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We electrical engineers are pragmatists.
Posted in chemistry, engineering, explosions, stick figures
April 1st, 2008 at 9:25 pm
yeah, electrical engineers know nothing about anions, resonance, or charges
April 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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April 1st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
electical enginers understand charges
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
im an electrical engineer. that was sarcasm.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
that pretty much sums it up for me all i know is that fires are fun…
April 8th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Just stumbled onto this…. Gee, this comic looks strangely familiar. Sort of like XKCD.
Not ripped off, no… I’m not implying that. Simply emulated. Flattered perhaps?
-Bub
April 9th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Funny story: The top panel really is chemistry for chemical engineers, it left off the important part, the part where thats actually a valid resonance structure.
Love,
A Chemistry Major
April 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Bitches dont know ’bout benzylic acidity!
April 10th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
“im an electrical engineer. that was sarcasm.” — well said JD
April 10th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Looks like XKCD? Uhh it’s stick figures dude.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
So, every stick figure comic must be a rip off or emulation of XKCD, because it takes so much creativity to draw stick figures with witty dialog that no two people could ever possibly create something like that independently of one another. Right.
April 12th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I’m also an electrical engineer. This is partially true. My undergraduate studies barely received much in the way particle interactions (i.e. anion and resonance) however electrical engineers do greatly understand and especially how to manipulate charges. I love digs like this though. 🙂
April 12th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Elect B-Eng over here
good cartoon
personally though, chems good and all but as an elect. I don’t care to go into detail about the chem subject… in fact the cartoon sums up most of my feelings pretty well. Although the physics behind the chems not bad.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:12 am
electromagnetics beeeatch!
April 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am
both tend to rely on sub-atomic particle distribution
April 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hahahaha!
My boyfriend is an Elec. Engineer. He’ll get a kick out of this one. Perhaps this is why he’s reluctant to help me with my chemistry
April 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
that should be mechanical engineers… thats me…. and sodium + water does go boom….
April 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Engineers/Schmengineers.
A real chemist would skip sodium and go right for the potassium.
April 19th, 2008 at 2:14 am
electrical engineering SUCKS !
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Cesium, my friends. Cesium.
(Or Rubidium if you’re wimpy and want to keep all of your limbs intact.)
-Old School Chemical Engineer
April 26th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
@Jeff: Don’t you have to pass some sort of test to get a permit to even get either Rubidium or Cesium?
May 6th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Notice all the male posts are about the science or competitive or both. The one girl mentions her relationship.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Chemistry for CJ majors:
Sodium + Water = Possible Homicide.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
lol that is almost so true its sad,not completely true though, it should be “today we are going to blow things up.”
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Mechanical Engineers: Tiny things in water + tiny things in water = boom.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
You could say the same thing about civils. We’re a simple people, we just stick something in the ground, surround it with concrete, and pray to God that it doesn’t fall over.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:34 am
@Jeff: Go on, be a real man. Try and get your hands on some Francium. It’s the single rarest element on Earth, so good luck. But if you want something to put in water and make it go BOOM!!…well go for it.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
and so…? wasn’t something gonna burn?
great humour, sorry the civils made it boring…but kuddos on the guy asking for something to blow up.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:37 am
You’ve actually drawn methylcyclohexane, not benzene. Add a few more bonds to the ring to make it benzene.
– Nitpicky Chemist
PS: My roommate was an electrical engineer. He also took showers that flooded the whole bathroom. I wish I had some sodium or potassium handy….
October 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I’m an EET Major and we fully understand charges and the fundamentals of electricity and chemistry. I however, think that scientists, especially chemists and physicists take simple well known equations and concepts and complicate them, for what reason I do not know.
November 17th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Whats a charge?
-Roy, 4th year electrical engineering student
P.S. Fire hell yes!
November 20th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Haha, EE here and I despise chemistry. Not chemistry in general, but engineering chemistry like steady state devices and doping and acceptor nonsense… rather just make a capacitor explode.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
only thing you have in common is your all virgins right? right?
January 17th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
After graduating as an EE with $100,000 in debt… I think I’ve finally found the reason I chose this career.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:22 am
EEs rock!!!!
As the Chemical dudes to derive maxwells equations from fundamentals…
February 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Here’s to the B I got in Chem115 – glad I never have to take a chemistry again for the rest of my life.
EE = win.
May 31st, 2009 at 1:08 pm
a good electrical engineering couldn’t care less about chemistry
June 29th, 2009 at 1:27 am
we Electrical Engineers don’t know about charges,but they play with chargers..
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November 12th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Of course we know about anions.They are things like cations.
January 25th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
With my doctorate in EE and my tens of thousands of dollars in debt. I can successfully say that boom is the only part that matters
March 15th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Shakeel is right, not valid resonance forms, or a valid arrow IF talking about resonance forms, nor is it a valid representation of an aromatic ring. Funny comic, but epic chemistry fail.
May 15th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Point 1: Well, this may explain why my chemistry partners were scared of me.
Then again, that may have been something to do with incorporating hand sanitizer as an fuel source into one of the labs 😛
Point 2: Chemistry is a problem. Why? Everything is backwards. Anion? oops thats the other side.
Love,
EE