Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. Grubbyky

    San Francisco Overpass Failure- Opportunity for Attention?

    csd72, do you think they are willing now?
  2. Grubbyky

    How can you prevent the failure of roads due to roots?

    Also, work with city/county zoning board to disallow trees close enough to the road to damage the pavement. It also depends on how big of trees you're dealing with.
  3. Grubbyky

    How can you prevent the failure of roads due to roots?

    Cut the trees down if they are in the R.O.W. continue cutting trees that might grow back from the existing root system.
  4. Grubbyky

    Engineering Education in the IT age

    I'm fresh from school. I used a computer model in one class for one project (EPAnet); we solved similar problems on paper first. We would have to write our own VB programs, or MathCAD, or Excel in order to solve problems. For the way I think, I have to write everything on paper first, then...
  5. Grubbyky

    Number of women in engineering

    Referring to the OP, and the barriers to women working in engineering. Schools are more than happy to accept women, and engineering students are happy to have women in their classes (I went to an engineering school, not a big univ.- we really wished there were more women engineering students.)...
  6. Grubbyky

    Where IS Engineering Going?

    Dozer: If I don't try to stay optimistic, I would probably have to go on some sort of anti-depressant- I don't want to do that. There are a lot of doom and gloom predictions, and to get a more accurate over all picture of the future there needs to be some optimism. The future will probably be...
  7. Grubbyky

    Where IS Engineering Going?

    A lot of postings in this thread focus on the poor work that has been produced in the past several years and the poor quality of work being produced now. In the next 5 years, there could be a greater focus on the quality of work and greater awareness of professionalism. This will cull out...
  8. Grubbyky

    What should EITs be doing?

    Is switching jobs fairly often acceptable? For example, I worked in a job for 4 mo, and I didn't see eye to eye with the company owner on a number of issues. (I think he saw PEs as just plan stampers, and that was his plan for me.) Then I took a job with a ready mix company to work as a...
  9. Grubbyky

    Mix In Place Sidewalks

    I imagine your client has some picture in their head of a bunch of kids stomping around barefoot in concrete as if they were making mud bricks. I don't think this is a good idea. Some people's skin is hypersensitive to cement, and before the concrete is well mixed, there can be higher...
  10. Grubbyky

    Magnesium Cement

    Civilperson, I work for a concrete producing division of a materials company. We really can't choose our producer for most work. Specifications for transportation projects here still call for "Dacotah" brand (used to be a state-owned plant, now owned by Grupo Cemento Chihuahua (sp?)). When...
  11. Grubbyky

    How many hours do you require of employees?

    One of the reasons I left my last job is extra hours expected EVERY WEEK with no extra pay or comp. time. I had numerous job offers- and my old employer struggles to find engineers. The funny thing is that the owner isn't even an engineer. I figure it must be hard to have an engineering...
  12. Grubbyky

    San Francisco Overpass Failure- Opportunity for Attention?

    Can we use the overpass collapse in San Francisco to direct attention to the infrastructure nation-wide that needs to be replaced? Sure, age and maintenance neglect didn't cause the failure, but it shows what happens when highways are unexpectedly out of commission.
  13. Grubbyky

    The engineering challanges of living with global warming

    Is it wrong to be excited about the prospect of the new, large, exciting projects addressed by sms? I recall reading that in the not-so-distant future, that the oceans will be pretty well fished out. Global warming can provide new habitat for these fish and maybe save seafood.
  14. Grubbyky

    pollution self correcting in the long run ??

    If pollution will self correct its self, then I've been wasting my time studying environmental engineering and working on environmental projects. We can kind of correct pollution with remediation and reclamation. (In other words, sweep this stuff under the carpet and hope no one finds it.)...
  15. Grubbyky

    Cellulose ethanol

    Why would ethanol companies' investors (corn growers) want to switch to ethanol from switch grass? The ethanol company would make higher profits, but the corn prices would crash. The main purpose people have invested in ethanol plants in the U.S. is that it provides more of a market for corn...
  16. Grubbyky

    How much CO2 are you emitting?

    Higher temperatures cause faster metabolism by aerobic and anaerobic bacteria which release carbon dioxide and methane. At least thats the trend I used in the design of waste water treatment plant components.
  17. Grubbyky

    What is sustainable development?

    I think the definition of sustainable devolopment is something like: Meeting today's needs without compromising the ability to meet future needs. The scope of sustainability generally includes social, economical, and environmental. I don't understand how anyone can hope for sustainable...
  18. Grubbyky

    Neil Cavuto û endless free energy from magnetic machine (Steorn)

    How about using ocean currents to turn a very large conducting coil in Earth's Magnetic field in order to have a virtually unlimited supply of electricity. I haven't heard anyone slinging this idea before, but after I just made it up, I thought it was ridiculous enough to be relevant to this...
  19. Grubbyky

    What should EITs be doing?

    FOETS, Regular or decaf? Also, would you care for a bagel along with that? If a request for coffee is the most rude thing I get in a day, it's a good day. Construction contractors in this town sometimes resort to physical violence; good thing I played (American) football in college.
  20. Grubbyky

    Are drawings needed anymore?

    I can only imagine the kind of look I would get if I hand a flash drive to a contractor when they ask for plans. They aren't going to buy AutoCAD to read drawings. You can't easily scale off of a pdf unless you print it. For civil work, paper is here to stay.

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top