OldCADuser wrote:
Speaking of Metric versus Imperial units (I worked 14 years for an American subsidiary of a British company and we were never allowed to refer to it as the 'English System') we had a sort of joke where I went to engineering school. At the time, this was back in the late 60's - early 70's, a US highway, US-41, bisected the the campus of MTU (Michigan Technological University), resulting in about half the classrooms being on one side and the rest on the other. Now I'm sure that no one planned it this way, but the buildings where you had your math, physics, chemistry, etc, classes were on the West side of US-41 while most all of the buildings where you took your engineering classes were on the East side. Now in those days, virtually all of the so-called 'science' curriculums, like physics and chemistry, were taught using the Metric System, while most all of the engineering classes were taught using the Imperial System. So the joke was that as you crossed the highway, you had to reset your thinking, from one set of units to another.
Today, students at the school, while I'm sure that there's still a mix of Metric and Imperial units being used in the different classrooms and labs, the 'joke' about crossing the highway is no longer relevant as they rerouted US-41 so that now most all of the academic buildings are on the same side of the highway and all but one of the dorms are now on the other side. If nothing else, it's a lot safer getting from one class to another than it was when I was a student there, although getting to your dorm could still be a bit tricky.
Speaking of Metric versus Imperial units (I worked... (
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Here is a handy conversion chart.