[theg5prank]

I think you may be missing the point. These rings are given to graduating engineers not as a beautiful object of congratulations for their achievements, but as a token designed to remind them of the burden they have taken on.

[adambard]

[This poem](http://www.tricolour.net/som.html) is part of the Canadian ceremony (or was at mine, anyhow), and describes the aforementioned burden. It may be because it strokes an engineers' ego a bit, but I enjoy it.

[VLM]

Ah so the IT equivalent would be something like a ceremonial pager duty model or something?