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Has anyone been asked to provide their state board for verification of their PDH's? Texas doesn't require you to submit anything when you renew your license annually, but they do ask you to keep records in case of an audit. Recently a coworker was asked by the Texas board to supply verification...

Pretty specific question here... In credit EA4, Enhanced refrigerant management, where do the "Rc" values come from? Page 223 of the reference manual has some examples but I don't know where I'm supposed to find the "Rc" values. I found a table with default maximums, but nothing seems to match up.

Has anyone had the privilege of attending the RISA training at their California headquarters? Is it informative? Will it make me a better engineer? Do they serve a nice lunch? Our company is sending me and another engineer sometime next year, and I wanted to get some first hand info. Thanks

Our firm is looking at getting into BIM for some upcoming government projects. Our largest projects tend to be elementary schools, and the occasional middle school. Any thoughts or experience with Revit for structural design?

Just a little background. We use an assortment of standard steel items in the assembly of our products. Some items will of course will be used more then others. We try to keep a reasonable stock of all items just in case they are needed. Recently we got snagged with zero inventory of one of the...

Anyone attending this years congress in Long Beach? This is my first time at such an event, and I'm not sure what to expect. I'll be attending the "Codes and Standards" track. I'm hoping I'll learn some interesting new aspects of the building codes. But I'm also afraid I'll be bored to tears...

I can't quite figure out the units for the breakout strength coefficient in section 6.5.4.1 of the PCI Design Handbook, 6th ed. I'm guessing it should come out to lbs/in^2. Is there a specific unit associated with the 3.33 value? I also can't quite seem to find what the lambda factor is. Is it...

I have (2) 256MB 333DDR 184 pin memory modules and a NVIDIA GeForce 4600 Ti 128MB graphics card available. They are both several years old and came as original equipment in my Alienware PC. Any offers or trades considered. I will trade for legos.

So our corporate office picks today to shut down our internet for repairs. How the hell am I supposed to check the Texas site every three seconds? almost forgot.... :wait

What happened to all the members? None of them live in states with grades? Why is it only first time posters claiming to have passed. Who's gonna be first on the banner??

Is anyone familiar with horizontal drilling? I've seen this same work crew drilling now for 3 months. Are they drilling to the other side of the city? Its at a pretty major intersection, and I can't seem to find another work site. Normally I'd see these machines on the side of the road, drilling...

Starting next year, our birthday will be considered a floating holiday. I think they are trying to cut down on office fun completely. It's like you have to go into quarintine on your birthday.

So I playing a game of Jenga with my 3 year old. Which basically amounts to building tall towers and watching her knocking them down. And I got to thinking, these towers suck. The columns are too close together, they wobble, and the slightest bump brings them crashing down. So I got some rubber...

Does anyone in Texas know of a store that carries 16" oscilating table fans year round? I really don't want to order one over the internet. Every major retailer has stopped selling them. Even the one manufacture told me they physically stop producing them in july. This is like the time I tried...

What kind of incentive program does your company offer, if any? Ours is based on the number of projects our engineering team can submit. Each project is worth one point. There are quotas for each quarter, and depending which quota we make will determine our quarterly incentive. However...

I just now realized I had the AASHTOSD reference the Structural Engineering Reference Manual has been referring too. I thought it was a whole separate publication. D'oh!

Anyone want a Texas PE seal in AutoCAD format? I spent many good studying hours tracing one.

I may have an older sample exam, so bear with me... Problem 105 looks for the minimum dead load to resist overturning in a precast wall panel. I can't seem to figure out how they come up with the dead load resisting moment. They show the DLRM as (2/3)*(8^2/2)*w = 21.3 *w. Obviously this isn't...

How do you find the modulus of elasticity of CMU? I have a couple possibilities i'd like some input on. 1) UBC 2106.2.12 says its E = 750 * f`m 2) NCEES sample exam #539 says its E = 2.2 - (100/500)*0.6 for f`m = 1500psi. I have no idea what those values are, but if you recognize the format...

After I pass the STRI exam in Texas, will I be a PE or SE? My assumption was that I could call my self a structural engineer, but I could only use the initaials PE after my name. As a business card example.... Mike1144, PE Structural Engineer It was my understanding that only California...