NASA official named hispanic engineer of the year

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:35:18 GMT, gcash wrote:

"Jacques van Oene" writes:

Dolores Beasley/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington July 26, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1753/1237)

RELEASE: 05-202

NASA OFFICIAL NAMED HISPANIC ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

Hm. Isn't this rather demeaning? I'd be embarrassed to be "Caucasian Engineer
of the year" as obviously I'm not good enough to be "Engineer of the year"



His capsule with an adobe heatshield worked great until it came to
splashdown.


;-)


Rusty

gcash wrote:
"Jacques van Oene" writes:

Dolores Beasley/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington July 26, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1753/1237)

RELEASE: 05-202

NASA OFFICIAL NAMED HISPANIC ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

Hm. Isn't this rather demeaning? I'd be embarrassed to be "Caucasian Engineer
of the year" as obviously I'm not good enough to be "Engineer of the year"

would you still be if caucasians (of which hispanics are really a subset)
were relatively few in engineering and there was commonplace prejudice
against them ?

--
Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++

gcash ) wrote:
: "Jacques van Oene" writes:

: Dolores Beasley/Erica Hupp
: Headquarters, Washington July 26, 2005
: (Phone: 202/358-1753/1237)
:
: RELEASE: 05-202
:
: NASA OFFICIAL NAMED HISPANIC ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

: Hm. Isn't this rather demeaning? I'd be embarrassed to be "Caucasian Engineer
: of the year" as obviously I'm not good enough to be "Engineer of the year"

: Of course, if they come out with "Fat engineer of the year", I'm in like
: Flynn!

Or "Comical Engineer of the Year", along with Dilbert.

Eric

: -gc

: --
: While Linux is larger than Emacs, at least Linux has the excuse that it
: needs to be.
: -- Linus Torvalds

gcash wrote:

"Jacques van Oene" writes:


Dolores Beasley/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington July 26, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1753/1237)

RELEASE: 05-202

NASA OFFICIAL NAMED HISPANIC ENGINEER OF THE YEAR


Hm. Isn't this rather demeaning? I'd be embarrassed to be "Caucasian Engineer
of the year" as obviously I'm not good enough to be "Engineer of the year"

"Engineer of the year"? Wouldn't that be demeaning? Wouldn't that indicate
that the title bearer isn't good enough to be "person of the year"?

Alain Fournier
Who is not entitled to be engineer of anything,
maybe I can proclaim myself to be the man of my house. :-)

Alain Fournier wrote:


gcash wrote:

"Jacques van Oene" writes:


Dolores Beasley/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington July 26,
2005
(Phone: 202/358-1753/1237)

RELEASE: 05-202

NASA OFFICIAL NAMED HISPANIC ENGINEER OF THE YEAR



Hm. Isn't this rather demeaning? I'd be embarrassed to be "Caucasian
Engineer
of the year" as obviously I'm not good enough to be "Engineer of the year"


"Engineer of the year"? Wouldn't that be demeaning? Wouldn't that indicate
that the title bearer isn't good enough to be "person of the year"?

Alain Fournier
Who is not entitled to be engineer of anything,

I had always thought you were. You seem to know some math and science.

maybe I can proclaim myself to be the man of my house. :-)



--
Hop David
http://clowder.net/hop/index.html

Hop David wrote:



Alain Fournier wrote:


Alain Fournier
Who is not entitled to be engineer of anything,


I had always thought you were. You seem to know some math and science.

I do know some math. ;-) I taught it in university for 10 years to
future engineers.


Alain Fournier

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:38:14 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
Sander Vesik made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

NASA OFFICIAL NAMED HISPANIC ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

Hm. Isn't this rather demeaning? I'd be embarrassed to be "Caucasian Engineer
of the year" as obviously I'm not good enough to be "Engineer of the year"

would you still be if caucasians (of which hispanics are really a subset)
were relatively few in engineering and there was commonplace prejudice
against them ?

*I* sure would.

If you got your engineering degree out of a box of Cracker Jacks, you'd be
happy to get any award. Even a racially motived one.

"Rusty" wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:35:18 GMT, gcash wrote:

"Jacques van Oene" writes:

Dolores Beasley/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington July 26,
2005
(Phone: 202/358-1753/1237)

RELEASE: 05-202

NASA OFFICIAL NAMED HISPANIC ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

Hm. Isn't this rather demeaning? I'd be embarrassed to be "Caucasian
Engineer
of the year" as obviously I'm not good enough to be "Engineer of the
year"



His capsule with an adobe heatshield worked great until it came to
splashdown.


;-)


Rusty