DMN: SMU Re-Names School of Engineering

by PK » Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:46 pm

Alaric wrote:maybe they can get the Calatrava bridges to work

Ah yes...the architects draw the pretty pictures, but it is the engineers that make the pretty pictures standup and work.

by PK » Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:52 pm

jtstang wrote:I think they ought to call the the jtstang/PK Engineering School. We are the two most famous graduates on ponyfans.com, which ought to be the criteria for all future naming of SMU things.

A nice thought jtstang, but I suspect that will only happen when you and I each pony up 20 million...which means don't hold your breath. I know that isn't a problem for you as an attorney on the rise jt, but I'm just an old engineer with a declining 401K. :wink:

by **mrydel** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:09 pm

Alaric wrote:maybe they can get the Calatrava bridges to work

What about London Bridges? They have been falling down since I was a baby.

by PK » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:52 pm

mrydel wrote:
Alaric wrote:maybe they can get the Calatrava bridges to work

What about London Bridges? They have been falling down since I was a baby.

Either you aren't very old or (more likely) all the London bridges are gone.l

by **MrMustang1965** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:06 am

Alaric wrote:maybe they can get the Calatrava bridges to work

Or Sarah Palin's 'Bridge to Nowhere'.

by **mrydel** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:30 am

PK wrote:
mrydel wrote:
Alaric wrote:maybe they can get the Calatrava bridges to work

What about London Bridges? They have been falling down since I was a baby.
Either you aren't very old or (more likely) all the London bridges are gone.l

So obviously it would take a good engineer to get them working.

Actually London Bridge was moved somewhere in the US west last I heard. Has it been destroyed since then?

by **HB Pony Dad** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:26 am

mrydel wrote:
PK wrote:
mrydel wrote:
Alaric wrote:maybe they can get the Calatrava bridges to work

What about London Bridges? They have been falling down since I was a baby.
Either you aren't very old or (more likely) all the London bridges are gone.l

So obviously it would take a good engineer to get them working.

Actually London Bridge was moved somewhere in the US west last I heard. Has it been destroyed since then?

London Bridge is in Arizona at the Colorado River.

It is spectacularly unimpressive!

Everyone thinks the Tower Bridge in London is London Bridge-NOT!

by **jtstang** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:29 am

by **ThadFilms** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:21 pm

by **ThadFilms** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:25 pm

I still can't tell you how thrilled I am about the Skunk Works lab. That is so cool. Yes I know, it's military - for those of you who have a problem with such things colluding with education - but seriously, that is the cutting edge of Lockheed Martin's aeronautics. Awesome.

Surprising, really, because no other university has a Skunk Works lab... and there is NO OTHER lab than the original in Cali. Doubly surprising, because when I think SMU engineering, I just have never thought 'aerospace'/'aeronautics'. Fantastic.

by **smupony94** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:39 pm

ThadFilms wrote:

That was actually playing on Channel 4 this morning since Time Warner yanked NBC last week

by **ThadFilms** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:58 pm

smupony94 wrote:
ThadFilms wrote:

That was actually playing on Channel 4 this morning since Time Warner yanked NBC last week

Yeah, I channel surfed pass it last Sunday.

by **couch 'em** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:53 am

ThadFilms wrote:Yes I know, it's military - for those of you who have a problem with such things colluding with education -

Fear not, SMU is not in Austin or California.

Doubly surprising, because when I think SMU engineering, I just have never thought 'aerospace'/'aeronautics'. Fantastic.

Maybe this means an aeronautical engineering major is in the works.

by **jtstang** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:09 am

ThadFilms wrote:Doubly surprising, because when I think SMU engineering, I just have never thought 'aerospace'/'aeronautics'. Fantastic.

Before the law school gig, I took my ME degree to Bell Helicopter and Boeing in Seattle for 4 years. Those guys to a fair amount of aerospace work. There's a fair amount of cross-over in those disciplines.

by **ThadFilms** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:07 am

jtstang wrote:
ThadFilms wrote:Doubly surprising, because when I think SMU engineering, I just have never thought 'aerospace'/'aeronautics'. Fantastic.

Before the law school gig, I took my ME degree to Bell Helicopter and Boeing in Seattle for 4 years. Those guys to a fair amount of aerospace work. There's a fair amount of cross-over in those disciplines.

Never knew that. Good to know....

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