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What school did you graduate from? This is great.
by jpm_sd 4y ago
What school did you graduate from? This is great.
- rbanffy 4y agoIt's called FEI, which translates to College of Industrial Engineering. It's in Brazil, on a (mostly industrial, and uncannily rainy) city called São Bernardo do Campo.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoCanadian engineering schools do a ceremony and oath designed by Rudyard Kipling. It has some serious gravitas and leaves a real impression on young minds. The Kipling oath isn't phrased that way so it probably wasn't a Canadian school, but it does have a similar intent.
- brenainn 4y agoThey get cool rings as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring I'm not Canadian, but I took some engineering classes and these oaths and rings were brought up when discussing ethics. Funnily enough we were told they were forged from the material of a collapsed bridge as a reminder to not build shitty bridges, but according to the article that's a myth.
- rbanffy 4y agoBefore moving to Ireland, Canada was our #1 option. I started some research on what would I need to have my Brazilian degree validated so I could take the oath and be accepted into the EIC.
- roter 4y agoRitual of the Calling of an Engineer [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_Engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_En...