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Develop Wind Turbine Model for Electricity Generation
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Flat Back Trailing Edge Experimental Data
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Horizontally mounted compression spring
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Sumitomo's New Molten Salt Battery
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If my car is 56% better on fuel than can I say this?
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SMPS & ferrites statistical reports
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Design Problem: Pressure Rocket + Bike Pump
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Drawing Mhor's Circles: Orientation Angles on One Axes
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What is the difference between matched and unmatched uncertainties?
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Boost Your Energy Efficiency: Discover the Benefits of Floating Solar Panels
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Seleing heavy gas for instrument diplay purge
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Is Weapons Engineering Ethically Justifiable?
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Where can I find a schematic for a DIY component to VGA adapter?
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What is the Best Shape for a Hose Clamp to Provide Predictable Friction Loss?
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Mechatronics Project: Get Help on Robotic Arm Design
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Voltage divider in transformers?
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Troubleshooting a Mousetrap Car: Improving Energy Transfer for Maximum Distance
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Atomic Clock Accuracy: Moore's Law & Beyond
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Solving a 100-Year-Old Drill Chuck Issue
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Atomic Clocks & Moore's Law: Is There a Connection?
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Brayton Cycle modelling - optimum system design
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Solve 2-D Spring Problem: 21.75 & 22.25 Equations
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Understanding Concentrated Moment: How Does It Work?
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Can Carven Motors Revolutionize Engine Design? An Engineer's Perspective
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Designing a Scale for Bakery Ingredient Measurement
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Principles of operation of a helcopter gyroscope
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Is it possible to calculate Impact Force non-experimentally?
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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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Whether an object will slide or whether an object will rotate?
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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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Optimizing Heat Transfer in Pasteurization Systems: A Thermodynamics Question
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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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Mixing air how much water leaving?
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How can I create a motion sensitive toy that lights up and makes sounds?
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What Are the Future Applications of Mechatronics in the Automotive Industry?
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Force of wheel Perependicular to road over speed hump
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What is role of mass participating factor while doing Modal Analysis?
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Can Turnstile Gears Efficiently Generate Electricity?
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Falling sphere method to find fluid's viscosity
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Fix-fix Arch Approximate Static Analysis
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Modern uprated design for an Einstein refrigerator
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Minimum strength of pipe for load bearing
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Distinguishing Chrome, Carbon & Stainless Steel
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Force Required to Overcome Friction
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SNMP protocol and microcontroller
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Building a Sensor Circuit to Measure High Temperatures
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Heat transfer internal flow through circular tube.
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Sorting Different Materials Balls By Weight: Most Efficient Method
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Wireless Electricity: Replicating MIT's Witricity on Smaller Scale
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Utilization Factor In solar panels
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Why Do We Treat Input and Output Impedances Differently in FET Amplifiers?
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Force pushing against piston in car engine
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Sloping roof without support at centre
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Calculating the Specific strength for the rod
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Low RPM high Torque Motor with enough power to rotate 30 pounds?
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Transfer function of a PLC test rig
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Steel Tube Trapize Hanger Weight for 10'x4'x10' U-Shape
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Convert Precise Readings to Accurate Values Without Calibration
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Interested in Building a Thermojet Engine for Your Next Project?
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[help] Need powerpoint presentation
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Diamonds vs Wood: Proving the Unprovable
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Converting angular momentum into power
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Help Needed for Solar Panel Project
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Solve Axial Loading Problem: Brass vs Stainless Steel
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Why does the refrigerant in an air-conditioner's evaporator become cold?
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Where Can I Find a Heavy Duty Car Trailer for a Mobile Vehicle Lift?
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Why Hasn't Low-Cost Space Launch Technology Been Developed Yet?
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Layer of Ice in water pipe (affect on heat transfer)
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Looking for shoes with high friction coefficients
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Insulating a Steam Pipe in a Factory: Ideal Type, Thickness, and Cost
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Applications of abstract algebra to engineering
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What kind of a pump is used in creating vacuum
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Designing a Plenum Chamber for Motorcycle Supercharging
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Levitating Magnet with Load of 12oz: Shielding Electronics & Transmitter
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Syringe Pump Manufacturing: Motors Used in Systems
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Resources for Engineering Statics? (1st year course)
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Automated Launcher: Launching 4m & 50g Projectiles
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Wind Farms: Are they Really Providing Useful Electricity?
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Predicting Temperature with a Simple Heat Transfer Model
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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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Utilizing to generate power of excess 60# steam
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Sensor fusion using extended kalman filter
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Vhdl Temperature simulation help
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Free body diagram, bearing forces
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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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Is Using a Matrix to Analyze Multiple Sensor Data in FFT Appropriate?
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Heat Exchange Solutions to Improve Shop Comfort
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Spring back Plastic? Lend me your brains
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What are the key differences between civil and environmental engineering?
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Heat Powered Fan: Get Expert Advice Here
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Peak Torque Calculation for Twin T3/T4 Turbos in 2.0L Camry Motor
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