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Starting a Robotics Club - Advice?
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Any good software for drawing control systems/flow charts out there?
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Is My Rope Bridge Design Safe? Seeking Feedback on My Plans
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Manhattanhenge Event this Evening
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New Concept for Zero Emission Natural Gas Power Generation
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What's inside a gas detection Station?
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Question about hydrostatic pressure
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Terahertz scanner: does it work?
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Residential Fuel Cells: Japan vs US/EU
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How are singularity functions used in beam analysis?
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What is Tensile Force? - Researching Pantheon of Rome
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Building a garage elevator.... 3"x3" wall thickness
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Understanding Laser Safety: Choosing the Right Laser Level for Eye Protection
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Testing wind/water turbine performance
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Will I still be able to find a job as an engineer?
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Woodworking: How I Built My Own End Tables from Scratch
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Best place to buy the best cheap motors
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What Is the Difference Between Microzonation and Macrozonation?
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Popsicle Stick Bombs have you seen these before?
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What is Causing the Audible Sound in This Fountain Video?
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Need help creating articulated costume wings?
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SM/SC any good as fill Material?
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Can a Fushigi Gravity Ball replace K'NEX cars on a rollercoaster?
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How to determine the range of sensitivity for a camera sensor?
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Measure Air Leakage: Test Sealed Device Without Water
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How to design surface roughness model using CST?
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What Makes a Laser Range Finder Accurate and Reliable?
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Freeboard calculations for pontoon with additional weight
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Plasma Impedance Matching Network
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I want professional feedback on my work -- Building Model Structures
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Expert Tips for Zip Line Anchoring | How to Secure Your Backyard Zip Line
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Simple bending moment calculation
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Are these chrome plated pliers magnetic (ferrous)?
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Will it float or will it crunch?
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Does anybody know the sampling frequency of a cop radar?
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Insights Interview with Instrument Engineer Jim Hardy - Comments
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Trying to get a gallon of water to chill
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Find Reactions to Overhanging Beam
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Discover the Best Truss Design to Support Your Fascia | Expert Tips
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PID control for drone rotations
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Dig a trench filled with water rather than build the wall?
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Temperature, humidity and gas sealed box
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Advice for 2x4 weight distribution....
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Industrial applications of IR communication
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How can I design high-quality EEG electrodes?
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Optimal Shape for a Submersible Object with 360 Degree Maneuverability
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What type of sensor does this faucet use?
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Box Girder Distortion: Stability Geometry Explained
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Angle of pitch and heel for a boat snagged on the side wall
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What building mass should be applied for 2D analyses?
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What does W7 in 'W7 stream cipher' stand for?
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Do you think this waste-to-energy plant will work?
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Air conditioning unit with slightly open window
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Required Level of Physics/Engineering Knowledge?
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Engineering: Success Through Accuracy, Not Popularity
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Listen to a steel ship just built in 1943, what do I hear?
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How water cooling chills below room temperature?
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Instrumentation vs Measurement: What’s the Difference?
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Crush Cocoa Puffs with Compressed Air – Science Project
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Experimentally finding focal length of small biconvex lens?
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What do you guys think about Dynamic Tidal Power?
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Static Electricity: Does it Attract Food Waste?
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Optimizing Water Tank Volume and Pressure for a Wet Fire System on Upper Floors
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Upthrust Reaction - Water Injection @ 5bar -8msw Subsea
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How are wind turbine blades made to face the wind?
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Making bubbles and trying to use Trompe
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Trying to figure out the size of a base to make
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Convert Strain gauge readings to stress
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Why Does MIPS Show a Negative Result for Large Factorials?
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Do you think all railroad crossings should be replaced with overpasses
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Advance of Technology; 1818 to 2318....
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Why not use electricity directly instead of hydrogen
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Calculate Bridge Thickness for 35m Steel Structure | Deflection Prevention Tips
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Calculate the moment and the sag
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What determines a ship's ability to withstand sea state 9?
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Communication skills for engineers
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Will My Cantilevered Countertop Design Prevent Sagging?
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Engineering/physics idea next step?
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Is pixel a representation of intensity for light at a given location?
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Where can I find a digital counter for turns?
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Glass fibre Aquarium pool minimum thickness?
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Interview for Engineering Class
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Airflow vs Flowrate: Are They Synonymous?
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How is the mass of the composite shape calculated using centroids and statics?
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What are the operational problems in filtration in water treatment plants
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Distributed load with overhang and multiple supports
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News RIP Peter Jost: Father of Tribology, Engineer, Inventor
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Bending Moments and max deflection
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I can't manage my time, EE Freshman in a special situation
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Does anyway use escalators to generate electricty
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Difference between uncertainty and precision?
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Height of Instrument (Leveling method)
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Take the Association Survey - 2 min required
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Tracing object trajectory through a photocamera
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What happens when a building, or town is abandoned?
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A trailer doesn't react to a tractor's backing up until 10 feet of travel
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CFD LES: Simulating a Hurricane
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Help me move a floating bridge 90 degrees w/o getting wet
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Shock to an infant when pulling power cord out of a wall socket
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Methane as a substitute for petroleum in combustion engines
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