> If you're hiring an engineer and he's not familiar with the Bernoulli equation What discipline are you hiring, and what do you define as "familiar with"? I

> If you're hiring an engineer and he's not familiar with the Bernoulli equation What discipline are you hiring, and what do you define as "familiar with"? If I am hiring an electrical engineer, I expect them all to know what Maxwell's equations are and what they represent. I would only expect an analog, mixed-signal, or power systems engineer to know how to apply them. Even then I would expect them to look up the equations. Engineering has been standing on a foundation of reference books for as long as the discipline has existed. Engineers are expected to know what the principles are and how to apply them. They aren't expected to do all this from memory. The PE exam is a mostly open book test for that reason.