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Re: Iron Ring

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Post by guiomie »

drd wrote: post #45
simlevesque wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the hell did I just read ? It was not bridges, but a single overpass that fell and it is unrelated to the ring or engineers. The main problem was that two governements failed to identify the weaknesses because they wanted to save money. I despise people like you who try to link two totally unrelated facts to sound smart. http://www.cevc.gouv.qc.ca/

Ooops, I apologize pal, I guess I hurt your feelings, I didn’t mean that. But here is another example: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07/30/montreal-tunnel-coll... BTW, I don’t need to sound smart and still I like you.

My friend, this is just politics. This is a case of poor leadership trying to blame someone else for their own error (lack of investment in infrastructure). This as nothing to do with the iron ring.

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Post by HorizonXP »

My Iron Ring has been a conversation starter wherever I travel, and I've only had it for 5 years.

Any time I'm in the Valley, people recognize the ring and ask if I went to Waterloo. Funny thing is that I did, but I usually try to explain to them that all Canadian engineering graduates wear it, not just Waterloo.

I was even in Italy with my then-girlfriend-now-fiancee, and I had someone strike up a conversation with me because of the ring; they realized that we were likely Canadian, and started telling us about their son.

The Iron Ring really does establish a type of brother/sister-hood amongst us Canadian engineers. It's a nice feeling.

Re: Iron Ring

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Post by [deleted] »

potatolicious wrote: post #14
yurisagalov wrote: post #10

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I actually don't think that's strictly true. Although there might be a stigma associated with calling yourself an Engineer if you didn't go through an Engineering program, it is only illegal to call yourself a Professional Engineer if you're not properly licensed. Graduating from an Engineering degree (and/or receiving an Iron Ring) has no real legal protection or obligation. The licensing requirements to become a Pr…

Calling yourself a P.Eng without actually being a licensed P.Eng is very, very illegal. Calling yourself an Engineer without having graduated from a CEAB-accredited institution is also illegal, just that people don't care nearly as much as bout this. You will occasionally see job postings and titles for "software engineers" from companies that don't know about this particular legal snag, and for the most part it's no…

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Re: Iron Ring

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Post by joegaudet »

alex_c wrote: post #13

Random trivia: the "iron version" picture is of my own ring, uploaded a few years back when I was messing around with my friend's new camera. Pleasant surprise not only to see this on HN, but to see that the picture is still there after all this time :) As far as I know my year (2005) was one of the last years that U of T still offered an actual iron version, as opposed to stainless steel (most other schools no longe…

Usually you can get a 'retired' ring that is still made out of Iron, I prefer to wear mine down on my own :P

Re: Iron Ring

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Post by joejohnson »

alex_c wrote: post #13

Random trivia: the "iron version" picture is of my own ring, uploaded a few years back when I was messing around with my friend's new camera. Pleasant surprise not only to see this on HN, but to see that the picture is still there after all this time :) As far as I know my year (2005) was one of the last years that U of T still offered an actual iron version, as opposed to stainless steel (most other schools no longe…

You should put something in the picture for size reference (a ruler maybe). I couldn't tell if these were finger-sized rings or if these were more like bangles/bracelets. It doesn't say anything about size in the article.

Re: Iron Ring

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Post by tonyarkles »

Serow225 wrote: post #63
alex_c wrote: post #13

Random trivia: the "iron version" picture is of my own ring, uploaded a few years back when I was messing around with my friend's new camera. Pleasant surprise not only to see this on HN, but to see that the picture is still there after all this time :) As far as I know my year (2005) was one of the last years that U of T still offered an actual iron version, as opposed to stainless steel (most other schools no longe…

I think I had the choice of stainless or iron back in 2003 (U of S). They probably just had an old box of iron ones hanging around. They were pretty clear about the tradeoffs, the iron ones were traditional and symbolic, but they rusted and tended to leave orange marks on your fingers (as you might expect).

Are you still in Saskatoon? I'm always interested when I see other usask grads around places like this.

Re: Iron Ring

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Post by saulrh »

claudius wrote: post #56
fghh45sdfhr3 wrote: post #54

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Glass ring encased in rubber, with a label claiming it is exactly as flexible and stretchable as a 100% rubber ring would be.

I am getting somewhat jealous now – people should make wearable cyclic particle accelerators or something like that for those hacking nature rather than mere computers :-)

Diamond made out of isotopically pure carbon-14. Ring laser gyroscope. Negative-refractive-index metamaterial. A single giant LED. Nanolithography to produce structural coloration.

I've wanted a cool physics ring for quite a while.

Re: Iron Ring

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Post by cli »

joejohnson wrote: post #75
alex_c wrote: post #13

Random trivia: the "iron version" picture is of my own ring, uploaded a few years back when I was messing around with my friend's new camera. Pleasant surprise not only to see this on HN, but to see that the picture is still there after all this time :) As far as I know my year (2005) was one of the last years that U of T still offered an actual iron version, as opposed to stainless steel (most other schools no longe…

You should put something in the picture for size reference (a ruler maybe). I couldn't tell if these were finger-sized rings or if these were more like bangles/bracelets. It doesn't say anything about size in the article.

The article states that the ring is to be worn on the pinky of the dominant hand.

Re: Iron Ring

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Post by typicalrunt »

joejohnson wrote: post #75
alex_c wrote: post #13

Random trivia: the "iron version" picture is of my own ring, uploaded a few years back when I was messing around with my friend's new camera. Pleasant surprise not only to see this on HN, but to see that the picture is still there after all this time :) As far as I know my year (2005) was one of the last years that U of T still offered an actual iron version, as opposed to stainless steel (most other schools no longe…

You should put something in the picture for size reference (a ruler maybe). I couldn't tell if these were finger-sized rings or if these were more like bangles/bracelets. It doesn't say anything about size in the article.

From the article:

The Iron Ring is worn on the little finger ("pinky") of the working (dominant) hand

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