Rant: ERTW vs. ESTW

[frankystein12]

In a sense, engineers do indeed rule the world. Look around you, everything that is not natural (i.e. everything) has been made by engineers.

[parkourtml]

Engineering "rules" the world.

I interpret it as rules refering to the laws of science that engineers are applying to everyday life. We the engineers, create a world in which things are ruled by our understanding of engineering.

ESTW seems like we're bending over to what the world wants, not what it needs!

So yes, engineers do rule the world! and hey, it makes faculty rivalry great.

ERTW!

[umgryba]

Trevor, I think you may have spent a little too much time in a granola crunching EWB talk session on what you'd like to change in the world around you.

Engineering as we know it has it's roots in protecting the public's interest and ensuring that human activities respect the laws of the land. Sounds a lot like the job description of a responsible ruler to me.

If you dislike ERTW, perhaps you might modify the acronym to Eager and Ready To Work..... and scrap the servitude bologna.

[lilmo90]

We engineers are Gods. We literally created this world.

[Julian3190]

meh ERTW is better. More badass.

[stevz0r]

I was going to say something about this whole thing but the comments seem to sum it up pretty well.

ERTW.

[inigomontoya6667]

1) Engineers don't steal the format from Rick Mercer's rants.

2) Could someone engineer this poor bastard a steadycam?

[cnmarine2006]

fuck off mate. i serve no one.

i get to work when i want. and leave when i want.

i dont have to clock in clock out because i'm NOT serving anyone. i don't have to work around other people's schedule like other professions.

ERTW.

[charliegodsoe]

First and foremost, I don't have that cousin who has ever done that...

secondly who cares?

thirdly, its just a fun thing we say. Did you guys cheer on Canada in the olympics? Saying , "Who's game is this?".

fourthly, I got into engineering to solve problems and make money. And that's pretty much how it got started too. Don't paint an altruistic picture unnecessarily.

fifthly I would have held more stock in what you were saying if you didn't talk with a lisp. haha jk'ing.

[JoeGaudet1]

I think this misses the point, ERTW is just a silly thing people say in school to promote 'esprit de corp'. It's about having a fun rivalry between faculties to make university more fun.

No one honestly takes this stuff off campus.

Perhaps you are also against cheering for sports teams?

EWB does a lot of good, though they could stand to have more actual engineers involved, but I think you've missed it here, this isn't a real issue.

[priestpilot]

Glad you put on your ring at the end. I'm getting mine in 18 days!

[jawnsy]

As an engineering student, I think this is a mostly harmless statement. Neither myself nor most of my classmates actually think we rule the world -- though there are some (as there always are) who are dense enough to think that they actually know anything. We scrawl it everywhere, but it's not like we actually wear a cape and claim to be a hero (nor would we actually believe it if we did).

[jawnsy]

I do think Engineers, as humans, should strive to rule -- as in dominate, control -- the world. I mean, humanity is generally urbanized rather than nomadic, which seems like a desire to cultivate the world, and to rule it. It is a desire that has existed since the earliest civilizations.

[jawnsy]

I understand where this guy is coming from, but it seems like the usual EWB pretentiousness... I don't think people who scrawl "SSRTW" (Social Sciences Rule the World) or "SRTW" (Science..) really believe that their fields are the be-all and end-all. Although, I will admit that there is a lot of "oh, they're not REAL science, they're no use" in Engineering -- but this just seems like the product of immaturity, not field of study.

[GLeNss]

yeah its only fun, jeez didnt think someone wud rant about it xD

I guess engineers are put higher than most because once your electricity goes out, people realise their value. But at the same time no one should be up their own ass.

[ubercaffeine]

ERTW

[kamimaza]

Nice try, but ESTW = FAIL. ERTW!

[zomremembershisname]

ESTW

Is LISS the French translation?  Les Ingenieurs Servir Societe....