reverse engineering

Dictionary.com defines it as:

The process of analysing an existing
system to identify its components and their interrelationships
and create representations of the system in another form or at
a higher level of abstraction. Reverse engineering is usually
undertaken in order to redesign the system for better
maintainability or to produce a copy of a system without
access to the design from which it was originally produced

Bill Gates reverse engineered the Macintosh 1986 OS to create windows '95. < that is an example of reverse engineering

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ghetto engineering

A method of building, desinging or inventing in which anything, no matter how unprofessional or non-aesthetically pleasing, is done to complete the project.

That guy just used popsicle sticks and bubble gum to repair his exhaust pipe. He's a master of ghetto engineering.

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Mechanical Engineering

n. The most hardcore and manly type of engineering known to man.

Business major: "What do you major in bro?"

MechE major: (in a deep booming manly voice)"Mechanical engineering."

Business major: *shits his pants out of awe and fear*

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Drive By Engineering

Engineering accomplished, usually incorrectly, by walking in the vicinity of a project, and attempting to point out how it could be better or how it is wrong.
The drive by engineer is usually in a position of authority and has failed to consider all of the relevant facts before making his or her incorrect claims. The victim of the drive by engineering is then forced to spend several hours justifying the design to the superior.

"Did you hear that Bob was a victim of Dave's drive by engineering?"

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social engineering

The attempt to control social behavior.

The Canadian government wants to create a passified country through social engineering.

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Electrical Engineer

A person with substantial skills in imaginary mathematics and the ability to use these unreal numbers to come up with an answer that applies only some of the time.

Also: A person whose ship is so far past the point of entry that the only hope is to crash through the rocks to the other side.

Must be an EE (Electrical Engineer): reference song, "Purdue EE Theme Song - Anon"

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Afro Engineer

To put something together in a makeshift fashion.

See also: nigger rig and jerry rig

I managed to afro engineer that broken plane wing with a roll of duct tape.

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