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101 question on bus hanging off a cliff - balance
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How Tall Can a 273.1 x 12.7 CHS Steel Column Reach with Lateral Support?
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4 shop vacuum units in a series-parallel arrangement
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Building a high flow rate pulsatile pump
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Vertical wind turbine with two concentric rotors
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Holding on to your hat, I mean roof
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Phenomenon for lip motor boating?
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Use of a Water-Cooled Diesel Generator as an Off-Grid CHP System
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Is this an allowed solution? - 2nd order harmonic oscillation
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Calculating the Force of a Sound Wave on an Object
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What Are Pants on a Car?
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Running multiple studies in COMSOL
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Example of a technology that was long underestimated?
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Discover the Magic of Marble-Based Computing with Turing Tumble Kickstarter
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Use only a powerful fan without a compressor?
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Computer Axial Lithography: Just Awesome
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What are these rusty metal pieces in my staircase walls?
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Is Frequency Doubling the Secret to Producing Red Light in Laser Pointers?
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Bridge Collapse Genoa - Informed Engineering Perspectives
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Best Engineering in the Past 100 years
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Freezing Clocks: Accuracy Impact & Reasons
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Find suitable SI units to work with a Vibration Sensor
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What Is It? Update: New Use for a Business Card Holder
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Celebrating Engineers Week: Inspiring the Next Generation of Engineers
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Acoustic Barrier Fence: Reduce Noise with Sound Absorption
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How can I accurately transfer a color texture onto a 3d face model?
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Refractive Index vs Conductivity
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Modeling reaction forces on a foundation for fences
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What height can a pressurized N2O cylinder reach at 60 bar?
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The merger of engineering and economics
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Fabricating a storage room inside a large warhouse
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Force Calculation for bending of TOR steel bars
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High school solar car team in search of a mentor
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Feasibility of stratopheric wind turbines?
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(Biomedical Engin.) Fluid flow through a semi-porous membrane (COMSOL)
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Can saltwater be desalinated with nanobots?
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Units of capacity for the manufacture of flexo printing plates
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Coat Insulation Selection for the Snow and Mountaineering
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How can I build a cost-effective DIY vacuum chamber for my experiment?
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Which is the most efficient way to dive?
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Why are triple base propellants not used in firearms?
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Ion Drive of an Airplane - from MIT
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Maximum gain possible by sound wave focusing
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FIU pedestrian bridge install left it vulnerable to collapse, WTH
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Spatial reasoning in physics and it's importance
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Cubic Feet of Argon required to fill a tank under vacuum
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Brute force regression software?
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A Cautionary Tale on Inventing from the BBC
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Insights Interview with Engineer Mentor anorlunda - Comments
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Free climbing the face of a cliff
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Calculate lateral force/pressure of a body water
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Restrained / unrestrained beam
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News What is a list of job titles that fit this description
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Wind loads for circular cross-section lattice structures?
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Collapse of building #7 on 9/11
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Why do extra moment equations not count toward a system of equations?
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Opinions On This 50m Steel Span Bridge Without Supports
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Regulatory bodies for manned submersibles in Canada
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Breathing Underwater: A High Schooler's Quest
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How is DWT in container ships achived?
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Practical Fluid Mechanics: inversions & mixing
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Engineer's Delight: Obscure Machines & Power Generation Devices
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Strength of Schedule 40 steel pipe
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AC vs DC servo motors in large scale cable robot design
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Structural query on removing a masonry wall and lintels
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Research about magnetic stick-on signs for cars
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Need equipment and ideas for an experiment
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How to choose a pump for a simple irrigation system
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What is the basis for beach erosion control methods?
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Do you have to be good at hand-drawing for civil engineering?
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How Do Technology and Engineering Differ?
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Calculate Tidal Force on Underwater Artwork Sculpture in Philippines
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Vpr statics derivation of beam hinging
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