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Im sitting here looking at email signatures of various people I work with. About half use P.E. and half use PE. Is one correct? Just curious.

And the verdict is that my wife really likes it. Seriously this stuff rocks.

So about 2 months ago our IT overlords put into place a web filter. Up until then we had almost free reign of the intertubes. This cut down the sites I regularly visted at work by about 75%. I never visited porn or anything but I did tend to spend a fair amount of time on fantasy football and...

By Tom Petty Oh baby don't it feel like heaven right now Don't it feel like something from a dream Yeah I've never known nothing quite like this Don't it feel like tonight might never be again We know better than to try and pretend Baby no one coulda ever told me 'bout this I said yeah...

One of the best sports seasons in the whole country has officially kicked off: NCAA BASKETBALL! Let the smack talking/serious discussions begin! I, for one, would like to congratulate the University of Louisville Cardinals on a win in their new stadium last night! On another note I went to...

So the clock has ticked below 30 days until the October, 2010 PE exam. Its the final home stretch and its time to kick into your finishing gear. Anyone have a 30 day game plan set up? My goal was to have all the "major" topics pretty well studied and in the bag (fluids, thermo, heat transfer...

As Im working my way through the Chemical Engineering Review Manual, it struck me how HUGE the environmental section is. Its longer then just about any other section of the book. However when I look at the breakdown of the actual test percentages, environmental only makes up 2% of the...

I moved into a new house back in October. It shares about a 1/4 acre pond with the neighbors. From the deck it looks outstanding, however on closer inspection the damn thing is a mess. Ive attached a picture below with some captions. Hopefully some of you civil/water people can help me out...

To all you environmental people out there I want to see if you can help me out. I have been looking for a good reference book on NOx chemistry. Specifically formation of NOx in boilers and CT's and NOx removal in SCR's. Ive searched through my old inorganic chemistry book and looked through...

So we got word of a big announcement coming down from on high today. Turns out the owners of my company decided to sell out to a much larger engineering firm. My company has about 400 employees in 7 offices mostly in the southeast and midwest. We're being bought out by Stantec based in...

Ok, I did some air testing last year and the $hit has really hit the fan. Ill save the long story but Ive got data on some air emmisions. I need to take the concentration in PPM (volume) and get a mass emmissions rate in mass/time. Its been a year since I looked at the spreadsheet I didnt the...

As Ive said before my current job is really dragging me down and Im eager to make a change. I would love to get into a plant/manufacturing environment and have started to canvas the city for openings. Ive found several which are pretty promising. One thing which jumps out at me with most of...

In my annual review my boss laid out one of my goals over the next few years is to get my PE license. We discussed what field I should take the test in: chemical or environmental. My boss was very clear that taking the chemical PE would be worthless for our company and would limit my ability...

Im an idiot. There Ive said it. Why you ask? Ive posted before that my wife is very good at planning my vacation time with no input from me. Well this year shes burned my vacation time on 1) a family trip to Gulf Shores, AL and 2) a 10 day trip to Ireland. We planned these both out during...

So Im playing my Xbox 360 yesterday and suddenly the thing makes a popping noise (sort of like a record skipping) and freezes. I shut the thing off and turn it back on. The lights on the front which are normally green turn red. After a quick search I find out that my beloved Xbox is telling...

I have a virtually unused 4th Edition copy of "Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering" by H. Scott Fogler which Im looking to trade for a 2nd or 3rd edition of "Chemical Reaction Engineering" by O. Levenspiel. Fogler: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Chemical-Re...9255&sr=8-1 Levenspiel...

For the last couple months Ive been hammering out Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans for a very large electric utility company. Has anyone else here had any experience with SPCC plans? The way my company is doing it is so ass backwards. We are writing the plans now for...

Just wondering if anyone is taking the FE in April 2007? If so feel free to post questions in this thread. I took it last October and passed. I was a major spaz about the whole thing and studied studied studied my ass off so I can probably answer most questions about the exam (with in the...

My father in law bought a new house and is moving so last weekend my wife and I were helping him pack. In digging through his attic I found an old slide rule. Being and engineer with a taste for history I decided to learn how to use it. Although its pretty tricky at first once you get the...

Any ChE PE's around that can offer advice on what books they took in? Ive heard the only things we need are: Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook Chemical Engineering Review Manual *Insert Book on Kinetics Here Just wondering if this is it? I would probably take in some of my text books...