Spring 2025 – Fun Engineering Words

Engineering Jargon Defined

Decommission – throw it out

Non-trivial – it’s complicated

Zero-point energy field harmonic fluctuation – I don’t know

Phase-space incompatibility – I don’t know what is wrong

Thermal excursion – things got too hot

Rapidly depreciating asset – something is getting old

Defeating inverse electron entanglement – we are out of power

Asymmetric torque distribution – spinning out of control

Induced catastrophe – oops!

Strategically unbalanced – this design isn’t going to work

Pebkac – problem exists between keyboard and chair

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