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Has anyone acquired their Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt? I did green belt with my employer and they also have a black belt program. It is a 40-hour course. I'm gonna go for it, since my boss offered to pay for the class.

If you work on LEED projects look into the options for counting time spent on projects as it can be used for some of the CE requirements. I believe it goes one CE hour per credit on the project.

I picked up copies of the original trilogy "Despecialized" versions... basically a really nice HD version of the original, unaltered trilogy stitched together from a bunch of various sources. I've only had time to watch through episode IV but from what I've seen so far, this guy did a really...

It wasn't long for me, but I didn't have much to review. Only 2 jobs and 8 or so years of experience. Perhaps 1-2 weeks after they received everything. I just renewed last month and it was about the same timeframe.

I'd say if you can pass the specialty exam you can pass the GA, but I also took them separately (just in case). For the GA, I used the LEED Green Associate Exam preparation guide by McCombs. This includes a practice exam in the back. Read and understand this material and you will be fine on the...

When I was a kid my dad used to give me a slide rule that looked just like that every christmas as kind of a running joke... I would play with it for about 2 minutes, get bored and toss it aside. He'd put it away somewhere and re-gift it the next year.

+1 for NSPE. I went to the meeting in Seattle this year and it was a good time. I've also been thinking about joining the IES lately. Their airfield lighting conference was in town this year, so I went. That was just as good as NSPE and more relevant to my interests, me being an electrical guy.

I still have my TI-86 from high school. It is going on 20 years old and I use it daily at work. Those things don't die, ever. Some of the paint on the keys is starting to wear off, though.

Thanks! Maybe you're right that estimate is a bit low. Spent an afternoon or two a week for 6 weeks, minus thanksgiving. It could have been more like 40 hrs

In your opinion was the in-person class worth the time? My employer offers online classes to meet the ed requirement for the PMP, and its free to go that route. A couple people at my work went that way and got their PMP. I just got done doing the LEED AP and just read the book and passed, is it...

Passed my AP BD+C today! Was a good deal tougher than the Green assoc. exam, so... hooray, I guess? I used the reference guide and a study guide which was essentially a condensed version of the reference guide. Read through those materials and took a practice test. My score was...

Congrats! Friday is best day for results to be released.

I'm renewing my record this month. Do I have to get a new reference each year or can I use the same guys that signed off initially? It is worded somewhat vaguely in the instructions. Because if I have to come up with an unused PE each year like you do when changing passwords, I'm going to run...

That's Logan Airport, looking south toward the shipyards in South Boston. 

Today I finished a pretty epic spreadsheet which summarizes costs, impacts, justifications, energy use and ROI data for about 35 proposed lighting upgrade projects around our facility. I've put a lot of time into it, and we finally submitted it upstairs to finance. I'm also on vacation starting...

That's the feeling I get. As a EE my involvement in any project is not that extensive.

Trying to diplomatically tell a bunch of proposing teams why they weren't selected for a large contract.

Friday I worked on replacing a few hundred HPS lights with new LEDs. Today I am fixin' to engineer some laundry.

I wish the official study guide was released, I'm studying for the BD+C exam coming up in about 6 weeks and bought the LEED BD+C exam guide written by Gang Chen, which is an ok book but I would have rather bought the official one. There is so much memorization with this exam. I also haven't...