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Forces in truss members greater than applied force?
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Understanding the Salt Engine: Effects of Salt on an Engine
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How Did the Storm Damage My Southwind Sailboat?
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Balsa Bridge Design Optimisation
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What are some factors that affect the drying time of table utensils?
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Axial Force in Structure with No Parallel Force
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What good will having a second language be for an Engineer?
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Does anybody here own a Honda Ridgeline?
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Joints/fixtures for a beam bridge
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How Can I Build an Affordable Vibration Isolation Platform for Filming Concerts?
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How can I prevent my glass pool fence from slipping?
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What Is This 20-Inch Long, 5-Inch Diameter Object?
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Engineers, can you take this survey for me?
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Control System For Tensile Testing Machine
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Engineering technician a good job?
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Local to global transformation; end rotational displacments
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Water leaking through floor below balcony
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Opinions on job outlook/relevance to interests
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Force distribution on a K-Truss
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What are the structural benefits of a hyperbolic parabooid roof?
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Considering a career in Engineering
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Any ideas which improve quality of life
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Abnormal motions of volleyball ball
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Are your relatives engineers or scientists
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How can you distribute 20 lbs of pressure in 5 hours using only odd numbers?
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My parent's cars are sinking in mud.
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What is the formula for calculating the maximum deflection of a bike axle?
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Fundamentals of Engineering Exam question (EIT)?
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Engineering, yes. But which engineering?
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Electrical, Mechanical, and Computer Engineering Combination
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How hard is it to get into engineering at MIT/Princeton/Stanford?
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Master in engineering after BSc Physics?
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Someone can help me with Comsol multiphysics?
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How Can I Self-Study Dynamic Systems?
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The best method for a many many variable optimization problem?
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Aspiring to become a Mechanical Engineer
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Need help for INTERVIEW an environmental engineer of technology
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How to Calculate the Proportionality Constant for a Two Tank System
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Is the Circle Division Math for the Stator Correct?
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Do strain gauges need calibration
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First Time Poster Accelerometer Analysis
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Three question on error-propagation and flow measurements
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Develop Wind Turbine Model for Electricity Generation
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SMPS & ferrites statistical reports
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Drawing Mhor's Circles: Orientation Angles on One Axes
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Boost Your Energy Efficiency: Discover the Benefits of Floating Solar Panels
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Is Weapons Engineering Ethically Justifiable?
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Is fixing car alignment important?
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Atomic Clock Accuracy: Moore's Law & Beyond
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Atomic Clocks & Moore's Law: Is There a Connection?
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Understanding Concentrated Moment: How Does It Work?
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Advantages/disadvantages of twisted wires VS wires bundled next to each other
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Fix Non-Coplanar Line in AutoCAD
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Help Finding Books on Heat Conduction in Construction Materials
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What is the Column Effect in Trusses?
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Math Skills Needed to Be an Engineer
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Can an Electric Car Run Forever on a Slope with Rollover Power Generators?
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How Did Engineers Construct Submerged Tunnels Like BART's?
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Are rockers and rollers mobile support?
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What is the Engineer's Magic Box?
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Solving an Ansys WB Stress Concentration Issue on Stiffener Tip
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What is role of mass participating factor while doing Modal Analysis?
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Fix-fix Arch Approximate Static Analysis
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Minimum strength of pipe for load bearing
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Utilization Factor In solar panels
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Sloping roof without support at centre
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Convert Precise Readings to Accurate Values Without Calibration
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Diamonds vs Wood: Proving the Unprovable
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Real life applications of integration
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Looking for shoes with high friction coefficients
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Applications of abstract algebra to engineering
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The Weedaput: Engineering In Action
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News Land Tenure Issues: Find Sources & Info Here
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Resources for Engineering Statics? (1st year course)
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How Can I Create an Effective Parachute for My Egg Drop Project?
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Understanding Shear and Moments: Signs in Cantilever Beam
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Best place to begin a Civil Engineering career
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Are Engineers' Car Shopping Preferences Different from Average Consumers?
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What are the prerequisites for pursuing multiple engineering disciplines?
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What are the key differences between civil and environmental engineering?
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What exactly does a Construction Engineer do?
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Back to School as a Physics Major
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Derivation of second order system transfer function
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What is the reality of pursuing a career in engineering?
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Can radar detect flying animal?
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Tape experiment how to pull at constant speed?
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Very Large Scale Wind Generator
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What Is the White Layer on Water?
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Can You Help Me Interview an Engineer for My School Project?
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What Software Can Design a High-Accuracy Collimator Lens?
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Winter Wonderland: Blizzard Video from Last Week
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HELP: Simscape for structural engineering
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Estimating Energy Potential from Medical Waste Incinerator Heat?
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Who Excels More, Physicist or Engineer: In Theory or Practice?
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Optics: Reversing a Nuetral Density Filter
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Tapered beam deflection problem
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