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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. http://engineering.stackexchange.com
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misk94555
Apr 25, 2023 17:08
I come across the term "Responsible Engineer" when I look at engineering job descriptions on LinkedIn.
The job descriptions don't mention P.E. The jobs are in the US (not specific to a particular US state).
infinitesimal simplicio
Mar 26, 2015 00:36
A mathematician, a physicist and a engineer are asked by a student what the meaning of $$\int \frac{1}{dx}$$ is.

The mathematician says it is meaningless.

The physicist ponders it for a moment and wonders if there is some way to give it meaning.

The engineer says, "Hmmmm, I used to know how to do that."
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Oct 11, 2022 21:07
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Q: 2022 Community Moderator Election Results

V2BlastEngineering Stack Exchange's "graduation" election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: NMech will be joining the existing crew shortly. Wasabi and hazzey have already been serving as pro-tem moderators on the site since 2018. (Since this was the site's...

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V2Blast
Oct 3, 2022 20:14
Voting is now open for Engineering.SE's "graduation" election! Anyone with at least 150 reputation on the site can vote in the election. Make sure to select your preferred candidates by October 11!
V2Blast
Sep 19, 2022 20:22
Nominations are now open for Engineering.SE's "graduation" election. You can find the chat room for the election here:
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Sep 19, 2022 20:11
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Q: 2022 Community Moderator Election

CommunityThe 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page at ht...

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Sep 12, 2022 20:11
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Q: 2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

V2BlastEngineering Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2022-09-19. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is complete...

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Sep 10, 2022 05:38
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Q: Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2022

V2BlastSummary: Engineering Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on September 19th, 2022, as your “graduation” election! The timeline: On September 12, 2022, I'll post a question collection post on Meta, so that the community can post questions they'd like to see the candidate...

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Wasabi
May 4, 2020 16:25
The two sites will likely have quite a bit of overlap on questions about the choice/application of materials (i.e. "which material would be best for X, given Y"), but that's par for the course on the SE network.
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Air
Sep 2, 2015 18:14
Can I hire CableStay to do all my sketches?
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uhoh
Mar 21, 2019 11:04
When I was 5 years old, this is how I thought rockets were built; outdoors, with ladders.
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Ethan48
Mar 14, 2015 14:42
@hazzey Is that a depressing commentary on the social lives of engineers?
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Shalvenay
Jun 13, 2021 11:51
@uhoh also: I'm sure explosive bolts that use IHE (Insensitive High Explosives) are available nowadays, given the developments that have been made in that field
user41796
Feb 2, 2015 18:42
Woo hoo! We just went public for out beta.
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user41796
Jan 14, 2016 20:31
We should pick a less contentious topic. Like pizza.
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user41796
Jan 6, 2016 12:22
Today's Public Service Announcement - Community users can take out an spam post with a combined five or six spam flags on the post itself. So if you see spam on the site (any site!) flag it and get it cleared out.
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Trevor Archibald
Aug 21, 2015 18:54
Poor Jimmy Carter. He may kill the Guinea worm, but he couldn't kill Imperial units
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Air
Jun 1, 2015 19:12
So if anyone has had a feeling of suspense or anxiety or anything like that, relax, keep on doing what you're doing, it's cool.
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Air
Apr 21, 2015 23:37
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Air
Apr 16, 2015 20:00
@TrevorArchibald EnvE is what we inspire in lesser subdisciplines :P
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user41796
Mar 17, 2015 18:55
@hazzey "Math that engineers have forgot" is possibly more accurate
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user41796
Feb 19, 2015 16:01
If you haven't seen this before, it's a really, really good read. And it's very much apropos as we grow our community. It's long, but is well worth the time. shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html
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Trevor Archibald
Feb 17, 2015 15:36
And that's how the largest circus disaster in the world occurred
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Sam Weston
Feb 13, 2015 04:13
@hazzey As the saying goes, mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
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Trevor Archibald
Feb 13, 2015 03:28
And my axe of power swings wide and swiftly. Which as we engineers know, means a lot of force, with a large moment arm and high energy.
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Air
Feb 12, 2015 02:24
I... am not altogether certain we are all three of us talking about feces
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user41796
Jan 29, 2015 22:40
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user41796
Jan 29, 2015 15:32
@dcorking I'm fine with leaving it in place. Can be good for a site to have "tough but valuable" questions that take a while to get answered. I'd rather encourage well thought out answers rather than "Fastest Gun in the West" style answers. So it's a focus more on the why behind the answer to a particular question.
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EnergyNumbers
Jan 28, 2015 16:22
@jhabbott I wouldn't worry too much about unanswered questions at this point. They can be great hooks to draw in new experts. Find a good, proper, difficult unanswered question. Send a private beta invite to a relevant expert who you know, with a precis of the question, asking them if they'd like to join in and answer this question that no one else can.
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John H. K.
Jan 20, 2015 22:10
Yay, finally the beta is online. Lets grow a site! ; D
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hazzey
Apr 26, 2017 13:35
yro.slashdot.org/story/17/04/25/2129234/…
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Air
Dec 1, 2016 17:14
If you don't vote, you don't give any input to that system and it can't do its job :)
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Jodes
May 7, 2016 22:58
I just hope this site makes it past beta, it fills such a significant gap.
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hazzey
Apr 7, 2016 13:51
I'm disappointed people. I don't see any names that I recognize at this structural engineering conference that I am attending. Next year Illinois SEs?
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Air
Feb 23, 2016 22:00
@StackExchange Wow, that was a quick status-completed.
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theNamesCross
Dec 22, 2015 04:28
Im posting in chat so y'all cant downvote..;)
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Air
Dec 16, 2015 00:38
👷👷👷 ALL HAIL UNICODE CONSTRUCTION WORKER 👷👷👷
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user41796
Dec 4, 2015 19:46
In full disclosure, I don't really like the overly broad "how stuff works" type questions. They're looking for discussions and overly long essays-as-answers; neither of which fit in the Q&A format.
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Air
Aug 24, 2015 19:09
Yes, that Skunk Works traffic boost... all 5 of us
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Mats Granvik
Aug 1, 2015 11:07
Fluid flow animation:
http://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/
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Air
Jul 21, 2015 23:45
We hit the 6-month mark; magnesium confetti and zippo lighters for everybody!
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Wasabi
Mar 29, 2019 23:01
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Q: Is micro rebar a better way to reinforce concrete than rebar?

GrasperThis site claims that the small wires(twisted steel micro rebar) they created are a good replacement to a typical rebar concrete reinforcement if not even better. a reinforcement technology that could product provide quantifiably better resiliency, ductility and elasticity to concrete stru...

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Mark
Jun 30, 2015 19:51
Misread the question "Does having 2 engines together increase anything?" as "Does having 2 engineers together increase anything?" - that's an entirely different question.
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Air
Jun 18, 2015 23:35
2015 users! An arbitrarily significant number! Drinks are on me!
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Chris Mueller
Jun 15, 2015 21:34
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Q: What legal obligations does one's participation on Stack Exchange carry?

Chris MuellerThis question is motivated by a question which came up recently on engineering.SE: http://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3186/cracks-on-the-wall. It may be closed in the future so I will summarize. The user posted pictures of (very large) cracks in the wall of his house and asked the c...

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Trevor Archibald
May 13, 2015 21:32
One wonders why one might be so annoyed at one's usage of a third-person plural pronoun when one also uses the same word for second-person singular and plural pronouns, mightn't one?
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Trevor Archibald
May 7, 2015 18:06
wolframalpha.com/input/…
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hazzey
May 2, 2015 12:53
@TrevorArchibald Face it, you are living the engineering dream!
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Trevor Archibald
Apr 30, 2015 13:29
But these badges are gold!
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user41796
Apr 29, 2015 22:04
It's not like pokemon - you don't have to catch them all.
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