new show about engineers

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new show about engineers
tunring like to change to a lighter subject, tv.
i like to hear my colleagues in put on a national tv show about engineers. what would you call it? what disciplines would you portray? which actors would you like to see in it?
let's face it, we're not the most exciting thing.  so do you see something like a medical emergency show?  someone runs in.  "i need these plans reviewed stat."  maybe the fellow doing the visine commmercials could star.
engineering is the art of not constructing...of doing that well with one dollar what any bungler can do well with two after a fashion.
yeah, about the only way to make it exciting is to have engineer vs. crooked (developer, contractor, architect..etc) with a collapse involved.  kind of like every-day life along the florida coast with condos!
lutfi, you have some imagination. i would like the scene of trying to rescue some shopping customers from a retail mall. the firemen are there, but due to recent earthquake, they just can't go in. why asks the reporters and the commisioner? the structural engineer has to ok that the columns have not buckled and nothing is collapsing.  the s.e. oks it, but then the geotechnical engineer pulls in to the parking lot and must ok that instantaneouis settlement on the liquefiable soils is not too great a magnitude to settle the building.
i would say bruce willis would be the geotech and just can't get a name for the s.e. just yet.
don't forget about that "arlington road" (think the name is right) movie a few years back with the bad guy played by a structural engineer (tim robbins i believe).  my wife had a field day with that one.
since they have all the csi shows now how about "forensic engineering" where they go into a disaster and show why the structure collapsed, or the roof blew off.  some of this is done on engineering disasters on the history channel but it could be made into a prime time show.
or at least the occasional made-for-tv movie.
hg
there was a movie featuring an engineer with horn rimmed glasses, short sleeved white shirt and pocket protector.  michael douglas flipped out and shot up a mcd for not serving breakfast and beat up some hoods with a bat.  i've forgotten the title.
engineering is the art of not constructing...of doing that well with one dollar what any bungler can do well with two after a fashion.
"falling down".  was it any good?
hg
don't forget about "family affair."  uncle bill could afford a park avenue apartment, a butler and he was a civil engineer (i suspect more structural than civil).  plus he was always travelling to exotic locales and dated some fine looking women.
just like all of us.
can't quite think of a name for the show or even much of a plot but the head man has to be sean connery as a structural guy. depending on the character, if he is debonaire he could be harrison steele or if more of the action type, harry mccolumn.  must have the scottish accent of course.