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Lift design -no electricity supply?
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How can i draw scientific figures for my papers?
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Angular velocity of a box about a corner
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Most demanding engineering disciplines for the Energy Sector
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Why cooling circuits, in a fridge for example, need a dryer?
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What is the function of the feed hold button on a CNC lathe?
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Can we separate heat from light?
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Tilting Objects: Learn How to Tilt an Object for Portable Device Design
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Force free body diagram problem on gym equipment
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Help Understanding 3D Coordinates
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Designing a Torsion Test Equipment for Mechanical Engineering Project
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Airflow design for generator box
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How Can a Sculpture Be Engineered to Float and Stay Stable in Water?
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How to represent an inductive circuit
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A way to send and receive wireless data
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Help finding plans for a simple rankine cycle
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Help to make a Unit Hydrograph of Reservoir Level - Storage Curve for a Dam
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Solving and presenting standard equations (software?)
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Strange indexing in Fortran Code
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Please help,A vehicle enters a test section of straight road at s =
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Calculating Distance with Motorcycle Patrolman and Car
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How to know a strain gauge's accuracy?
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Attempting to spin-cast parabola
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PID Control Doubt: Tuning Proportional, Integral & Derivative Gains
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How Do I Calculate the Load Capacity of My Inverted L-Shaped Car Port Post?
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Heating frozen water pipes by induction?
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Camshaft design from wanted torque
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Is Steam Really that Great? Consider This
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Hi, I am currently doing a project to design a lamp and am really
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What are some typical engineering questions during an interview?
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Bending around sheave or pulley
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Bale Loading Machine Components
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Books on Wind Energy (offshore)
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How Does the Electric Company Know My Power Usage Without Accessing My Meter?
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Calculating Heat Capacity & Water Flow to Melt Honey Barrels
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Can Someone See When Using a Cloaking Device?
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Digital audio from a sound card
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High speed electric motors specifications
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Career prospects for a CAD Monkey?
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What Is the Fastest Method to Cool 7 Gallons of Water in a Small Space?
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Laplace Transform Help: Solving Equation (1)
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Back of the envelope calculations help.
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Determine temperature profile in cylinder wall
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Interested in average household energy consumption in 2011
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Need method for trilateration of 3 GPS satellites
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Motor for Spit Roast Project - Up to 65kg Load & 4-6 RPM
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Why is autoparking using photosensors still a challenge for OEMs?
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How long will my gas tank will last?
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Shear valve Design. Wall thickness at break point.
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Laplace Transform (Integration Theorem)
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Who does Finite Element Modelling?
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Apply Phase Shifts Using FFT for Gaussian Noise Signal
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Acoustic ceiling effectiveness in reducing sound
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Can PLL Achieve Phase Lock & Frequency Lock?
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Understanding How a 3-Phase Generator Works
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Performance calculation of gas turbines
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Where can I get these specific sensors?
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How to find the right material to change the wavelength of light?
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How to electrically heat up glass really fast
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Production process theory/equations (Industrial Engineering help)
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What would happen if two identical blowers were connected in a loop?
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How much power is needed to heat water to 200C through a tube?
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Turbulence - just a phenomenon of cavitation?
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Relationship of diffrent parameters of Gas turbine
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Heat Equation for Compressible Fluids: Valid or Not?
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Entrance to centrifugal pump = pressure lost in entrance to container?
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Patenting use of material A instead of B for better performance?
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Hello everyoneNeed help with choosing a term.The situation is
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Cal Poly ACS: Why Are Reaction Wheels Angled at 29.3 Degrees?
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What is the fastest growing field in Engineering? other than bio
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Can alternative gases be used to test water pipes for leaks?
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Machine Element Design: Resources & Lecture Notes
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Measuring Heat Loss in a Hollow Cylinder
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How Can Wireless Technology Enhance Go-Karts?
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How can a Feed Magazine Design Facilitate Electronic Data Destruction?
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Can Tape with Copper Powder Melt Ice Using Chemical or Electric Solutions?
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Constructing Mini Hot Air Balloon for Physics Olympics
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How Can I Calculate Lift for a Human-Powered Helicopter?
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Particle accelerator (Where to get the glass tube?)
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Extended Kalman Filter(EKF) concept (SIMULINK)
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Design Pump w/ 158m & 250m Water Levels
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How Fast Can a 16-Inch Butterfly Valve Actuate?
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Home automation through telephone
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Greased metal on wet wood rails, making pyramids.
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CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Software Inquiry
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How Do You Calculate the X and Y Components of Forces in a Pully System?
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How Are Resultants Calculated for Parallel vs Perpendicular Distributed Loads?
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How Can a Heat Sink's Thermal Resistance Be Reduced with a Cooling Fan?
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Hydrodynamics: Wavemaking resistance
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