Top 25 Engineer’s Terms and Expressions

[VK5RC]

Term; Extensively tested       Meaning; The manager took it home to the kids

Term; Destructively tested     Meaning; The mangers kids broke it!


The term SNAFU'd sounds so much more polite in the abbreviation.

[KarlosVandango]

"It's currently Work In Progress at the moment"... meaning various things:

Haven't got a clue,
It's just working leave it alone,
Hopefully all the excitement will die down until the next "emergency" and it will be all forgotten about,
Absolutely no interest in taking it any further, hopefully soon to be forgotten about
Opps, forgot about that...

"Currently monitoring..."
See above

This thread is brilliant.. I've heard almost all of these "Buzz phases"

[GreyWoolfe]

The term SNAFU'd sounds so much more polite in the abbreviation.

Don't for get FUBAR Baker Easy.  The BE is by experts.

[German_EE]

Well, I heard that SNAFU was 'Situation Normal - All Fouled Up', but one word there is open to some interpretation. 

[miguelvp]

Well, I heard that SNAFU was 'Situation Normal - All Fouled Up', but one word there is open to some interpretation. 

So then FUBAR should be 'Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition' I guess I'll adopt the non swear word acronym from now on

[sunnyhighway]

So then FUBAR should be 'Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition'

Not be be mistaken with the identically pronounced FOOBAR, which is often used in programming to explain a concept.

[dh6kq]

"Senior Researcher"
= someone who is able to start MATLAB

"Automation Specialist"
= someone able to start LabVIEW

"Project Leader"
= knows persons which can start "MATLAB", "LabVIEW" and maybe "Altium Designer"

“Program Manager”
= knows persons which have heard about live humans, knowing how to start “MiniTab”

[dh6kq]

Term
Torque Setting

Definition
Wind it up 'till it comes easy, then back it off 1/2 a turn.

Follow-up: ...finally cover that whole junk with a tamper proof seal, to make it look really important

[tautech]

Term
Torque Setting

Definition
Wind it up 'till it comes easy, then back it off 1/2 a turn.

Follow-up: ...finally cover that whole junk with a tamper proof seal, to make it look really important

There's an alternative torque spec:

Wind it up 'till it smokes, then back it off 1/2 a turn.

Those that have stripped big nuts and bolts will know how hot they can get.