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    Engineering Company: Manufacturer or Dealer?

    If you work for an engineering company, can they be considered the manufacturer if they don't physically do the machining? lets say, you make the drawings and figure out how it will be manufactured. then you purchase materials and source it out to a machining company, an NDT company and a...
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    Motor voltage higher than battery voltage

    ok so basically I should be fine as long as I only throttle up to 24 volts? do throttles usually increase/decrease the voltage or current?
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    Motor voltage higher than battery voltage

    what happens if you connect a 36v electric motor to a 24v battery? Is that going to ruin the battery/motor?
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    Great job or year long internship

    I have a situation and I wanted to know what the Engineers on this forum thinks of it and maybe some advice. i work for a small company. 3 people left including my supervisor. it is now just me and the owner as far as engineers. then just one guy to do packaging. This is one of my first...
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    Entry Mech Eng salary lower than expected?

    I have been going on interviews lately and the salaries offered seem to be way lower than what I've researched from salary.com and other websites. according to these sites I am supposed to get between 50k-60k for Entry Level engineer but the reality is more like 20k-40k from what I've seen so...
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    Programs MAE major considering Software Engineering

    Thanks! that was very informative. so, do you think it is possible for me to just take a few important CS courses and get into a graduate program more related to SE such as CS? by the way, all the courses you mentioned I am definitely interested in taking. spring semester, I'm taking Numerical...
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    Programs MAE major considering Software Engineering

    Hello, I am a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major in my senior year and I enjoy it but I'm starting to think that I might be happier doing Software Engineering. as a note: I'm not really that interested in a career as computer programmer because they seem to make half the income as SE...
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    Cantilever beam bending moment and shear force

    Homework Statement im trying to write a program for a class but first i need the formulas for the bending moment and shear force. i have the displacement and angle of the cantilever beam under a point load: Y = -[(WX^2)/(6EI)][3a – x] for 0<x<a Y = -[(Wa^2)/(6EI)][3x – a] for a<x<L...
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    Is the Set of Functions with a Zero Integral a Subspace of C[a,b]?

    Homework Statement Determine whether or not the given set is a subspace of the indicated vector space: Functions f such that [integral from a to b]f(x)dx = 0; C[a,b] (not sure how to do the coding for integrals) Homework Equations to be a subspace it must follow these axioms: (i) if x and y...
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    Primary Dimension: Mass Units for Power, Pressure, Modulus, Angular Velocity

    Homework Statement For each quantity listed, indicate dimensions using mass as a primary dimension and give typical SI and English units: power pressure modulus of elasticity angular velocity Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution im not sure i understand what it is...
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    Schools Penn state erie or rutgers university?

    o sorry, i didnt put in enough info. i already did my first 2 years at a community college. i only need 2 years left to graduate. so fall 2009 will be the start of my junior year edit: i just called up penn state. they said that basically University Park is not an option :( i would have to be...
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    Schools Penn state erie or rutgers university?

    my major is mechanical engineering and I am not sure which school is better. Penn State University is always listed higher in rankings, but now i reallized that the side-campuses don't have the same reputations according to a few sites that i found... is a BS degree from rutgers actually better...
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    Relativity of distances/lengths

    according to einstein's theory, lengths of objects around you become shorter as you travel close tot he speed of light. does the distance that you travel also become shorter? or does this theory only refer to the length of objects horizontal to the direction you are going in? because if the...
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    Can Closed Timelike Curves Enable Real Time Travel?

    o ok. that makes sense, i was just a little confused with the way they worded it. my other question is with the last paragraph. it talks about "a series of light cones". if a light cone is all the different possible worldlines for a person/object then how can there be a series? wouldn't a...
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    Can Closed Timelike Curves Enable Real Time Travel?

    im trying to understand the theory of this. is a CTC supposed to actually bring an object back to the original time? or is it supposed to make it appear that way to an outside observer? I am reading up on it from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve but in the beginning...
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