Engineering in Czechia

Engineering in Czechia seems to be much like Engineering in America. The only differences I can imagine would be dealing exclusively with the metric system, needing to communicate in multiple languages and having more government supervision. Dealing with the Metric system is certainly easier when considering that everything is base ten, but I would struggle conceptualizing things like length and weight. Simply because I have grown up with the Imperial System and saying that something weighs kilograms or a distance in meters is hard to quantify for me. As far as the language goes, in America we certainly need to work with foreigners, but it is usually expected that they speak English so dealing with foreign languages is not an issue. Whereas in Czechia they have to know Czech and probably English as well or maybe German. As far as government overhead goes it seems that this is a sour spot for Czechs. Two Czech engineers I have spoken to have complained about being handed down commands relating to how to make energy from politicians in Germany. Also, the regulations regarding how much water flow is allowed to go to toilets and showers makes European bathroom inferior to American bathrooms. There is not enough water pressure in the system to make the shower nozzle feel good. The Czech toilets don’t have enough water in them and the limited amount of water that is there is not situated properly. The problem with the toilets means that every time the toilet receives a number two then it is necessary to use the little scrubber that is kept next to the toilet for cleaning inside the bowl. I have spoken to others, and it sounds like I am not the only one that has experienced this problem. I’m not sure, but I assume that this problem originates with regulations surrounding how much water can be used per flush.

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