Source: Emanuele Spies

While Mondays often get the title of “worst day of the week” sometimes Friday can be one of the hardest days to get through. The weekend is at your fingertips, and the sweet freedom of sleeping in and doing whatever you want is so close. But you still have to get through one more day in the office. To get you through the final push of the week, here are 10 engineering jokes to make you laugh!

1) To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. But to the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

2) What is the difference between a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer? Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets. But chemical engineers build the targets that explode.

3) Three engineering students were sitting in the cafeteria talking about who designed the human body. One student said, “Look at all the joints. It must have been a mechanical engineer.” “No, no,” said the other student, “It was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has thousands of electrical connections.” The last one paused for a second and said, “No. It had to be a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?”

4) How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it’s clearly a hardware problem.

5) What is the definition of an engineer? Someone who solves a problem you didn’t know you had, in a way that you don’t understand.

6) A mathematician, scientist and engineer were told by their boss to find the volume of a red ball. First, the mathematician derived the formula for a volume for a sphere of the red ball’s radius. Second, the scientist submerged the ball in a graduated cylinder filled with water and measured the displaced volume. Lastly, the engineer looked up the model number of the ball in the Red Ball Manual and read the volume off of the page.

7) Engineers love to solve problems. But if they can’t find a problem, they will just create their own to solve!

8) Why did the engineering students leave class? They were getting a little ANSI!

9) You might be an engineer if you’ve used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging clothes and taping ducts.

10) A civil engineering student was taking a final exam. He had answered all of the questions but he was stuck on the last one. He knew he had enough right answers to pass, and after a few minutes wrote a rude answer and turned it in. A few days later his professor asked him to come into his office to discuss his final exam. Nervous he had failed, the student went to the office. The professor explained that the student had a near perfect score, but she had to deduct one point for the last question. The question was, “describe the construction of a bridge across a deep ravine with a raging torrent and unstable walls.” The student had answered, “blast the rocks and damn the river.”

Which one of these jokes made you laugh? Personally, my favorite was 10. Let me know what your favorite was in the comments!