Top 25 Engineer’s Terms and Expressions

• #25 Reply
  Posted by VK5RC on 14 Feb, 2015 11:22
• 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.
• #26 Reply
  Posted by KarlosVandango on 14 Feb, 2015 13:11
• "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"
  
  
  
• #27 Reply
  Posted by GreyWoolfe on 15 Feb, 2015 17:02
• Quote from: VK5RC on 14 Feb, 2015 11:22

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

  
  Don't for get FUBAR Baker Easy.  The BE is by experts.
• #28 Reply
  Posted by German_EE on 15 Feb, 2015 20:36
• Well, I heard that SNAFU was 'Situation Normal - All Fouled Up', but one word there is open to some interpretation. 
• #29 Reply
  Posted by miguelvp on 16 Feb, 2015 04:33
• Quote from: German_EE on 15 Feb, 2015 20:36

  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
  
• #30 Reply
  Posted by sunnyhighway on 16 Feb, 2015 05:51
• Quote from: miguelvp on 16 Feb, 2015 04:33

  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.
• #31 Reply
  Posted by dh6kq on 16 Feb, 2015 08:18
• Quote from: luky315 on 13 Feb, 2015 07:35

  "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”
• #32 Reply
  Posted by dh6kq on 16 Feb, 2015 08:29
• Quote from: tautech on 13 Feb, 2015 08:15

  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
• #33 Reply
  Posted by tautech on 16 Feb, 2015 08:34
• Quote from: dh6kq on 16 Feb, 2015 08:29

  Quote from: tautech on 13 Feb, 2015 08:15

  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.