What's wrong with this image?

[tom66]

Header for my University EEng school web page.

[Psi]

All i can say is WTF

[amyk]

I wish my soldering iron had a grip-to-tip distance that small...

[Chet T16]

Oh dear, thats super cringeworthy

[quarks]

Is this a real meant picture or just a joke with a test probe?
 

[Psi]

Its a stock photo available for purchase/use

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-24479542/stock-photo-view-of-a-circuit-board-being-repaired.html?src=p-41652244-4

[HackedFridgeMagnet]

Lol
After looking at the tip of my soldering iron all day, I've come to realise that soldering irons don't look like that.

[Mr Smiley]

So that's how you remove the excess wire from a through hole resistor 

Hold it down with the tip or your fluke multimeter probe and waggle the lead till it falls off.

Only the Pro's could know what to do and how to do it properly. 

Just tried it and it isn't actually that good an idea, oh just realized, i was using the red handled probe 

Derrr stupid me 

 

[jucole]

lol, it's those dumb graphic designers that give the real Artists a bad name! ;-)

The picture is ok;  just badly used;  maybe you might use a "correct" or "in-correct" like..

[Psi]

lol

[Mr Smiley]

Arrrrr,

Go it 

There measuring the HIGH VOLTAGE Exponential discharge through the finger of a new apprentice 

To demonstrate 'These are the practical experiments you will be doing in your first and subsequent years'

 

[Joules]

I think it highlights, join our course and go out on the piss at dinner time, then do your practical in the afternoon....  If you can stay awake.

[jucole]

If you were a pro photographer doing a series of tech stock shots to sell to an image library;  you'd use as many different conceptual angles as you could think of.

Maybe a smart suited boss type character lent over a desk with a PCB wedged between his arse cheeks!   then a caption "Tired of your old job?  then come to Joe's EEngineering Recruitment"

:-)

[airiclenz]

Haha - these things are happening when photographers just mass-produce some stock images without having any background knowledge of the topic they want to cover.... Like "Looks like electronics stuff... Looks fine".

[G7PSK]

What to do when you have mislaid your soldering iron, Heat the meter probe with a lighter and apply to part being soldered with the added benefit of joint continuity testing carried out at the same time. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif

[kfitch42]

Its one thing to blame the photog for trying to produce stock photos without background knowledge.

But, you would assume(hope?) SOMEONE in the EE department actually looked at/approved the web site... then again there are plenty posts here about professors who don't know which end of the soldering iron to hold ... maybe because they can't even identify a soldering iron.

And (according to google) the image has been used in other places too:
invention-ic.com
www.geminikits.com

[Bored@Work]

Header for my University EEng school web page.

Name and shame.

[kfitch42]

Name and shame.

Click on the OP's profile

[tom66]

As far as universities go... what you will find is that most of them have a complete disconnect between the "lower" faculty (lecturers etc.) and the "upper" faculty (the dean and board, who think "circuits lol that looks good!") And then you've got the poor, understaffed IT department, whose job it is to knock up a website for EEng. They'll Google "Electronics repair stock photo" and get this page, and you can see a very similar image there. Why they couldn't send a guy down with a camera is beyond me; it'd take ten minutes.

So the lecturers probably laugh every time they see that but they're completely powerless.

[dimlow]

Another One

[Psi]

Whats wrong with that one?

[AlfBaz]

Whats wrong with that one?

evil south paw!

[ftransform]

this is what happens when you smoke fat blunts at work..

oh shit, the supervisor is coming, I better look busy.

This is like that picture of the guy measuring a solar panel using a battery charge indicator.

[nitro2k01]

What's wrong with you people? It's obviously a left-handed soldering iron. 

[amyk]

What to do when you have mislaid your soldering iron, Heat the meter probe with a lighter and apply to part being soldered with the added benefit of joint continuity testing carried out at the same time. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif

Self-soldering test probes would've come in handy a few times in the past...