Who says engineers don’t have a sense of humor? When EDN posted a blog in late June asking you, its audience, for your best jokes about engineers and engineering, more than 60 jokes and comments were posted, each of which gave us a good laugh.

In fact, they were so funny that we decided to turn the blog post into an open contest for our audience. We announced that five of the best posted jokes would be selected and featured. Each of the engineers who submitted the five selected jokes will receive a gift card and a certificate that proves they are one funny EE.

Browse through the five we selected based on their “laugh factor” and the comments posted in reply to the joke on the next pages. And be sure to check all of the jokes out here and add your own.Engineers on a train

Three engineers and three mathematicians are on a train going to a conference. The mathematicians each bought a ticket. The engineers have one between them. As the conductor starts through the train car, the engineers all rush off and jump into the small lavatory.

The conductor knocks on the door of the lavatory and says “Ticket, please.” At which point the engineers slide the one ticket through a ventilation slot and the conductor punches it. The mathematicians think this looks like a good trick and decide to try it on the train ride back home.

As the mathematicians board the train they have one ticket between them. The engineers have no ticket!

After a while, one of the engineers says, “Here comes the conductor!” So all three mathematicians jump up and run into the lavatory with their one ticket.

One of the engineers goes to the lavatory door and says “Ticket, please.”

Submitted by: rajhamabatsiEngineer your own body

An engineer dies and is met at the Pearly Gates by St Peter. St Peter asks the engineer his name as he searches for it in the big Book of Life.

St Peter looks up and states, “There’s been a mistake, you’re not due here for another 50 years!” The engineer is distraught and asks what can be done.

St Peter replies, “No problem, this happens more often than you think. Follow me.”

So they walk through the gates and to a room with several bins in it. This is the body parts room. St Peter takes the engineer to the legs bins and states, “We have all kinds of legs to choose from, but relative to all the good you have done in life so far, you only get $500 worth to play with.”

The engineer sees this as the usual ‘get the most for the least’ cost exercise so decides to pick carefully and asks, “how much are super strong legs?”

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“$10 each” replies St Peter. The engineer is overjoyed and takes two. The next bins are arms, and the engineer buys two super strong arms for $5 each. This is looking good and the engineer is building a great body and dreaming about all the fun he will have when he gets back to Earth.

They finally reach the brain bins. The engineer asks “How much are engineers’ brains?” “$5,000 an ounce,” replies St Peter.

“$5,000 an ounce!” exclaims the engineer. “Why so much?” St Peter replies, “Do you know how many engineers it takes to get an ounce of brains?”

Submitted by: Gen-Pros

Light bulb joke

How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

None. That’s a hardware issue.

Submitted by: Hercules2 + 2 = Fore!

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

The engineer fumed, “What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!”

The doctor chimed in, “I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!”

The pastor said, “Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him.” And asks the keeper:

“What's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?”

The greens keeper replied, “Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving school children from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime.”

The group was silent for a moment.

The pastor said, “That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.”

The doctor said, “Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them.”

The engineer said, “Why can't these guys play at night?”

Submitted by: kamikubvCar calamity

An electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and software engineer are on their way to a trade show when their car stalls and they are forced to pull over to the side of the road.

The mechanical engineer says, “It’s probably a mechanical problem. I'll get my tool box out of the trunk and I can fix it.”

The electrical engineer says, “No, I'll bet it's an electrical problem. I have my multimeter with me and I'll go check it out.”

Finally, the software engineer says, “I have the solution! Let's all get out of the car and then get back in. I'll bet we'll be back on the road in no time.”

Submitted by: DP23EDN thanks all who posted a joke or comment for the laughs! You folks are hysterical and prove that the smartest people in this world are also the funniest.

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