My amazing husband Justin just got his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's top-ranked Kenan-Flagler Business School, but he'll always be a nerd... er... engineer at heart. I love it, as he and most of his engineering buddies have some pretty endearing qualities.
One of my favorite examples of this came as we were putting our house in Dallas on the market just before moving to North Carolina. The previous owner had done a pretty shotty wiring job on our patio lighting, and long story short, it ended up shorting out some of our other lighting. Rather than hire an electrician, Justin and one of his electrical engineering buddies decided it would be a better idea to do it themselves. Well, I quickly learned that electrical engineers are not electricians. After a few wiring diagrams (bad sign #1) and more lighting shorts (bad sign #2), I had enough legitimate gripes that we hired an electrician (who I was able to joke with about the situation!).
Anyway, maybe it is things like this that make me so fond of TI's new "Thank an engineer" campaign (see www.ti.com/thankanengineer). TI basically created a campaign that ponders what life would be like without engineers, who are behind the technologies we all use on a daily basis without thinking twice. From washing machines to cell phones to calculators, engineers at companies like TI are making things better, faster, smaller, cheaper.
Take a look at what life might be like if it weren't for engineers. And, if you have ideas for other videos, enter them in the TI contest. You can win a Flip video camera!
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