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Is Civil Engineering a Good Career Path?
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How can a one-way light tube be created using mirrors and plexiglass?
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PE license for Civil and mechanical engineers
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Is Structural Integrity related in any way to Static Friction? Or vice versa?
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Solar Water Heater Installation Cost: $/Watt
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Is Hell exothermic or Endothermic ?
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Solar Power Plant Idea for Review
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My Electrical Engineering Resume- how does it look?
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Surveying: Who Needs Surveyors?
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Understanding Scanner Functionality
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Negative Efficiency: Is Human Motion Worth It?
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Do compact fluorescent lights always make sense?
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Magnetic Simulation: Simulating Permanent Magnet Separator
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Parabolic Cables: Info for Grad Thesis
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What would perpetuum mobile be good for?
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Freezing Cold Energy: Building a Sterling Engine
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Which engineering field makes the most money?
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What do you think about design?
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Buy a sport bike sometime in the next year
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Win Engineering Society Award: My Design Project
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Which discipline to specialize in engineering?
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How Do I Calculate the Right Steel Stand Specifications for a Heavy Aquarium?
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How to make a flying rocket by using papers?
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Using Excel with engineering equations
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A (hopefully) easy question to answer about cantilever beams
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Pool Heater Installation and Comparison Questions
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What inspired your choice of thesis topic in civil engineering?
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American Windfarms Discussion: Sound Wave Power Generation
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Design a tree support system for windstorms
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What type of engineering should i go into?
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Why Are Women Underrepresented in Engineering Fields?
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Why do people write new text books?
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Invention: but dont know if it works.
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Engineering Design Process: 10 Steps Explained
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A simply supported beam has 2 equal point loads (W/2)
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Optimal Cross Section for Handling Tension and Compression in Boomilever Design
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Define the differance between Mass and Weight
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Route in becoming a charted engineer
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How Did Archimedes Use His Principle to Compare Densities of Gold and Silver?
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Why I Love My Vibrations Professor
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Is it plausible to generate electricity through buoyancy?
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Why Does Murphy's Law Always Strike My Old Truck?
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