Electrical Engineers vs Computer Engineers: The Circuit Phobia

Electrical engineering Computer engineering Circuits Kirchhoff Engineering rivalry Spongebob Stem Academic rivalry

Engineering Academia Tech

1 day ago 3,143 views 0 shares

Electrical Engineers vs Computer Engineers: The Circuit Phobia

electrical-engineering-memes, computer-engineering-memes, circuits-memes, kirchhoff-memes, engineering-rivalry-memes | ScienceHumor.io

The eternal rivalry between Electrical Engineers and Computer Engineers captured in SpongeBob format! Poor Squidward (the Computer Engineer) can't handle being near Patrick (the Electrical Engineer) because—gasp—he's terrified of actual circuits! And when SpongeBob drops "Kirchhoff's Laws" into the conversation? Total meltdown! It's like watching someone who only codes in Python suddenly confronted with having to build an actual physical device. The horror! 🔌⚡ Spoiler alert: most CompE degrees still require circuit analysis, but that doesn't stop the interdepartmental trash talk!

More Like This

Before It Was Cool...

Engineering Physics Science Tech

5 days ago 4.9K views 0 shares

Before It Was Cool...

Nikola Tesla casually plugged into a wall outlet before rock bands were even a concept. The electrical pioneer was probably just enjoying some alternating current/direct current through those primitive earbuds while the rest of humanity was still arguing about which electrical standard would win. When you've invented wireless transmission, you get to listen to music that won't exist for another century. That's just how temporal electrical engineering works.

Bonding Through Mutual Confusion

Engineering Physics Academia

14 days ago 9.6K views 0 shares

Bonding Through Mutual Confusion

Finding common ground in confusion! Dynamics—that terrifying realm where Newton's laws meet calculus in a dark alley and beat up your brain. Even engineering students break into cold sweats when forces start moving. It's that subject where professors write equations, students nod knowingly, and absolutely nobody has any idea what's happening. The universal language of engineering students isn't math—it's the shared trauma of dynamics homework!

How Mech Es And Aeros See Civies

Engineering Physics Science Academia

16 days ago 13.6K views 0 shares

How Mech Es And Aeros See Civies

The engineering hierarchy in its natural habitat. Mechanical and aerospace engineers pretending civil engineers don't exist, while simultaneously terrorizing them with Newton's Second Law. F=ma≠0 is apparently the engineering equivalent of showing a horror movie to a toddler. Meanwhile, civil engineers are just trying to build bridges without getting bullied about their fear of moving objects. Classic STEM food chain dynamics.

Engineers And Their Glorious Approximations

Engineering Math Physics

9 days ago 7.2K views 0 shares

Engineers And Their Glorious Approximations

Engineers don't need an invitation to start approximating EVERYTHING! That calculator, those scribbled equations, and the iconic hard hat are basically an engineer's natural habitat. The beauty of engineering is making complex problems solvable by saying "close enough" to the math gods! Next time your engineer friend says "approximately," just know they've probably replaced π with 3 and ignored air resistance to make their life easier. It's not laziness—it's efficiency!

When Your Professor Declares Your Textbook Heresy

Engineering Academia Physics Science

8 days ago 5.4K views 0 shares

When Your Professor Declares Your Textbook Heresy

The textbook says laminar flow, the professor says turbulent flow, and suddenly you're Tom the cat reading the newspaper in disbelief. Nothing like spending $200 on a textbook only to have your professor declare it's full of lies. That moment when you realize science isn't actually settled and those equations you memorized might be—gasp—simplified models! Next thing you know, they'll tell us the frictionless surfaces in physics problems aren't real either. The betrayal!

Engineers Caught Between Two Mathematical Worlds

Engineering Math Physics Academia Science

12 days ago 6.5K views 0 shares

Engineers Caught Between Two Mathematical Worlds

Engineers staring at math and physics memes with that perfect mix of terror and fascination is the most accurate representation of engineering education ever created. We spend four years pretending to understand both subjects while secretly Googling "how to convert units" for the 47th time. The face says it all—"I should understand this, but also, what fresh hell is this equation?" Engineering: where you learn just enough of everything to be perpetually confused by specialist memes from both disciplines!