If you think imperial measurements are dead in london you never had to deal with plumbing in your apartment where you have a mixture of imperial and metric pipes and threads ;) And the best is always finding a metric pipe with an inch thread pitch on it....

Also IIRC technically most engineering schools in the US also use metric these days, it doesn't mean stuff doesn't get screwed up, imperial on it's own is also annoying since you have both decimal (thous) and fractional units which I always found frustrating on it's own.