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Did you know Trivia - A survey by ZweigWhite in the U.S. found that the single most common issue of conflict among principals of architecture and engineering firms relates to their ideas on vision and growth. The results from the 2008 Principals, Partners & Owners Survey of Architecture, Engineering, Planning & Environmental Consulting Firms, showed that 28% of the firm leaders identified vision and growth as the most common cause of conflict.
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 05:21 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Children with a penchant for falling into deep bore-wells need not fear any longer: a teacher in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh invented an instrument/machine/contraption – whatever you want to call it, to put their rescue operation on the fast track.
Instead of spending half a day or 3/4ths of a day or even a full day in agony, they may now be able to come up in a matter of minutes.
Sharavan Kumar, the said teacher, has designed a flexible ring like instrument that can be easily lowered into the borewell. In his own words, “this entire equipment should be carefully dropped into the borewell where the child has fallen, as it is flexible it goes inside without much problem. When we are assured that the child has been covered by the ring. We should pull one of the chains and the child gets into the ring with the bottom part getting closed. We can pull the child and equipment upwards``
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 01:04 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - A 16-year-old boy who drove friends around throwing eggs at other vehicles ended up wrecking his new car yesterday when he was chased by a furious victim.
The fleeing youth, whose name was withheld, drove his new Camry sedan into the rear of a six-wheel truck near the Industrial Ring Road bridge on Rama III road in Yannawa district.
The crash caused the truck to overturn. The youth received minor injuries.
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 10:18 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Thailand's growing animation and computer games market, valued at nearly 10 billion baht, does not have enough engineers or skilled workers, says Kamon Jirapong, associate dean of the School of Digital Media at Sripatum University.
Mr Kamon said an increase in the number of firms outsourcing digital content to Thailand meant the industry would need at least 10,000 new workers, but only a handful were now available. Meanwhile, local schools can produce only about 100 skilled graduates a year.
He hopes the newly opened Digital Media faculty can produce about 200 students annually with degrees in digital arts, animation and games starting from this year. Mr Kamon is a founder of the faculty, which was upgraded from the Digital Arts Department in the Architecture Faculty.
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 09:09 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important -- a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet.
"This place is a supernova", says Schmidt, standing under a lone tree on a windswept hilltop 35 miles north of Turkey’s border with Syria. "Within a minute of first seeing it I knew I had two choices: go away and tell nobody, or spend the rest of my life working here."
Behind him are the first folds of the Anatolian plateau. Ahead, the Mesopotamian plain, like a dust-colored sea, stretches south hundreds of miles to Baghdad and beyond. The stone circles of Gobekli Tepe are just in front, hidden under the brow of the hill.
Compared to Stonehenge, Britain’s most famous prehistoric site, they are humble affairs. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are the carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500 BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 06:37 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - LUCKNOW (India) Two impostors were caught in the State Entrance Examination (SEE) 2008 conducted by the UP Technical University (UPTU) on Sunday.
While Prashant Pathak was found appearing for examination in place of Mohammed Kasif in the examination centre at integral university, Bhola Prasad was caught impersonating Akshay Kumar in Bareilly polytechnic centre. Both the impostors hail from Bihar and were caught during the entrance examination for undergraduate engineering (BTech) course. They were later handed over to the police.
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 05:07 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - BEIJING - China has uncovered 3,415 unqualified hydropower stations in its vast rural areas in the last five years, the water resources authorities said here on Friday.
Most of these hydropower stations were in water-rich provinces in the south, Vice-Minister of Water Resources Hu Siyi said. Nearly half were built without engineering design approvals, and 71.9 percent did not receive quality inspection before becoming operational.
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 01:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - ThyssenKrupp VDM is investing strongly to increase its competitiveness. Around €56 million has been spent, among other things on the construction of a new engineering forging line in Unna which began operation today.
“In Unna we now have one of the world’s most advanced open-die forging operations,” said ThyssenKrupp Stainless AG executive board chairman Jürgen Fechter at the official inauguration ceremony, which was also attended by North Rhine-Westphalia economics minister Christa Thoben.
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Monday 21 April, 2008 09:16 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Japan, April 17: Planning for your old age? Engineers in Japan are. Carmaker Nissan Motor is using a specialised driver`s suit and goggles to simulate the bad balance, stiff joints, weaker eyesight and extra 5kg that may accompany senior citizenry.
Associate chief designer Etsuhiro Watanabe says the suit`s weight and constriction help in determining functionality and accessibility within cars by putting young designers not only in the minds of the mobility-challenged, but also in their bodies. "Difficulty in walking, back pains, trouble in lifting arms - we wanted to consider assorted infirmities," said Watanabe of the concept known as universal design. "It`s easy to do this for the young, but we wanted to design for adverse conditions and see what modifications are needed."
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Monday 21 April, 2008 05:21 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - If Willy Wonka designed a coffee store, he would likely end up with something like the Roasting Plant Coffee Company in New York. Built around a complex machine that takes automated coffee production to a new level, Roasting Plant functions as much like a small factory as a retail coffee shop. Coffee beans travel overhead in pneumatic tubes, whooshing between storage bins, a roasting station, a grinder and a brewing machine.
Willy might not entirely appreciate the degree of automation. A modern distributed control system runs the entire operation, so Oompa Loompas and human baristas need not apply. In fact, other than loading the machine with raw beans and handing over the finished coffee drink, the system requires no manual labor at all.
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Monday 21 April, 2008 03:08 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Colombo: Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets struck a key logistic complex and an engineering yard of LTTE in the general area of Visuamadu in Mullaithivu district early this morning, the Defense Ministry reported.
Citing the fighter pilots Air Force spokesman said the target which has been under observation for a long time by air surveillance was successfully hit. Increased activity observed lately led to the attack, reports said.
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Monday 21 April, 2008 09:02 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The construction of the tunnel linking Russia's Far Eastern Chukotka and the west coast of Alaska in the U.S. will start in the nearest future.
The history of the tunnel between Cape Dezhnev, the most eastern point of Asia, and Cape Prince of Wales, the most western point of North America, dates back to the early 20th century. After the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1916, Tsar Nicholas II proposed the building of the railway and ferry connection between North America and Eurasia. The idea was backed by the leaders of the Union of Pacific Railroad, but World War I and the October Revolution frustrated the plans
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Monday 21 April, 2008 05:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - (London) The first draft of Charles Darwin`s "On The Origin Of Species" is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for the first time.
Comprising some 20,000 items and 90,000 images, the release on darwin-online.org.uk is the largest in history, according to the organizers from Cambridge University Library which holds all the Darwin papers.
"This release makes his private papers, mountains of notes, experiments, and research behind his world-changing publications available to the world for free," said John van Wyhe, director of the project.
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Sunday 20 April, 2008 09:05 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - The next phase in physics' great 21st century quest - to detect gravitational waves - has been approved.
More than $200m (£100m) is to be spent upgrading the US Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories.
Ligo engineers are hunting for ripples predicted to be seen in the fabric of space-time when extreme cosmic events occur, such as the merger of super-dense stars.
Confirmation of the waves' existence should open up new ways to study the mysteries of the Universe.
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Sunday 20 April, 2008 01:34 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Robots tossing eggs and an automated golf bag that can follow its owner around the golf course using GPS signals were parts of the 11th annual "Design Day" hosted by the University of Utah's Mechanical Engineering Department Thursday.
"Creativity, teamwork, leadership and communication can't be taught through lectures; they can only be learned through experience" is the way the department chairman Kent Udell characterized the event, which included student teams from all undergraduate levels and a competition for junior high students.
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Sunday 20 April, 2008 05:33 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The Southwest Research Institute says engineers have tested an algae-based biofuel that is capable of meeting U.S. Defense Department cold-weather requirements.
The U.S. Department of Defense requested SWRI to test California-based Solazyme Inc.'s biodiesel, called Soladiesel. Officials say the microalgae fuel demonstrated a strong performance capability in cold weather. Because the U.S. military has bases in many cold-weather climates, they have been previously unable to use biodiesel.
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 09:32 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Engineer Neil Wallace peers into a huge vacuum chamber designed to replicate - as far as possible - the conditions of space.
Cryogenic pumps can be heard in the background, whistling away like tiny steam engines.
Using helium gas as a coolant, they can bring down the temperature in the vacuum chamber to an incredibly chilly 20 Kelvin (-253C). The pressure, meanwhile, can drop to a millionth of an atmosphere.
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 05:19 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - The ingredients: rubber bands, cotton balls, cottage cheese, ketchup, duct tape and a Ziploc bag.
The finished product: A contraption that would protect a raw egg from breaking when it was dropped from an eight-story tower.
That particular collection of household items worked for freshman Joey Rusch and his team of seven other University of Colorado engineering students at the school's annual egg drop Thursday. Their egg, contained in the protective device they named "Be Dazzled," was intact after its fall.
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 01:17 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - For the second consecutive year, damage to a concrete canoe in transit to the annual American Society of Civil Engineers regional conference in Colorado hurt the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology's chances at a No. 1 finish.
The school's ASCE chapter finished third in a field of 14 schools at the 2008 Rocky Mountain Regional Conference on April 4 and 5in Golden, Colo.
In addition to the overall third-place finish, there were several outstanding individual performances, according to a news release from the school.
The concrete canoe team took third in design paper and third in presentation.
However, for the second consecutive year,the canoe was badly damaged on the trip to Golden and the team was unable to compete in the canoe races.
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 09:15 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - WEST Berkshire Council has unveiled a five year programme of engineering works to shore up the district’s drains in a bid to prevent a repeat of July’s floods.
The council will spend more than £2 million on a programme of ditch clearance, drain cleaning and structural works to lessen the flood risk, as recommended by a new 210-page engineering report into last year’s disaster.
The work is set to include the construction of new balancing ponds in Thatcham, in an attempt to slow the furious run-off of water from Cold Ash Hill and Bucklebury Common which surged into the town’s drains.
The quick run-off, caused in part by modern agricultural methods and clogged water courses, left sewers unable to cope with extra water surging in off the tarmac.
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 05:14 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Norway-based Aker Solutions has signed an exclusive alliance partner contract with Shell Deutschland Oil for the provision of engineering services for Shell's refineries in Germany.
The contract duration is five years, with the option to extend it by two additional two-year periods. The facilities covered by the agreement include the Heide, Hamburg-Harburg and Rheinland refineries.
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Saturday 19 April, 2008 01:12 AM |
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