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    AutoCAD 2010 - 2011

    I don't understand what market drivers are pushing AutoCAD 2010 and 2011 to be the leading software for designers. Everyone is using it, and everyone is bogged down. AutoCAD 2004 is about 5 times more productive. In other words what can be done in 1 hour in AutoCAD 2004, takes about 5 hours...
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    Job Posting Laughers

    I've been looking for MEP jobs lately. These are some recent laughers I keep running across. Looking for a PE. "Latest version of AutoCAD required." :-) As if R14 is any different than 2011. I swear some of these employers never spent a day of their life designing. Recently, there has...
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    Chicago Energy Licensing

    Chicago requires special license for energy to perferom energy analysis, such as COMcheck, REScheck. The city has enacted ever so slightly more stringent version of IECC, and now they require state licensed engineers and architects who do energy calcs for living to go to a seminar ($200) and...
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    Revit and Consulting

    Revit is cool. I get that. I also get that Revit allows construction people to see what's going on in space. But what happened to the whole: Engineering plans are diagramatic and do not show every detail of construction? I say Revit is not for engineers. Let the engineers work in 2d for...
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    Estimating the Result date

    OK. So, six months ago, the test was on Oct 22/23rd. The results came back around December 15. So, the wait is about 55 days. The target date I'm looking for is June 10th.
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    NCEES Prob. # 514

    I am not getting this problem. Can some explain (1) why is this a series representation when transformers are paralleled, and (2) why is Va1, pertaining to one of three series impedances, the positive sequence voltage when?
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    Power Exam Topics

    There are only four tested topics on the Power exam for morning and afternoon: General Power, Circuit Analysis, Machines, and Transmission/Distribution (+Economics and Codes). Is that true?
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    Illinois - Letter

    Did anyone in Illinois receive the actual letter in the mail yet?
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