Nope a petroleum engineer shouldn't have any real problems, especially now with oil at $60 a barrel, (most are going to be geotechnical or mineral engineers, or chem specialists). The oil companies need to drill new wells and that takes 10 to 12 years including exploration.
I have to back that up, I am basically a Civil speciallizing in water. There is basically a zero unemployment rate after 3 months of graduation within our field.
As an example, I recently put out a couple of blind positions queries directed to no-one in particular and within 1 day I had three interviews during the same week. These are for positions that are only 70% comparable to what I have experience doing. I always feel that the term engineer is constantly getting polluted and Joe Public really doesn't know what to make of it. (Blame the media again I guess)
Plus unlike EE's you can't really outsource construction oversight or fieldwork (so if your son is an EE get him to switch. Sewage is fun!!)
That's the point. The use of random numbers allows you to conduct a series of simulations that account better for the uncertainty associated with the unknown factors.
You run a series of simulations, 30+ (ideally a few hundred or even thousand if you have the time). The more simulations, the more detail you can resolve because the interactions between variables become more clear. These runs are then analyzed and you can produce a relatively good confidence about your results. The random numbers in a Monte Carlo analysis help produce the entire range of possibilities. With the more reasonable scenarios happening more frequently. Then you run a frequency analysis on the results.
This is what people have done. Read the journal, go to your nearest University library, then go talk to a statistician, a real one and you will see they did a good series of runs. More would have been better, but they hit the 0.90 confidence level so that is good enough for me and most everyone else to conclude that they were demonstrating due diligence.
The smart has been engineered to reduce g-forces, teh seats deform, the ridgid metal structure buckles at points, the drive-train slides under the car. Seat-belts are equipted with automatic tighteners than limit motion and release it slowly to reduce g-forces. It emparts g-forces on the passengers at the rate equal to a vehicle twice its size.
Also it can hit 80mph without too much of a problem, plus the electronic limiter can be removed by a hack.
As for the 19 sec 0-60mph that is due to the automatic transmission that is considered crap. It pauses for a second or two while changing gears. If you have the manuel version, (which the automatic can be turned into with the push of a button) the delay can be greatly reduced.
This is due to there being no clutch, it is computer controlled.
The short wheelbase ensures any side inpact will hit an axel and not intrude into the passenger cabin. Far better than many other vehicles. (Like the king of fatal side impacts the Ford F-150)
You obviously don't know kids, what is needed is a light when they are going to sleep and if they wake up crying the rat needs to be trained to jump on the wheel and run.
So much less than 10+ hours of running is needed, but I am sure one of those super marathon rodents from yesterday couldn't hurt.
In first year we used 12th edition on Statics/Dynamics by some guy date 1999. I was given a bunch of old engineering texts from my dad when one of the other professors died and they cleaned out his office cause his wife didn't want the books.
In that box was a 2nd edition published in 1956 of the same Statics/Dynamics book. The drawings were the same, questions were the same, and it was all the same except somewhere in the last 50 years it had gone from imperial to metric.
Now, I paid $110 for that book. Why I am sure the author is dead, and I am sure they spend no more than 1 day on fixing a new edition.
Let me tell you it sure woke me up. And made me realize, if I am going to buy a book I am sure going to keep it. Especially since Air Pollution Modelling Methods: Best Practices, which I got for a 4th year course was $240.
I couldn't see anyone buying that for just 1 semester.
Talk to profs, go to office hours, ask questions. By third/forth year they often pass off the free books that publishers give them. I know this happens where I have been for the last five years.
I mean most professors still have the books they went to school with and don't really need another copy of a slightly revised version when they can drop their on the desk and it opens to the page they want to teach from.
I think I was at that conference (Put on by Environment Canada at the CCIW). As for the plume I do agree, there is a similar occurrence off the Beaches in Toronto, where the effects drop sharply about 200-300m offshore. The effects they were talking about were storm event runoff and how the relative motion even 100m laterally from the point of impact was non-detectable as either a difference in temperature or flow patters from modeled historical trends without the input.
If I remember the greatest concern was a scouring of the bottom liberating sequestered pollutants and reintroducing them in an area where drinking water was drawn from, this would then require a greater investment to ensure an increased level of treatment.
What I am also saying is that the current input to the lake would not be increased dramatically as the source water that is returning would not be different in temperature than what is currently being discharged.
Yes but the return from the municipal wastewater treatemnt plant (MWWTP) all inject "warm" water at or near the top. As for warm, the water outfall from a MWWTP in Ontario normally falls between 11 and 14 degrees C, depending on the type of treatment process presence and the time of year.
This is why there are controls on what temperature effluent you can discharge into the sewer system. Because biological treatment likes everything very consistant. Also remember the sewage pipes running to the treatment plant from the city run underground in direct contact with the earth which regulates the water temperature.
Hotels have safes, they will always let you put a laptop bag in there and most often have huge coverage to prevent theft. Normally if the value is under $5000 there is no problem.
Don't "hide it" lock it up, in a safe. A home floor safe is a good idea if you are paranoid. The good ones, $2500+ will survive a fire without difficulty and will keep anyone short of James Bond out.
The issue is rifles vs handguns. Most canadians have little or no problems with rifles. Farmers need them and it makes sense in alot of places. It is the handguns in downtown at 2:00am that bothers people when they see another kid got shot on the news
The government loves doing this, as a Federal department equiptment (I won't say which one) we don't pay PST, cause as a lower form of government the provience can't tax the feds. But we do pay GST. So if we spend $10,000 on a new lab machine then the finance department takes 7% on top and next year we get a really small chunk back as part of that budget. So budgets of departments with few people have budgets that appear larger than they really are.
Every department feels the need to stick it to the others, especially as money disappears at the end of the year. Which causes a mad rush to ensure you spend every penny or your budget will be reduced next year. Cause you obviously don't need the money. You can't bank money to purchase something big, so there are all kind of things purchased in April that can be "justified" that just aren't needed. Computer upgrades are a great way to bank money in bug cardboard boxes incase they are ever needed cause we can't throw anything away.
That one change could improve efficiency drimatically, but because the money must be spent there is more waste than there needs to be.
I know, don't feed the troll, and quoting UN statistics probably won't win him over (Its the black choppers and all) but the top ten countries for the Human Development Index as rated evey year consistently has gone:
1. Norway 2. Sweden 3. Canada 4. Belgium 5. Australia 6. United States 7. Iceland 8. Netherlands 9. Japan 10. Finland
I mean Google people! These are the 2002/2003 numbers, I can't find the 2004 numbers, they may not have been released yet.
Now there has been a few variations in these numbers over the last 10-years but it is pretty similar. And look "leftist" socialized medicine and all seems to be winning. Perhaps people live better when they don't risk dying of dark ages diseases.
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Please read the article, they recover the metal.
"Kid's Say the Darnedest Things."
Except there the kids were often right, and a heck of alot funnier.
However based upon the fact that the current government haven't passed anything except the budget I wouldn't bet on it changing.
Everything else is stalled. Everything.
In Canada it is not. (Eugh, Law and Ethics, how I hate thee.) I assume it is similar in the states, but i'm not sure (I'm an EIT, not a lawyer).
Nope a petroleum engineer shouldn't have any real problems, especially now with oil at $60 a barrel, (most are going to be geotechnical or mineral engineers, or chem specialists). The oil companies need to drill new wells and that takes 10 to 12 years including exploration.
I have to back that up, I am basically a Civil speciallizing in water. There is basically a zero unemployment rate after 3 months of graduation within our field.
As an example, I recently put out a couple of blind positions queries directed to no-one in particular and within 1 day I had three interviews during the same week. These are for positions that are only 70% comparable to what I have experience doing. I always feel that the term engineer is constantly getting polluted and Joe Public really doesn't know what to make of it. (Blame the media again I guess)
Plus unlike EE's you can't really outsource construction oversight or fieldwork (so if your son is an EE get him to switch. Sewage is fun!!)
Fish != Reptiles; Fish = Fish
Yes, but cubes don't roll. Think or the security "balls" from The Prisoner, or if you are too young. Think of The Simpsons spoof.
Myomer. It must be called Myomer.
That's the point. The use of random numbers allows you to conduct a series of simulations that account better for the uncertainty associated with the unknown factors.
You run a series of simulations, 30+ (ideally a few hundred or even thousand if you have the time). The more simulations, the more detail you can resolve because the interactions between variables become more clear. These runs are then analyzed and you can produce a relatively good confidence about your results. The random numbers in a Monte Carlo analysis help produce the entire range of possibilities. With the more reasonable scenarios happening more frequently. Then you run a frequency analysis on the results.
This is what people have done. Read the journal, go to your nearest University library, then go talk to a statistician, a real one and you will see they did a good series of runs. More would have been better, but they hit the 0.90 confidence level so that is good enough for me and most everyone else to conclude that they were demonstrating due diligence.
The smart has been engineered to reduce g-forces, teh seats deform, the ridgid metal structure buckles at points, the drive-train slides under the car. Seat-belts are equipted with automatic tighteners than limit motion and release it slowly to reduce g-forces. It emparts g-forces on the passengers at the rate equal to a vehicle twice its size.
Also it can hit 80mph without too much of a problem, plus the electronic limiter can be removed by a hack.
As for the 19 sec 0-60mph that is due to the automatic transmission that is considered crap. It pauses for a second or two while changing gears. If you have the manuel version, (which the automatic can be turned into with the push of a button) the delay can be greatly reduced.
This is due to there being no clutch, it is computer controlled.
The short wheelbase ensures any side inpact will hit an axel and not intrude into the passenger cabin. Far better than many other vehicles. (Like the king of fatal side impacts the Ford F-150)
You obviously don't know kids, what is needed is a light when they are going to sleep and if they wake up crying the rat needs to be trained to jump on the wheel and run.
So much less than 10+ hours of running is needed, but I am sure one of those super marathon rodents from yesterday couldn't hurt.
See, See... I told you we need a "-1 Wrong" moderation!
In first year we used 12th edition on Statics/Dynamics by some guy date 1999. I was given a bunch of old engineering texts from my dad when one of the other professors died and they cleaned out his office cause his wife didn't want the books.
In that box was a 2nd edition published in 1956 of the same Statics/Dynamics book. The drawings were the same, questions were the same, and it was all the same except somewhere in the last 50 years it had gone from imperial to metric.
Now, I paid $110 for that book. Why I am sure the author is dead, and I am sure they spend no more than 1 day on fixing a new edition.
Let me tell you it sure woke me up. And made me realize, if I am going to buy a book I am sure going to keep it. Especially since Air Pollution Modelling Methods: Best Practices, which I got for a 4th year course was $240.
I couldn't see anyone buying that for just 1 semester.
Talk to profs, go to office hours, ask questions. By third/forth year they often pass off the free books that publishers give them. I know this happens where I have been for the last five years.
I mean most professors still have the books they went to school with and don't really need another copy of a slightly revised version when they can drop their on the desk and it opens to the page they want to teach from.
I think I was at that conference (Put on by Environment Canada at the CCIW). As for the plume I do agree, there is a similar occurrence off the Beaches in Toronto, where the effects drop sharply about 200-300m offshore. The effects they were talking about were storm event runoff and how the relative motion even 100m laterally from the point of impact was non-detectable as either a difference in temperature or flow patters from modeled historical trends without the input.
If I remember the greatest concern was a scouring of the bottom liberating sequestered pollutants and reintroducing them in an area where drinking water was drawn from, this would then require a greater investment to ensure an increased level of treatment.
What I am also saying is that the current input to the lake would not be increased dramatically as the source water that is returning would not be different in temperature than what is currently being discharged.
Yes but the return from the municipal wastewater treatemnt plant (MWWTP) all inject "warm" water at or near the top. As for warm, the water outfall from a MWWTP in Ontario normally falls between 11 and 14 degrees C, depending on the type of treatment process presence and the time of year.
This is why there are controls on what temperature effluent you can discharge into the sewer system. Because biological treatment likes everything very consistant. Also remember the sewage pipes running to the treatment plant from the city run underground in direct contact with the earth which regulates the water temperature.
YIAAEE (Yes I Am An Environmental Engineer)
Birds don't fly into windmills. There are large enough that the tip-speed is fairly low and birds can avoid them.
Now you will get some extra stupid birds. But every species have those and it would be progress if they don't breed.
Add to this the improved health of the enviroment from reduced pollution and bird levels would probably increase, not decrease.
Hotels have safes, they will always let you put a laptop bag in there and most often have huge coverage to prevent theft. Normally if the value is under $5000 there is no problem.
Don't "hide it" lock it up, in a safe. A home floor safe is a good idea if you are paranoid. The good ones, $2500+ will survive a fire without difficulty and will keep anyone short of James Bond out.
The issue is rifles vs handguns. Most canadians have little or no problems with rifles. Farmers need them and it makes sense in alot of places. It is the handguns in downtown at 2:00am that bothers people when they see another kid got shot on the news
The GST is not applicable to things like the necesities of life like rent, back market computer equiptment and the like.
The government loves doing this, as a Federal department equiptment (I won't say which one) we don't pay PST, cause as a lower form of government the provience can't tax the feds. But we do pay GST. So if we spend $10,000 on a new lab machine then the finance department takes 7% on top and next year we get a really small chunk back as part of that budget. So budgets of departments with few people have budgets that appear larger than they really are.
Every department feels the need to stick it to the others, especially as money disappears at the end of the year. Which causes a mad rush to ensure you spend every penny or your budget will be reduced next year. Cause you obviously don't need the money. You can't bank money to purchase something big, so there are all kind of things purchased in April that can be "justified" that just aren't needed. Computer upgrades are a great way to bank money in bug cardboard boxes incase they are ever needed cause we can't throw anything away.
That one change could improve efficiency drimatically, but because the money must be spent there is more waste than there needs to be.
I know, don't feed the troll, and quoting UN statistics probably won't win him over (Its the black choppers and all) but the top ten countries for the Human Development Index as rated evey year consistently has gone:
1. Norway
2. Sweden
3. Canada
4. Belgium
5. Australia
6. United States
7. Iceland
8. Netherlands
9. Japan
10. Finland
I mean Google people! These are the 2002/2003 numbers, I can't find the 2004 numbers, they may not have been released yet.
Now there has been a few variations in these numbers over the last 10-years but it is pretty similar. And look "leftist" socialized medicine and all seems to be winning. Perhaps people live better when they don't risk dying of dark ages diseases.
Now I admit Mozilla is slow, but FireFox is much faster. I showed a friend 2 nights ago.
Mozilla took 20 seconds to load plus all my tabs. FireFox took about 2-3.
Now I only run IE for updates, so I can't tell you how it compares, but 3 seconds is more than fast enough for me.