Hey dork,
All of what you said is still part of the ENGINEERING aspects of construction. I am not the one who designs, I enforce what has already been designed.

 

Please lord drop out now, please dont work on any construction site that i might possibly ever have to be around once the job is done, maybe you are trolling, maybe not...but those courses are very important to the building of structures. WOW

 

K I got owned on the physics part....

How about Biology? I guess I have to know that in case one of my workers drops a hammer on another guys head and I have to watch how the red blood cells react with the oxygen once they are exposed?

 

i was kidding about the spanish and most of what you guys are talking about is the egineering aspect of construction. a contractor doesnt design the building he just puts the peices together. when putting hurricane straps on a truss you dont have to calculate the maximum velocity of the wind in which it will take to shear the strap. the engineer already has the part number on the plans, you just look it up and put that peice there. as for the concrete just because it dries fast has nothing to do with the strength, accelerators can be added so the concrete will reach its strength faster, that way you can strip the forms imediately and move on.

 

I see that now.
First time I read through it fell right in line with the original post so I thought you were serious.

(You need to post about 5,000 times like that before you can get away with not using a smilie.)

 

i you use the smilie it gives it away right there, you gotta wait and get some reactions out of people.

 

Why I oughta....

Wise guy, eh?

Remind me to murder you later.

 

this should help you calm down. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/21566/

 

Then you better know how to design or you will just be a useless bureaucrat.

When I was in the military working on aircraft, the Quality Assurance reps had to be experts with line experience.

 

Yea but thats what I'm trying to argue...

I think you should only have to take courses pertaining to your major. I know most gen ed. classes are easy but they're a huge waste of time/money(books etc...)

 

One thing that colleges try to do is to teach you HOW TO THINK. Learning HOW TO THINK helps people get jobs, and learning HOW TO THINK helps people move successfully from one job (or career) to another.

While you do not see the need for physics now, I guarantee you will apply it in your career many times over. Let's say that down the road, as a construction supervisor guy, you have to attend a presentation on how and why something will be built the way it is...I would thinkthat your physics classes will comein rather handy then, and allowyou to understand the "whys" of what you are doing.

By the way, While I was a Braodcast/Journalism Major with a minor in Theater, I now teach, and those gen ed. classes did come in very handy.

Tim C.

 

Yep---why do pre-meds take calculus? To wed out those that can't cut it. I know a professor in the architecuter dept. at a university, and he says part of his job is to weed out the 80% of the people who want to be, but cannot cut it in the achitecture business.

TSC

 

putting the level of truth to this idea aside, i'm of the belief that a better understanding of why one is doing the things he/she is doing provides a better chance that he/she does said things correctly and with genuine care...i'd certainly hope a contractor with a construction management degree had an understanding (at a level beyond the superficial 'because that's what someone told me to do') of why the laborers carry, put, pour, weld, tie, bolt, etc...same goes for anyone else in any line of work

 

Dork? I am not the one who needs to understand design, in order to enforce. How does one enforce what one does not understand?

Damn...Kids these days!

 

undestanding the consept of physics should stop at physics 1, i have to take physics 2 also