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n3nno6 | askengineers_train | 7.75 | [
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"content": "I'd argue that work to NOT provide you with a phone AND expect you to be reachable via phone...is totally unacceptable/unethical on their part. At that point? Who gives a fuck if it's \"normally\" ethical. They've already proven themselves to be shitstains. No way do I let the office install s... | true | [
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"content": "New job does not provide a work cell like my old one. Is it unethical to setup a google voice line to use for work? So my last job was at a big corporate robotics company in a controls engineer position. They provided an iphone to use exclusively for work. It was nice since I could separate my wor... | |
2n4x4l | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "Sign up for every Mileage or Hotel loyalty program you can and always add it to your reservations. Reap the extra rewards come vacation time. BTW, RIP any sort of long term relationships.",
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"content": "I just got my first offer since graduating... it's 2 years of training followed by 3-5 years of field engineering, international travel 100% of the time. Any advice? Is that as bad on the social life as it sounds?",
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t5ph8v | askengineers_train | 5 | [
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"content": "Well, that's probably an issue, especially since you specifically cite that there are mechanical property requirements. Welding is generally considered to be a special process, since you can't verify the results without destructive testing. Therefore, welding would require the use of a validated... | false | [
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"content": "Engineer who feels betrayed I work as a welding engineer for an aerospace parts manufacturer and have been running across this same issue since I started. When I qualify a weld procedure for weld joint and provide that qualified procedure for operations to weld to, it never is used. I have brought... | |
jxn6y4 | askengineers_train | 5.090909 | [
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"content": "I'm 5 years into my career, a senior engineer, and project manager at this point and I do the same thing. Just keep learning and moving forward. Not a big deal.",
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"content": "Feeling incompetent at internship I just started my first consulting internship a few days ago (civil/structural if relevant at all), am in my last year next year and I feel like I’m fumbling around so much. I’m asking basic questions so often and forgetting things I’ve learnt last year because I’... | |
zij22d | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "I'm going to agree with other posters here in that we can't tell from your question, OP, whether the ideal gas law is an appropriate way to solve the problem. I'm going to make some assumptions here; \"high school chemistry teacher\" makes me think that this is a question about the combustion of t... | true | [
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"content": "Years ago my high school chemistry teacher gave me zero points for using the ideal gas law to solve a problem involving burning of gasoline in an engine, stating that gasoline is a liquid not a gas. I thought gasoline is burned in gaseous form. Which one was right? My approach made the problem way... | |
ha3bd6 | askengineers_train | 6.5 | [
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"content": "Yes. You'd be marketable in system and controls engineering positions—within the automotive industry—if you directed your studies to high-level languages and algorithms. You could work for a medium engineering team (10-30) consisting of embedded software (firmware and platform), electrical (circu... | true | [
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"content": "Mechanical engineer thinking about going back and majoring in comp sci. Does anyone have this combo and have a career using both? Hello, I have work as a mechanical engineer, but I've always had the thought of pursuing a double major in compsci. I settled on mechanical engineering because I was fu... | |
r4wafj | askengineers_train | 4 | [
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"content": "It's not a shart, it's a 2-phase release.",
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"content": "Funny: How has engineering changed your everyday vocabulary? I'm a Mechanical Engineer and I can tell y'all that a lot of engineering terms are a part of my general vocabulary. Like when I'm talking about investments with my engineer friends, we talk about \"entropy\" of investments e.g. cash i... | |
7sodsw | askengineers_train | 4 | [
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"content": "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K Dick Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson. Besides Martian colonization potentially happening in our lifetime, it deals with many ethical side effects of engineering and settling. The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov Borges, On Exactitude in Science (prefer... | true | [
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"content": "What non-engineering books should engineers and engineering students read? I've just started getting active within this sub, but have seen questions about what to do with spare time, how to better network, how to do better on interviews, etc. A few common themes have emerged, such as developing y... | |
sha8bx | askengineers_train | 6.025 | [
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"content": "Bezos is an electrical engineer.....",
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"content": "Who is the richest engineer you know, and what do they do?",
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fzvsv2 | askengineers_train | 7 | [
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"content": "The test has a 70% pass rate and a 30% failure rate for first time takers. It's doable but you should study a bit for sure. The exam gives you a detailed list of topics that will be asked about. Be sure you know exactly what to study so you don't waste time!",
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"content": "How hard is the FE exam? (Texas, USA if it matters). Be the time I'm ready to take the FE, I will have been an engineering student for about 6 years (not because I failed classes, but because I've been trying to protect my GPA: 3.59). I know the FE exam is 6+ hours, but I wanted to ask you guys w... | |
p5pwzg | askengineers_train | 7.8 | [
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"content": "Do you like to travel to uninteresting places? Applications or field engineer.",
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"content": "Any job that doesn't require you to stare at the computer all day? I am getting migraine by staring at the computer all day for my current job, reliability engineer. My background is mechanical engineering. Is there any job that doesn't require me to work on the computer all day?",
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3hxizh | askengineers_train | 3.333333 | [
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"content": "I graduated with the lowest gpa in my class (2.52, which is .02 above eligible), because I was foolishly concerned more about my social life and gaming than education. It was not easy finding a job, and I almost wound up at Radio Shack. Instead, two days before I was supposed to start there, I r... | true | [
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"content": "To those who gained their degree while doing the bare minimum to pass/ near bottom of their class, how has your career turned out? How much do you regret not working harder? I might graduate next year with likely either a high 2:2 or scraping a 2:1 by the skin of my teeth (plz god). I have been ... | |
jipepy | askengineers_train | 3.666667 | [
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"content": "Heavy deadlifts and throw in some squats while you're at it.",
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"content": "Does anyone have any proposals on fixes to the human back? I could really use an upgrade",
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8qds34 | askengineers_train | 5.8 | [
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"content": "Personally the degree pushed me and taught me to think a certain way that helps me problem solve. That and the fundamental knowledge it gives you certainly make things easier.",
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"content": "Do you think you could do your job (and what is it) without the degree required and just some job training?",
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su98g1 | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "A laptop better than you need to do the job and all the software you need already installed and ready to go.",
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"content": "What would you like to get when you start with a new company? I’m working in our onboarding experience program. Is there any branded swag you’ve gotten that left an impression, or some procedure you think every company should follow when bringing on a new engineer?",
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sq8q3z | askengineers_train | 7.307692 | [
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"content": "Not mercury",
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"content": "If cost wasn't a consideration, what would he the best metal to make a car from?",
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ppcis3 | askengineers_train | 3.75 | [
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"content": "Have you held a tape measure or ruler out to eyeball out a cubic foot? A cubic foot is actually pretty big. Or measured what appears to be a small moving box. Also, I've noticed in myself that my impression of a milk jug was made when I was a kid and things were a lot bigger. There's also the we... | false | [
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"content": "Has anyone ever proven the cubic feet to gallon conversion? I hate this conversion. Generally, every other conversion I use makes sense. I can picture 3.78 L in one gallon, 200ish feet per side for a square acre, etc. Then there's this b\\*stard. You're telling me in one cubic foot, I can fit alm... | |
xmuhev | askengineers_train | 7.714286 | [
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"content": "I think there are a couple problems here from an overall perspective: 1) the refrigerator isn't always on so the heating will come in bursts 2) the energy going to the floor mat still end up in the room - so you aren't solving that AC problem. 3) Refrigerators just don't output that much power. M... | true | [
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"content": "Would it be reasonable to create a system where the waste heat from a refrigerator is run into either a floor mat or connected to a heated floor system to make better use of that energy? Refrigerators require a way to vent off all the heat it generates/moves. It seems to me that it would be better... | |
eh691t | askengineers_train | 4.695652 | [
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"content": "Have you considered 3D printing as a hobby?",
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"content": "Being bored out of my head My friends in electrical engineering are always doing these fun projects at home with arduinos and what not. My friends in computer science are writing amazing, functional programs to kill time. I as a mechanical engineering student have nothing I can do (at least that ... | |
cn2rjb | askengineers_train | 5.068182 | [
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"content": "It's not a protected term and it makes them sound important.",
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"content": "Why do \"audio engineers\" get to be called engineers? I never understood this. To me, this makes as much sense as calling a duck a grilled cheese sandwich.",
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rud14e | askengineers_train | 3.363636 | [
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"content": "My last job I was a \"project engineer\" at a large paper products company. I was under the impression that I would be scoping out capital projects to improve the line / facilities. It turns out they were really looking for a maintenance engineer and just ended up baby sitting contractors to compl... | true | [
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"content": "Why did you leave your last job?",
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gkz0db | askengineers_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "I may be in the minority, but I view the two very differently. I am biased as well since I have an MS. An MS is nearly required if you want to do any high level R&D. I was actually in the minority with \"only\" an MS and not a PhD at my job. In my on-site interview, I had to present a trimmed down... | true | [
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"content": "Should I get a Master's of Science (MS) in mechanical engineering or a Master's of Engineering (ME) in mechanical engineering? I recently graduated with a Bachelor's in biomedical engineering and I was planning to go straight into industry, but I'm looking at graduate school options now due to the... | |
oyey6i | askengineers_train | 4.344828 | [
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"content": "Do what you’re interested in. I don’t see why electrical would have better options. Mechanical is needed in every industry.",
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"content": "Girls in Mechanical Engineering? im a rising senior in high school, interested in majoring in mechanical engineering but my dad says the job market is bad and its really hard for a girl to get a job in mechanical engineering... he told me \"you're going to work really hard for a four year bachelor... | |
446vvr | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "Here's a list.",
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"content": "Train engines are basically diesel generators with electric motors, is this design used in other vehicles as well? Basically the above, I'm specifically wondering whether the huge earth movers at mines are ever built this way and I'm also riding in a bus to work atm wondering if city buses are eve... | |
tlw4gz | askengineers_train | 6.5 | [
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"content": "Monel - for oxygen rich environments AL7075-T73511 - for space grade AL that needs to be stronger than 6061",
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"content": "What material X is typically or best used in Y application? Hi /AskEngineers, I'm looking to expand my materials knowledge and was just wondering based on your field and experience, what have you come to know as a material X that's typically used in Y situation? It can be a specific application or... | |
fp9oog | askengineers_train | 7 | [
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"content": "Not necessarily a fidget, but I keep my shame on my desk lol. Broken eye bolt, that cost a $60k shop error (no injuries thank god). Broken fin from an electric motor, because what it was rotating interfered with it. A shaft that a wire rope almost cut clean through on a hoist, when the rope left t... | true | [
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"content": "What are your favorite engineering-related fidgets? I love having an assortment of good fidgets on my desk, especially for all my virtual meetings now. When I worked at a nuclear power designer I was given a super small pneumatic piston that made a perfect fidget (I sadly donated it to a co-worker... | |
7x7o6f | askengineers_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "I think a few people have mentioned it but Site Engineers and Project Engineers for Contractors. You are out on site for a good portion of your time managing the actual construction efforts and providing advice. I'm a Site Engineer and I spend all of my time out on site managing quality, program... | true | [
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"content": "What type of engineers work outside of an office?",
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mzxsg1 | askengineers_train | 3.6 | [
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"content": "Drawings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_drawing",
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"content": "For major projects like a skyscraper or a nuclear power plant that require huge crews of construction workers that may not have the same education background, how do engineers explain what to do?",
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ritnn8 | askengineers_train | 8 | [
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"content": "My company computer camera is disabled. It's a whole procedure to turn it on.",
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"content": "Interviewer not turning on camera for zoom interview Would you find it odd if the person interviewing you doesn’t turn on their camera? The last two rounds of interviews at a company I’ve had the interviewer not turn on their camera. I personally find it a bit weird",
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d80gkq | askengineers_train | 5.5 | [
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"content": ">Old engineers are bored and might want something to flex their engineering muscles on. Is this is a thing? My fellow older engineers are always learning/tinkering on something.",
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"content": "How About a Monthly r/AskEngineers Challenge ? Young engineers need more experience. Old engineers are bored and might want something to flex their engineering muscles on. We all need more interdisciplinary experience. So here is the idea: - First week of each month is the proposal period.... | |
oprqx1 | askengineers_train | 5.692308 | [
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"content": "I reviewed a few bridge inspection reports that were reviews of someone else’s bridge inspections haha! Bridge Engineer - Manager",
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"content": "In a single sentence, describe what you accomplished at work today In layman's terms, the work you actually did today (or the last day you worked). Not a general description of your job, and obviously nothing confidential or identifying. Please list your discipline and industry. My job satisfac... | |
w5jvxm | askengineers_train | 5.333333 | [
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"content": "This doesn't even sound like a true Project Engineer or Project Manager job in my opinion. Do you have a Budget, Schedule, and Work Breakdown Schedule for each Project? Do you have a Scope of Work for each project? Do you have frequent meetings for each Project? Are your projects truly projects... | true | [
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"content": "Is all manufacturing engineering the same? I graduated from college just over a year ago with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering technology and found myself working in a steel mill. I show up and they tell me I am going to be a project manager. 6 months in and I'm managing about 7 elect... | |
6mmice | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "It's not at all what I thought it would be like while in school, but thank the lord it's not. I'm up into management now, and it's been an interesting new challenge. I miss the ability to jump into the weeds and get dirty on projects as an engineer, but it's a lot of fun being the guy steering the... | false | [
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"content": "How satisfied are you with your engineering career and is it what you expected it to be when you first started?",
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rof1rr | askengineers_train | 4.666667 | [
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"content": "I started a junk removal business, an event photo booth, and am becoming a notary soon to cover the gaps. I hate being an engineer though, so this amalgamation is just a way to escape my regular job hopefully this summer.",
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"content": "Do you work a side job? So 2021 was a funky year for me. I changed jobs, only to be laid off, and my new job came about 10 days later but it’s a fair drop in salary. I like the workplace and what we’re doing so I’d like to give them at least a year or two of service, but the money isn’t where it n... | |
fld4tn | askengineers_train | 3.909091 | [
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"content": "Concidering an sitting in a toilet browsing Reddit? Not bad",
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"content": "Be honest. How productive has WFH been for you? What kind of work did you do? Are you finding it easier to get things done? Harder? Depends on the task? If/when things go back to normal, do you think you'd work from home more than before?",
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xhaw4e | askengineers_train | 4.5 | [
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"content": "Also - radiative sky cooling! Fascinating concept - take your return feed to the chiller (basically warm water). Run it through a pipe, like a solar thermal panel. Coat the surface of the panel in special nano magic that shifts the output wavelength to the far ends of the infrared spectrum. Tailor... | true | [
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"content": "What do you see as the next significant shift in energy efficiency? I will say that led lighting was shocking to me. Do you see another impactful consumer product? Is there anything on the grid level that will save energy? I have alway had a gamie interest in UHVDC retrofits for power transmission... | |
eur33m | askengineers_train | 3.176471 | [
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"content": "Surprise telephone interview with well-known training company, pulled over to side of road and talked for an hour. They were interested. I was interested. All great until we get into how payment works. It scales with the difficulty of the class. Teach entry level certifications, get $30 an hour. ... | false | [
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"content": "Have you ever felt that the company was the one that failed the interview? I've seen lots of posts here about interviews where the candidate felt that that the interview went badly, they did X or Y wrong, and wanted feedback on how to improve in the future. How about the opposite? Has anyone had ... | |
9w4mch | askengineers_train | 4.25 | [
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"content": "A mud pump from an oil rig.",
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"content": "If I needed to pump 12 gpm of water mixed with a LOT of rocky sediment directly upwards for more than half a mile, what equipment would be best suited for the task? So imagine that I'm pumping water that has a large amount of rocky sediment mixed into it, and I need to get it up a very tall buildi... | |
3k0r6h | askengineers_train | 3.142857 | [
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"content": "About 8 years ago, working for a media company (a TV channel featuring user-submitted but heavily \"curated\" content, owned by someone who may have gotten elected president but the electoral college went the other way) trying to make a social site that would be so big, it would reach \"MySpace-sc... | false | [
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"content": "What are the worst office politics you've encountered as an engineer? Comic, tragic, convoluted...(what was the issue, who were the perps, what were the stakes :). Thanks!",
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kl1xv1 | askengineers_train | 7 | [
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"content": "I'd look at acid etching or scarification. This is a pdf that goes into the pros and cons of various methods of creating a non-slip surface on concrete: https://www.concreteconstruction.net/_view-object?id=00000153-8b70-dbf3-a177-9f7990b70000 My first choice would acid etching, there is murati... | true | [
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"content": "What is the most cost effective method to make concrete slip resistant when wet? The motive behind this question is to reduce the number of injuries occurring beside the pool. Using anything different than concrete is impossible for several reasons. So I am bound to find a way to make concrete sli... | |
b46l2e | askengineers_train | 5 | [
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"content": "Many different ways, but in your case it’s dependent on the fact the two parts have a gasket and the pan is not responsible for much of any load.",
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"content": "How do engineers determine torque values for fasteners? For example, I have to torque my oil pan fasteners to 70 inch pounds. How do they determine this value?",
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revcjd | askengineers_train | 3.4 | [
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"content": "Yea, 9-5 is for the birds. I can’t even fathom how people can go through their entire lives as such. But the all mighty dollar dictates a great deal…",
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"content": "What positions require engineers to work in shifts? Soon to be Mechanical (Automotive) Engineer. I find the 9-5 routine to be horrendous, so I am looking for potential alternatives. A quick Google doesn't tell me anything conclusive, apart from Quora telling me about manufacturing engineers that... | |
whr0fr | askengineers_train | 5.378378 | [
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"content": "Well in the town I'm working, when I piss in a urinal it actually makes the water more clear.",
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"content": "The US is criticized for the poor state of its road, bridge, and rail infrastructure. How are we doing in terms of water mains and our electrical grid?",
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twk6m3 | askengineers_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "Don't work for free. Don't normalize this shitty behavior. ​ Have a nice day :)",
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"content": "How do we feel about technical presentations/take home assignments in the engineering job interview process? I've noticed these becoming increasingly popular for mid/senior level engineering positions that I have been interviewing for and I'm personally not a fan. I feel that an impromptu techni... | |
2uv827 | askengineers_train | 5.5 | [
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"content": "Especially with mcmaster carr listing deraillers in their catalog.",
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"content": "Why do we not see a large number of train derailments or delays from simple pranks or accidents? https://i.imgur.com/xehGkTQ.jpg I saw that on /r/OSHA , it was a joke BTW, but it raised a question I've thought of before \"Isn't it really easy to cause an accident to damage trains?\". I mean a sim... | |
mras2x | askengineers_train | 4.4 | [
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"content": "Tell him you want a refund.",
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"content": "How difficult is it going to be for a \"Corona batch\" pass out to get a job and earn respect from their peers? The Dean of my college straight up said that our batch will probably be at the bottom of preference list for most recruiters cause passing exams etc is so much easier online (Google sear... | |
a4ojts | askengineers_train | 3.333333 | [
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"content": "Yup. Any lift tool I design needs a minimum FS of 5:1. I do a write up, list my assumptions, FBD, material properyies, and then equations. Then they're checked by another engineer. Usually I don't have a problem of meeting the FS.",
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"content": "Engineers, do you ever actually draw free body diagrams at work? If so, what for?",
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x3gxx5 | askengineers_train | 3.75 | [
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"content": "Q-bits and quantum computing. That's shits nuts.",
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"content": "What do you think of engineering/science that is the closest to magic? I'm trying to determine what is the most unexplainable, confusing pheneomons out there that we know of yet are unexplainable in the fields of engineering/science. What is the most shrouded in mysteries waiting to be discovered ... | |
bauf7z | askengineers_train | 4.5 | [
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"content": "Bend some paper clips into L shapes. Attach them to the bottom of two meter sticks so that they are pointing outward from the skinny non printed edge. Use your skinny scoops to grab your phone.",
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"content": "Followup: I dropped my phone into a deep place. Hi Reddit! CONTEXT: Posted this about a week ago and I've been trying to get it out since then. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/b74l6i/solutions_to_retrieving_objects_stuck_in_a_deep/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share My phon... | |
txmx36 | askengineers_train | 3.333333 | [
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"content": "No. Two things: First, automation is garbage for a lot of manual labor. It's use case is actually pretty narrow and is often only supplementary within a larger manual labor process. Second, you always need to support automation with staff for monitoring, repair, design, programming, etc. There... | true | [
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"content": "Do you think mass unemployment due to automation and AI is going to be a problem, and, if so, what should we as a society do about it? Will people be able to train for new jobs as quickly as they lose their old jobs? Will their new jobs then be lost? Is just providing cash such as a Universal Ba... | |
as8q5g | askengineers_train | 5.4 | [
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"content": "In addition to what others have said, I think another good aspect is being able to see the bigger picture and strategic goals of the business, and taking that into consideration to what you are doing.",
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"content": "What does it mean to be a “good” engineer, and how do you develop yourself to become one? I am currently a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering, and I am wondering how to develop myself to become a “good” engineer; what does it take to do so, or what type of mindset is necessary to do well... | |
87y3qy | askengineers_train | 7.8 | [
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"content": "Automotive engineer here. I travel a lot.",
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"content": "What type of engineers travel the most?",
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w2jt9f | askengineers_train | 3.555556 | [
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"content": "I have two side gigs, I moonlight on the local ambulance, and am a volunteer fire fighter. Both give me the satisfaction of helping people, and the ambulance reminds me that I can't make the income I want without working my desk job, and keeps me from going as crazy working a desk job. And the am... | false | [
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"content": "Does anyone have a job they feel actually helps people or contributes significant good to the world? If so, what do you do?",
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zij22d | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "Neither. But it depends.",
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"content": "Years ago my high school chemistry teacher gave me zero points for using the ideal gas law to solve a problem involving burning of gasoline in an engine, stating that gasoline is a liquid not a gas. I thought gasoline is burned in gaseous form. Which one was right? My approach made the problem way... | |
mlg51k | askengineers_train | 3.329032 | [
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"content": "Not every problem can be solved by reversing the polarity.",
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"content": "What engineering stereotypes in movies and TV do you hate? I hate when they have an engineer is just an encyclopedia of tech specs. I was watching some show and they were trying to get into a car, the engineer character says \"the 2008 dodge..... Has a mechanism 2.5 inches under the door handle. J... | |
otycly | askengineers_train | 3.166667 | [
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"content": "I honestly wouldn't do anything differently. A few years working in an aerospace machine shop, and doing the FSAE program, were great. If there's a deficiency I often see in new engineers (including myself) it's being able to communicate clearly and concisely. But, that's not really a job offer ... | false | [
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"content": "If you were to go back to college, what skills would you learn to give you an advantage in landing a job?",
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4vtfei | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "what kinds of making are in your skill set, or are things you'd like to learn? woodworking, welding, machining, sewing, electronics, knitting, baking, ...",
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"content": "What is a good DIY, relatively inexpensive, bday gift for an engineer? One of my closest friends is a civil engineer and is having a bday soon! I want to be able to make her something really awesome, but do not have many ideas. Just thought some of you would have some good input on what I could ma... | |
ejzugo | askengineers_train | 3.8 | [
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"content": "IMO the top three are 1. Modern object-oriented programming with intros to data structures, data analysis, and machine learning. Not simply hacking together frankencode for whatever MATLAB homework you happen to be doing, which is what most students today probably end up doing. 1. Statistics — u... | true | [
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"content": "Engineers, what other subjects should be taught in school to engineers that isn’t an engineering course? What engineering subjects are over emphasized? When looking back to your college education and or seeing what your future college education withholds, what courses/subjects do you think should ... | |
bhkq7n | askengineers_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "After 4 years' experience, I leave it off. I'd rather have another line or two to show off my experience or skills in my resume. I only list my degree and school, but even that might not be optimal.",
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"content": "How important is your GPA after graduation? I'm about 3 semesters away from graduation (BSEE). My GPA has slowly been slipping away. I started with a 3.67 and it has fallen to a 3.08. I expect it to fall a little more after finals next week. I don't think I'm stupid I'm just not a good student. ... | |
972w7o | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "Supersoakers filled with acid, sprayed from the bottom up. Or thermite, over the whole thing. Or, build a crib at the base, then dig a 200 foot hole underneath, fire the explosive bolts on the crib, drop the tower straight down, fill the dirt back in. You'll end up with roughly 1 tower's worth ... | true | [
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"content": "How to drop a 200' radio tower? Interesting project here. Looking at clever ways to demo a 200' tall radio tower... aside from bringing in a taller crane and dismantling. Typically one might use a gin pole to dismantle section by section and lower but there is some question about the integrity o... | |
psfz4w | askengineers_train | 5.642857 | [
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"content": "ITT: 5-10yr experienced engineers lurking that need to ask for a raise.",
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"content": "I'm curious about the percentage of people that are 25 years of age and what is your career looking like at this age. Salary, work location and years of experience wise.... Doesn't have to be 25 years of age! I'm just curious because I'm 25 myself and I'm moving out to Austin next month for a new ... | |
d2f5z8 | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "You probably want to use Paint.net",
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"content": "How much MS Paint do you use at your job? Just curious. Yes I know Visio, Lucidchart, etc. exist. They also cost money. For myself, as a mechanical engineer, I occasionally do small interconnection diagrams for prototypes in Paint as well as occasional explainers (e.g. taking a screenshot from S... | |
nppfev | askengineers_train | 6.814815 | [
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"content": "This has already happened with the Nissan Leaf more than doubling battery capacity since the car was introduced in 2011. The price of a new car has increased, but it hasn't doubled, so the older cars with smaller batteries are somewhat devalued. However, check out that timeline: 10 year old cars h... | true | [
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"content": "Will Electric Vehicles hold their value? I'm not in the automotive industry so I'm happy to be corrected on this but won't EV's depreciate in value faster than your conventionally powered vehicle? When looking for a car I consider what the resale value will be in a couple of years and certain mod... | |
bt3mz6 | askengineers_train | 3.666667 | [
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"content": "if you added a redundant solar panel, you would drive up the cost and size of each sat. failure of the panel is probably most likely to happen during launch or deployment, when wires/connectors are being shaken/unfolded. so maybe because you have no panel redundancy, some launches will only succee... | false | [
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"content": "SpaceX just tweeted “Starlink satellites are equipped with one solar array instead of two, minimizing potential points of failure”. How is that more beneficial than using 2 arrays in case one of them fails?",
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12uzde | askengineers_train | 7 | [
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"content": "The Civil Engineers i worked for had really full mornings with many projects on the go, followed by a card game at lunch, and either some surveys or meetings in the afternoon. about half the time they would still be working for some time after i punched out. *EDIT*: No idea why anyone downvoted th... | false | [
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"content": "What is your average day like as an engineer? Where has college taken you as far as jobs as an engineer? What does your average day consist of in your field of engineering? I'm an engineering student in a technical high school. I've taken Introduction to Engineering Design, Robotics w/ BOE bot, An... | |
asqh5s | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "people are people.",
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"content": "In your career, is working on an engineering team as bad as group projects in school? I feel that no matter the circumstances, I have always ran into bad teammates in group projects while in school. I was wondering if in your experience, once you transition into a career with an engineering compan... | |
w0j2ko | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "if the primary goal is a digital backup, then there are many good document scanners available on your phone. they re-project and flatten the photo, and are also becoming quite competent at converting hand written text, numbers, equations to concrete digital encodings, as well. if you're looking f... | true | [
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"content": "I am an engineer. I always go with large notebooks because I constantly draw something. Should I buy an ipad to create drawings, solve various problems? Tell me, is it convenient to use the ipad? And what applications are there for creating drawings, solving math problems, etc.?",
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gbefix | askengineers_train | 3.142857 | [
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"content": "In IT, we have RFC 1149 and a number of related updated standards as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) document. It was originally created as an April Fool’s joke.",
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"content": "What is the weirdest standard you have encountered that made absolutely no sense? Basically what it says on the tin, what is the absolute weirdest thing you have seen make it into a standard? My favourite one is a military standard, or MILSPEC (can't remember which one) that stipulated a specific... | |
eosecc | askengineers_train | 4.5 | [
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"content": "An actual data point for you. I accepted 3 different job offers coming out of school. The first was senor year at winter break. The job was okay but it was a job. Accepted. Got a better offer around spring break. Accepted that one and backed out of the first. Got a better offer closer to gradua... | true | [
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"content": "I was given a job offer by my internship but I have 2 companies that want to talk closer to graduation The title says most of it. But I will be graduating in May and I received a job offer from my internship. Should I cut my job search short and accept this offer when I already have 2 companies th... | |
g70ot3 | askengineers_train | 5.2 | [
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"content": "Yes. I absolutely hated school. I hated high school, and college sucked too. Once I hit my junior year and started having to suffer through real engineering classes, it was a struggle not to give up and change majors. I had zero interest in learning. All I cared about was the degree. I thought, s... | true | [
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"content": "Did any of you hate engineering school but now enjoy working as an engineer?",
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c4g179 | askengineers_train | 7 | [
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"content": "Wearable medical devices.",
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"content": "What project can a Mechanical Engineer, a Biomedical Engineer, and a Computer Engineer do together?",
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jvumhe | askengineers_train | 3.666667 | [
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"content": "Two immediately come to mind: “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society” by Jared Diamond. (It takes on a whole new meaning now.) **This if I had to pick one. “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni. (A bit overused in teamwork sessions, but an easy read with lessons th... | false | [
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"content": "What’s your favorite non-fiction book? Whether it’s programming, electronics, mechanics, physics, math, or something non technical like leadership/management - as an engineer, what’s the one book you’re most thankful for having read?",
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ddwsyk | askengineers_train | 3.666667 | [
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"content": "They likely recommended a hemisphere or bulbous shape because it's used on ships. But that's due to efficiency. It would work as a roof, but the extra construction difficulty wouldn't be justified. A traditional gable roof would work fine. There might be an increased use of metal roofing mat... | false | [
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"content": "Which shape would be able to withstand the largest amount of force when dropped top-first into water? I’m not an engineer and only took one semester of physics at uni, but I’m trying to design some basic roofing for a writing project taking place in a world where rain falls all at once (in flat sh... | |
cy6myd | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "My husband is a software engineer; he does come home and talk about his job to decompress sometimes and I just listen because that’s what he needs, I don’t always have to fully understand what he is talking about (bless him though, he tries).",
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"content": "Engineers who are in a (happy) relationship/marriage, do you talk to your SO about your job? Especially if they are not in a technical field? Besides talking about work dynamics and giving high level explanations, do you get into (some) details about what you do? I can understand giving a brief e... | |
tzdzl7 | askengineers_train | 4 | [
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"content": "I had something similar. A huge group of people were all interviewing all day long. (Latge automotive OEM, college recruitment) It was a series of scenarios. One scenario was that I had to get a wind tunnel test scheduled by a certain date. But the tunnel manager was all booked up. Basically, the... | true | [
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"content": "Is this normal for an engineering interview? I am a senior Industrial Engineering student (graduating in the Summer) and I made it to the second round of interviews with a small-ish privately held company. In the first round, I was asked about my experience and general background. I was prepared ... | |
nasu8f | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "/r/AskEngineers Is this.... some form of question?",
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"content": "I want to shout this from the rooftops, to all the professional subs: applying to jobs and grad school is not like applying to college. You are not one of a zillion high school seniors applying for one of many indistinguishable freshman slots. There is no Common App. The things you did in High Sch... | |
pjb9l7 | askengineers_train | 7 | [
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"content": "Buy a corkscrew from Walmart and then return it.",
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"content": "Need help removing an object from a tight space. Hello smart people. I need help removing an object from a tight space. I searched on Google for an answer and saw some similar posts from this subreddit, so I hope this is ok. My girlfriend accidently inserted the foot of a stand into the wrong sid... | |
rs7d2b | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "Way more stressed in school. Work is a walk in the park by comparison (mechanical engineering degree to mechanical design & project engineer).",
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"content": "On a scale of 1 to 10, how stressed are you at work and how stressed were you in engineering school? It obviously depends on the day but on average how do you feel?",
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9vlexj | askengineers_train | 4.586207 | [
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"content": "I'll answer blimps. Dirigibles. With today's lightweight materials, using other inert gases, and overall tons of improvements in the aerospace industry, blimps could easily make a comeback for local or commuter public travel. I'm my opinion. Maybe this answer isn't what you are looking for, but i... | false | [
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"content": "Similar to AC/DC power, what industry-wide choices did we have to make? What would things be like today if we had gone the other way?",
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v6rw65 | askengineers_train | 5.625 | [
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"content": "Is it a swamp cooler?",
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"content": "Is this invention really feasible? AirDisc claims include being able to cool a room from 32°C to 16°C in about an hour and using only about 10% (150W) of the usual aircon unit power demand (which she gives as about 1500W). Several interviews with the inventor are available on the internet. Here ... | |
ih9zcr | askengineers_train | 5.444444 | [
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"content": "Anything goes with recruiters, especially if you’re not desperate. Just know that if you ask they’re probably going to use it to bait you into getting on a call with them.",
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"content": "I keep getting LinkedIn messages about job opportunities from recruiters, is it rude to ask how much it pays right away?",
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qcrbgl | askengineers_train | 5.5 | [
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"content": "I come from a plastic product development background so I've been interested in things different from what I've done in my career. I've been playing the following: Turing Complete: It is a computer science based puzzle game where you start with basic logic circuits and work your way up to buildi... | true | [
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"content": "“The Incredible Machine” is a classic game. What engineering/puzzle games have you enjoyed? Booting up Sierra’s “The Incredible Machine” as a kid in 1995 is definitely one of the reasons I’m pursuing this field today. For those unfamiliar with the game, it’s based on constructing varying series’ o... | |
gna76s | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "I was literally a machine builder/assembler for a year and have had two engineering jobs since. Technician work will be fine.",
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"content": "Will taking a technician job pigeonhole me from getting engineering jobs in the future? I'm interviewing for a field engineering job today but the description just sounds like a field technician for HVAC systems. The pay is 23.00 per hour with overtime and bonuses which they say comes out to 48,00... | |
qoks0m | askengineers_train | 4 | [
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"content": "1982-Final year physics project. We climbed up onto the roof of the physics building and installed a hand-built dipole antenna, ran coax down the side of the building into the lab where we built a discrete logic board to capture signals from the UOSAT weather satellite and stored them as DTMF on a... | true | [
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"content": "What cool short projects did you do during your degree? Keen to hear what cool engineering projects people have done during their degrees or as personal projects. Looking for ideas for short (complete in a few hours or days) projects for engineering students. Ideally aimed at first year students t... | |
om87j0 | askengineers_train | 5.285714 | [
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"content": "Finish the apprenticeship and apply to each and every engineering job that comes across your desk. Work right now is a bit tight, but it is still available. Good luck!",
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"content": "Should I complete my trade apprenticeship or abandon it for an engineering job? short summary of my situation: - graduated late 2019 w/ BSc Electrical Engineering (not great GPA, no previous engineering experience) - couldn't find work/COVID shutdown forced me to look for work outside of enginee... | |
gy4gbz | askengineers_train | 5.6 | [
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"content": "What area of civil engineering do you work in? When I was 3 years into my current job in land development (site servicing and grading) I certainly felt slower than many of my peers. There’s kind of an art to grading a site and it’s the kind of thing that comes with experience. My manager was good ... | false | [
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"content": "Engineer working too slow I have been in civil engineering for 3 years. My first company complained that I worked too slow and I need to be more efficient. Now this job, my boss is hinting that I am working too slow. Background: As more I am into engineering, I realized most supervisors will ... | |
bblyzj | askengineers_train | 3 | [
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"content": "I've used McMaster before and other vendors that have 3d content available. But I usually end up making my own. I almost always end up having to modify it. Internally we have massive feature libraries for our plastic components. Locks, cavities etc. I use them quite a bit, but almost always end up... | false | [
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"content": "Engineers, what library do you use for the pieces you need in a cad design or do you make every part?",
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r0w4l5 | askengineers_train | 4.666667 | [
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"content": "Yup. Gotta tell em it's my last day.",
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"content": "You win the lottery for 200 million dollars tonight, do you report to work tomorrow? Why or why not? Is your passion for engineering enough to keep you going?",
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ym7yuz | askengineers_train | 8 | [
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"content": "Refrigeration",
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"content": "Climate Conscious Engineers: where do you work? Just wondering if there are any climate conscious engineers out there and what you do? Myself, a number of my colleagues and friends in engineering highlight climate and water scarcity as key issues moving forward, but work in industries doing litt... | |
3l4w1z | askengineers_train | 7 | [
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"content": "I gave this to my fiance a couple of years ago as a joke",
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"content": "Any general tips or advice for dating an engineer? This seems like an appropriate place to ask :D Serious answers appreciated but Jokes are also welcome :P",
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bt2g5x | askengineers_train | 3.75 | [
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"content": "My school's career fair would not allow you entry. That's part of the deal, they put on this event, find companies to fill the booths, as a service to the tution-paying students of the university. Your mileage may vary.",
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"content": "For those engineers who recruited: If your company Omly goes to School A's career fair, but not school B, and a student from school B goes to school A's career fair to talk to you. Do you think this would hurt that students chances of a call back, increase them, or nothing? Basically in the title,... | |
wlfyp9 | askengineers_train | 4 | [
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"content": "It's stupid to never reach the point where you lose respect for managers.",
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"content": "Is it usual to get to a point in your career where you no longer respect management? Hi Everyone. When I was younger I had an intrinsic respect for my managers. I was young and inexperienced and they were experienced and could teach me things. It’s obvious in this scenario why their opinions matte... | |
pvtynn | askengineers_train | 7.2 | [
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"content": "Yes. C++",
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"content": "Have you ever missed a job opportunity or ruined a meeting because you didn't know a foreign language? Hello guys. This is a very important question. Where I live people hate learning different languages, I believe this is a stupid idea because if we want to make a living of what we study we need ... | |
41ctcg | askengineers_train | 5.5 | [
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"content": "Just a note: \"fail safe\" does not mean safe from failure. It means that when it fails, it defaults to a safe mode. A fastener that is fail safe is kind of an oxymoron.",
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"content": "Does a screw/bolt type that tightens and untightens but doesn't come off without special technique exist? Hey all! I'm currently working on a little compact quadcopter project and was wondering if anyone could help me out with a screw/bolt type(s). I'd used tight clamps to hold booms in place pr... | |
zwqnej | askengineers_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "I frequently work on design teams of up to twenty people, with each person responsible for some subset of the full product. In short: lots of communication. Think of product development like a ball of clay being turned into a sculpture of a person, and the process is sculpting by committee. You d... | true | [
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"content": "How do R&D engineers plan out part designs when different parts or assemblies are made by other people? I worked as a manufacturing engineering at my previous job and had very close interactions with my R&D counterparts. I never thought to ask during my tenure, but it's been on my mind quite a bit... | |
sfut69 | askengineers_train | 4.588235 | [
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"content": "Assuming this is for a new role... I always start by adding at least 20% to my current salary when they ask what that is. Some folks say not to say what you're making now, or don't give them a number, and that's fine too, but my strategy is tell them I make 20% more than I'm making, then add anot... | true | [
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"content": "How do *you* negotiate salary?",
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f7c1i9 | askengineers_train | 4.666667 | [
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"content": "I just switched jobs and got a 32% increase. Was already 6 figures to begin, so it was a pretty big jump. Edit: sorry just saw the sticky \\- Power engineer \\- 10 years experience \\- B.S. and B.A.",
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"content": "What % pay raise have you when seen changing jobs recently? Currently engineering profession is seen as a fully employed, meaning there are no engineers looking for work. A **recruiter friend of mine told me, they can't hire who they want, so they are poaching engineers from their competitors. Thi... | |
iwv1ni | askengineers_train | 5.666667 | [
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"content": "Depends on what engine we're talking about, some engines have a pre-startup lube oil system. :)",
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"content": "Engine wear So a lot of people told me that a lot of wear in a engine happens upon startup if so why isn’t there a separate oil pump that circulates the oil before startup so that less wear occurs?",
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yr5vpn | askengineers_train | 5 | [
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"content": "You are right that the heat content of the air is small compared to the food and water in the freezer. That means that you can get away with quickly opening and grabbing. But you need to consider a few things beyond what's been mentioned: * ΔT between the freezer temperature and ambient is a lo... | true | [
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"content": "Opening the freezer during a power outage My roommate says that the freezer should not be opened at all during an extended outage, so that the heat won't escape. I say that because our freezer is packed full, and water (in the food) holds heat so much more than air, that opening the door briefly ... | |
rud14e | askengineers_train | 4.833333 | [
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"content": "We made a year's worth of sales in the first month of the year that I left, and after hearing for years how we were going to get more help or do things more effectively, while still fucking getting shit work that paid not enough to put up with it so sales people could make their quotas, I decided ... | false | [
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"content": "Why did you leave your last job?",
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