I'm not certain it's true for every building, but as far as I know the basements do not extend under the sidewalks. You hit on my main concern in that last post: that the sidewalk will be bonded to the foundation and either settling or frost heaving of the sidewalk will apply a torque the the...
Yes, slightly. There aren't any major issues with water pooling on the building side of the sidewalk. The street itself is relatively steep so it drains fairly well.
Hello all,
It's been a long time since I've been on this forum, but I'm back with a question outside my area of expertise. I own an old building along a street which is being completely rebuilt. The sidewalks are 6' wide concrete and have an expansion joint ~2-8" from the foundation of the...
Are you in Chicago now, and is your intention to stay in the Chicago area?
It's true that there is a prestige difference between the UIUC and UIC engineering programs. But that doesn't mean that the quality is genuinely lower at UIC. Personally speaking, I think the route that would let me...
Just a comment on the relative cost-
If the first program takes a year and the second program takes two, don't forget to account for the fact that the first program would get you back into the workforce a year earlier. A year of earnings may offset the higher upfront cost. That is unless you...
Well, two of your choices are previous schools of mine (though not for Structural). Speaking from a different (but related) field, I would say that the institution does matter but, given these are all good schools, I think the difference will be regional. A degree from Columbia will be...
IRStuff,
Except that all low-E glass uses silver. Or fluorinated tin oxide. But no aluminum.
Don't worry though, the silver still keeps the mindrays out.
cranky108
Please don't mention Solyndra, it gets my blood pressure up. No one I have ever met in the solar industry thought they stood a chance. Even in the years before the DOE investment, if you asked almost any well informed scientist/engineer in PV, they would have told you Solyndra was a...
It's a bit hard to answer your question as I'm not sure what you're looking for.
If you are asking what reduces the tranmission of light through glass, the most basic answer would be thickness, composition, and texture.
If you are asking about soda lime float glass specifically (i.e. window...
What is your end goal? Being a Mech E? Or doing something that combines your chemistry background and some engineering? As you said, this second option sounds a lot like materials.
To me your chemistry background would make you a strong candidate for a materials engineering position, but I...
Hello,
I use a Keithley 2400 sourcemeter to trace I-V curves for solar cells under illumination (the keithley sources voltage, measures current).
I've found that if the current compliance level for the Keithley is set much higher than the current I'm actually measuring, the I-V curve will have...
I like Mr168 asnwer the best.
I'm a tad different than most. I was highly mechanically disinclined as a child (actuall, still am), but but was a stand out student in the sciences. I thought I was going to be a chemistry major in college, but then my chemistry teacher told me about his college...
I would say I average 45. Never less than 40, rarely more than 50. On a handful of occasions in the last 5 years I've worked 70+ but I can't keep that up for long.
At least the way I read it, kontiki99 simply meant 'in a way a non-engineer would understand' and was suggesting the use of more univerisal language versus trade jargon.
...I think many people are going way too far in condemning your "attitude".
That being said, it can also be hard to judge someone's personality in an *interview*, so you need to be careful how you present yourself. And if it went wrong a bit here, maybe similar things are happening when you...
I don't know anything about your specific field, but a couple thoughts:
-A Master's while working full time does take some temporary sacrifices in your personal life. Be sure to include your significant other in the discussion (if such a person exists).
-In my experience, doing your Master's...
kurtp,
They are pricey, but I have had good experience with Columbia's distance program, through which they offer several degrees and certificates:
http://www.cvn.columbia.edu/cert.php
But as someone said before, many big schools (in the US)will have something like this. Roughly where are...
Sorry, a bit off topic from the OP:
"how many people on this board believe they would have got in and that it would have given them a legitimate leg up."
Get in? I did. Didn't go though. I did go to a school ranked higher in my field, although not as nearly as well regarded in general.
The...
While I pretty much agree that the way it described above is how the selection of inventors is practived, the actual legal framework (in the US) is a bit different from what is done in practice.
Now I'm not a lawyer, but I work with patent law regularly. The way the Patent Office describes who...
