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Why I Love My Vibrations Professor

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Is it plausible to generate electricity through buoyancy?

  • cabcabby
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Are Some Engineering Majors Harder Than Others?

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- Engineering degree or Engineering/Science double degree?

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Is It Possible to Hide a Number Plate Inside a Bumper?

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Game cube to usb adapter advice

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How Big Is the Airplane That Matches the Width of an 8-Lane Roadway?

  • Cyrus
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Flooding Risk for Cofferdams: Time to Reach 1.5 Meters Without Pumps?

  • gurly03star
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The Best Contraptions, and other Rube Goldberg moments

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is Calculus Enough for Aspiring Mechanical or Structural Engineers?

  • nickenrite
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What did you studied in your 1st and 2nd year ?

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Why Does Murphy's Law Always Strike My Old Truck?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Simulate a Working Model with Sodaplay Software

  • Shahil
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Locating a leak in high pressure water plastic plumbing

  • DaveC426913
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Cheap Infrared Camera for Detecting Human Heat - $30 or Less!

  • sphoenixee
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Learn Adobe Photoshop Basics for Low Price

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Structural Engineering for 16-Year-Old in NZ - Nick

  • nickenrite
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Calculating forces vectors etc?

  • Ekka
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Which suitcase handle is more ergonomic: rigid or swinging?

  • nickcc
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How do I use the method of joints to analyze bridge structures?

  • The_murphulator
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How to analyze forces in a bunk bed supported by wall rails and legs

  • cabellos
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Apprenticeships in structual engineering?

  • nickenrite
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Deflection of a Perfect Strut Under Point Forces

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What engineer would be involed in this?

  • namwob
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Laddermill- novel windmill design

  • aeroboyo
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Method of consistant deformations

  • jmf322
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Waterfall Turbine/Magnetic Feild Inducer

  • xieon
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How to Gain Insight from a Professional Engineer?

  • zee1
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Fountains before electric pumps

  • bobbobwhite
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Folding bunkbed wall support mechanisms for caravans

  • cabellos
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Calculate Deflection of Beam Under Point Load

  • bravegers1
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What to get an engineer for his birthday tomorrow?

  • Loren Booda
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Statics Problem - I've been out of school too long.

  • Michael Wakefield
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Building a Tabletop Apparatus Without Stored Energy

  • sunnyjay
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Can I Combine Engineering with Learning Languages and Cultures?

  • magnus1225
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What Are the Equations of Motion for Circular Motion?

  • plug2002
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School boards: Idiots with creative engineering proposals

  • Rach3
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Telescope mirror polishing simulator

  • Lerch
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Highway Maintenance Costs: What's the Average Annual Cost?

  • luckycharms
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Pressure Chambers Project: 30+ PSI for School

  • GTdan
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Where to find the following information?

  • Song
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Underground Storage Tank subjected to any loading when it is in burying?

  • baleno911
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Take some pictures at school with my new camera

  • Cyrus
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Civil/Environmental Engineering: Pros and Cons

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What sort of engineering should i do?

  • meee
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Inventing Process: Agony, Maths & Peanut Butter

  • wolram
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Dynamics: solve both trajectories

  • 600burger
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Where to buy RFID readers and tags for thesis research

  • IrOnFiSt
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Challenge To Build The Tallest Tower

  • dratcliff
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UGS NX4 vs Solidworks: Which is Better?

  • bboy
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Engineering fields that work outdoors

  • Ghostblade
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PDF example of mechanical structure?

  • Bert
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Dimensioning a house's main-pipe

  • TSN79
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Simple Computer modelling - Software suggestions

  • 3trQN
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Technical name for floating balls that reduce evaporation and heat loss

  • paddy-boy66
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Sizing an electric heating element with resistance wire coil

  • John Galt
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Calculating Failure Rate: 0.8 Reliability in 2000 Hours

  • scotchpie
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Misread heat transfer coefficient units on quiz

  • Cyrus
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Just Passed the Dept Qualifying Exam

  • Clausius2
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Transferring Programs from TI-83 to TI-84: Is it Possible?

  • Robokapp
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Can you make cardboard organ pipes?

  • manu_phm
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Difference between generation rate and evaporation rate

  • melpec
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FINAL VOTE - Bridge Over Troubled Water

  • ZapperZ
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Searching for a Universal Book of Equations

  • rasperas
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Vacuum System Design: Penning Gauge Effects

  • Remi
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T-beams and Second moment of area

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Standards and codes for designing amusement park rides

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Quiting my job. Tell the truth or lie?

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Designing an Item Finder for High School Student - Advise Needed

  • Harmony
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Study Habits ( for students only)

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Arrogance in academia vs. practical engineering work

  • Clausius2
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Which is the Broadest Engineering Discipline?

  • tegra97
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Wave propagation in elastic tubes.

  • somasimple
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Trane Party of 8: A Spectacular Installation Abortion

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Is Engineering More Office-Based or Hands-On?

  • meee
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Materials Engineering: My Interesting Month So Far

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Rattling and humming from 1992 Honda Accord DX muffler

  • Gokul43201
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How to measure height above sea level

  • TSN79
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Can You Spot the Invisible Ductwork?

  • russ_watters
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I just got accepted into Engineering

  • triden
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Is a Cheap, Eco-Friendly, and Tax-Free Steam Car Possible?

  • wolram
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The Lasting Power of Man-Made Structures

  • wolram
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How to setup printer to print multiple files sequently

  • Mike Phan
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Where to download OrCAD PSpice software

  • mich_v87
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Is Over-Engineering Hindering Your Success in Engineering Projects?

  • Cyrus
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Efficient Blueprint Design Software for Boats and Buildings

  • UnknownPiratte
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Does sand pile shape affect the load above a tunnel underneath?

  • brbeck777
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What is the Unique Design of the New Railway Station in Spain?

  • xexus
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Can someone without art skills become a good engineering designer?

  • Jin Sen Zhang
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[Ask] about manufacturing engineering

  • bboy
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What Energy Level is Needed for a Laser to Ignite Air Like Lightning?

  • Intuitive
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Choosing a Path in Engineering: Balancing Design and Fundamentals

  • jactrigga
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Good riddance to Summer Session 1

  • quantumdude
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Don't blame me, it's my first day

  • Hawknc
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