Recent content by ironman

I think tenure was originally designed so that someone is not having to "red line" themselves into an early grave just to say employed. We dont do it to our cars or planes but we expect perpetual red line out of employees in the US society. Tenure and unions are a way to protect against that...

For my state I had a co worker that was a contractor and the liability insurance was more expensive than his errors and ommissions insurance, I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 5k/year but that was a few years ago. If you are going out as a contractor you need to figure thoes...

Does anyone know of a good text on thermal imaging, ie how to process a microbolo meter. They are EXTREMELY expensive and just doing some quick internet research it looks like one can be made in 10-15 steps, the only expensive piece of equipment in the process is the furnace and the plasma...

I know that cars like corvettes and high end porches they wont let you test drive, people get angry if there is more than 1 or 2 miles on them (from moving the car from the trailer to the lot) and wont buy them. Thoes mid range sports cars I would be very weiry of, I would probably have a...

Charlie Sheen is the man, 2 and a half men is the funniest show on TV. Anyways all we have to do is wait and see what happens.

I am working on this as well, my cross disipline is pretty radically different though so I will probably test again (if its required). I am going to try to go from chemical to electrical and get a MS in EE, the 2 disiplines are so different I dont know that I would be legally able to stamp...

Thats true, but thoes 100's of applicants wont nessicarily have anywhere close to the certs or experience that is required. A job I applied for one time the employer was getting tired of people who were not qualified applying for things. So while an employer can do that it does not mean that...

I went to target and got a nice frame for 35$, I got lucky and it fit just right. To go get one with nice glass and matting would cost more than I would want to spend.

I dont ever use it, I feel that it can bring about unwanted higher expectations (even if im not stamping anything at that moment). I have found that people dont like to give prestige but instead I would worry about someone saying oh your a PE how did you F up that unit conversion. So I just...

28% is not that much for being a road whore unless your already over 100k a year, then 28k extra is not to shabby. I guess it depends on if you get to go home to your wife every night and the benifits that come with that.

Thats true, in my state they have disipline specific stamps. They are however in the process of going to a general stamp so i called the board and they said that even though they are going to a general stamp your disipline will still be listed in your licence and you can only stamp what you...

It is a bit of a gamble but if you want to get into grad school and your undergrad GPA is not all that then you may have to try doing this. Also this is the one case (in my opinion) where the name brand of your undergrad degree can possibly be a get out of jail free card for a not so hot GPA...

Does anyone know if there is a rule of thumb for calculating the equ length of a shut down centrifugul pump. I am doing a gas back flow scenario for a shut down pump to see what the maximum possible gas flow rate is to an atmospheric tank and what percentage of the vapor recovery unit will be...

The back door into grad school is enrolling in 600 level classes as a non degree seeking student and then applying on the basis of your grades in thoes classes. I dont know if this works for med school or law school but it will work for an engineering masters.

30k is like gas station worker wages where I am, I make like 85k a year. It just all depends on the cost of living in your area, if you can get a 6 pack of beer for 50 cents you dont need to make 100k a year to live well. OF course there is always the technology issue, no matter where you live...