General Engineering Forum

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Understand Fortran Coding Do Loop: VBA Translation Help

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SHL personality test results and career fit

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Is there an expiration date on propane?

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Working in all engineering fields

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What is the distance of the resultant from point A on the beam?

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55 yr old man, homeless. Has degree in electrical engineer and physics

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Bachelor of Engineering at UoA: Engineering Science or Mechanical?

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How efficient are maglev trains compared to wheeled trains?

  • Dissident Dan
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Understanding Concrete Beam Construction Methods

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Micro-hydro power from 50m waterfall with 6 inch pipe

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How to Design a Simple Two Floor Office Building with a Roof?

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Railway Engineering Curve Design Through Hallade Method

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What is the Standard for Valve Pressure Ratings?

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Designing a Solar Oven for Denture Moulds

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Steel Joists: Moment of Inertia?

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Stoopid car Stop blowing cold air

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Elementary School of Engineering?

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Spatial Cross Correlation help ly needed

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Questions for Systems Engineers

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  • Poll Poll

Would you fly on an unmanned commercial air transport?

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Digi-Key and Alternatives

  • Harry E
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Applied Seismology ebook _ finding

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Piping stress Analysis for Cooling Water Circuit (Supply/Return)

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Ways to prevent slippage of a structure under testing

  • MarleyDH
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Let's Talk About Energy Sources

  • Seth0Mitchell
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What does radius of gyration mean for a spinning wheel?

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Is My A-Frame Structure at Risk of Buckling or Bending?

  • Fugro
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Evaluating the capacity of steel plate

  • Fugro
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Calculating Beam Deflection: Questions & Answers

  • mchei
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Black steel pipe size for 26-gpm fire sprinkler system at 48-psi

  • jeff3
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Who else shares a passion for flying?

  • narrator
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How High Can a Gravity-Fed Water Fountain Shoot?

  • brandy leshee
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Fed up with Autodesk Inventor student registration

  • Deathfish
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How to cut 1/8 inch thick lexan into a circle

  • leroyjenkens
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Whats the deal with an Engineering Technology degree?

  • tempneff
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Basement sump pump liner install, back-fill with concrete?

  • Spinnor
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IPhone app measures really hot temperatures

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Calculate Pipeline Pressurization Time: 2,355 ft, 20 psi, 20-inch Pipe

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Prerequisite for computer science major

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Same curvature in spline but different slope

  • armin11
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Improving my engineering mathematics

  • MechEng2010
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Reading matrices from user-specified files in Fortran 90

  • muzzy29
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Dangers and safety considerations in the paper and pulp industry?

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What personality traits attract people to engineering?

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Do engineers really need to understand calculus?

  • Farina
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Improving study habits for calculus 3 as an EE major

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Where can I find help learning ETABS?

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Calculation of large deflection of plates

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Can information bleed between monitors 2 inches apart?

  • JonF
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Boiling Water via New Solar Panel Method

  • Thundagere
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Modify TV remote to cap volume at 12 despite display showing 100

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Knot Tie-ing: Adjustable loop and knot that gets more secure as its pulled

  • KingNothing
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Will the Bering Strait Tunnel ever become a reality?

  • Willowz
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Periodicity of a Function: How to Determine if a Function is Periodic

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[1st CIVIL ENGINEERING],. MECHANCIS

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Ancient Engineering Measurements

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Multiple engineering masters for renewable energy work?

  • Seth0Mitchell
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Ontario Universities for Software Engineering

  • Mini-me
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Can you define a Poisson ratio for fluids like water?

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3D software for magnetic problems

  • Low-Q
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Why is my engineering job so different from university?

  • ilovesteak
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COMSOL-Cantilever Resonating in Water

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Getting custom heatsink parts manufactured for GPU cooling

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Guy Raises Stonehenge Size Blocks By Himself

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Fix 94 3000gt VR4 Ticking Noise Before Selling

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Why is the Displacement Formula ½at2?

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Soil displaced and depth of a pile

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Solution to Statics Design Problem Found

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Pressure Safety Valves Calculator - Fire Case Gas Filled Vessel

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Software to analyse simple continous beam

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Higher order terms of Range Kutta for SPH?

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Is the transfer function (s²+1)/(s+1) realizable?

  • Arslan
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Acoustic Resonance of a Building

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Effects of Increasing Header Pipe Diameter in Water Distribution

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Calculating pressure on an embedded pipe in vertical plane

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Converting accelerometer data to displacement by double integration

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Dropped out of grad school for the third time today

  • Physics_UG
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Creating a Fast-Melting Plasma Cutter for Science Projects

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Civil Engineering Personal Projects

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Building a wood bed platform - how much will it support?

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What seismic design codes should I consider for my subsea structures?

  • aa2105
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Fluid Mechanics Book recommandation

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What does the 97% storage efficiency of a flywheel represent?

  • nwilkins259
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Is it possible to build a mirror array with adjustable focal length?

  • Urvabara
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Projectile Measurements: RPM, Position, Velocity, acceleration

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Does Mass Distribution Affect the Landing Orientation in Drop Tests?

  • arun2412
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Millitary Standard for Small Water Craft, Navy, Marines

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Concept Evaluation-Single house computer

  • 72Zorad
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How to avoid killing birds with wind turbines

  • Ivan Seeking
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Skip college and become a Nuclear Power Reactor Operator. Really?

  • Math Is Hard
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Joseph's Workbench: a pub with a story

  • Jobrag
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Engineering nightmares, fiascos, and disasters

  • Ivan Seeking
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News NOVA program on Enigineering 9/11

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Using a zoom camera to identify object and laser to track

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