To all engineers out there (maybe some mathies and enviromentals...and some softies)
Prof Quotes
By
"Now things are going to get more complex... it will involve i..."
- J. West, SYDE 211 (MATH 218)
"e to the 10t...get it? Tenti! Hahaha! Anyway, now evaluate the Laplace of e to the... Tenti..."
- J. West, SYDE 211 (MATH 218)
"Let's say you were at TalEng and someone asked you to solve this DE..."
- J. West, SYDE 211 (MATH 218)
"This is too hard to prove, so in the spirit of engineering..."
- J. West, SYDE 211 (MATH 218)
(talking about Pi Day)
West: "They should give out crazy pies."
Class: "Why?"
West: "Because it's irrational!"
(convolution theorem) "Integral of ti ta de ti de ta... hmm sounds like music class!"
- J. West, SYDE 211 (MATH 218)
"Get used to the curvy lines, it's part of growing up."
- J. West, SYDE 211 (MATH 218)
(graphing a vector function) "So this line is like the Great Wall of China, nothing can get pass this... actually I have no idea what I'm talking about."
- J. West, SYDE 211 (MATH 218)
"If you have 5 aces in your poker hand, no one wants to play with you."
- C. Springer, SYDE 213 (STAT 230)
Springer: "...so 1 over 13 for the aces..."
student: "There are 13 aces?"
Springer: "No, 4 over 52 is 1 over 13!"
You either get people squared or square people and I dont want to meet you in either case."
- C. Springer, SYDE 213 (STAT 230)
"Don't swear at the mechanical engineers, they have a hard life, but we don't want anything to do with them!"
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
"If you donate millions of dollars, I think we should show some appreciation."
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
(writes on the board) THIS KLASS IS VERY ESMART
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
"So you fill the address book with some stuff: first name, last name, phone number, number of girlfriends, etc"
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
"If I invented a new algorithm, tell me please!! So I can go publish a paper!"
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
"This always happens in a course: we learn something in the beginning and when we get to the end, we find it might not be useful!"
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
"This can be useless in many, many applications."
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
"If the third child is missing, you don't go to the police..."
- H. Tizhoosh, SYDE 223
"Let's take a break, so you forget about the equations. Then we can come back and think about them again."
- Jayaram, ECE 362
"It's pretty easy to figure out whether you're building something."
- Whitelaw, ERS 241
"There's no way the MTO would allow tractors on a 400-series highway."
- Whitelaw, ERS 241
"The federal and provincial governments have been trying to harmonize for some time, but it's just like two big, testosterone-driven men in a room."
- Whitelaw, ERS 241
(About a formula sheet) "Scan it in, scale it down, sell it to your classmates."
- Brodland, ENVE 224
"I should be able to think of a relationship between X and Y, shouldn't I?"
- Brodland, ENE 224
(On a window closing during a computer demonstration) "I'm not sure what I do to make it go to never-never-land like that..."
- Brodland, ENVE 224
"You just have one of those faces that is easy to pick on"
- Emelko, ENVE 276
"And I don't memorize things well... so clearly, I belong in Engineering."
- Emelko, ENVE 276
"May your teeth fall out and your nose hairs fall in knots!" (When talking to those students who did not do their homework)
- Dube, FR 192A
(5 minutes later) "Those of you who haven't done it... Your nose hair IS going to knot. At night. When you least expect it."
- Dube, FR 192A
"Thevenin and voltage divider will get you three quarters of the course. And buy the book. That's a joke."
- Sedra, ECE 332
