Miss Flying? Add a Little “Luxury Aviation” to Your Home Decor
Boeing is now “upcycling” retired aircraft parts and making them into “luxury aviation” furniture. Prices range from $5,500 to $19,500. What caught my eye was their top of the line chair at $19,500, made from the ejection seat on an F-4 Phantom II. Having flown in F-4’s in the Navy, it was like love at first sight all […]
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Celebrating the Cape Hatteras Light
On December 16, Dare County, North Carolina celebrated the “sesquicentennial” – 150th anniversary — of the lighting of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. This iconic lighthouse was completed in 1870, and was an amazing engineering feat at the time. Long before GPS navigation, the light protected mariners from the so-called “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” the shoals […]
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MECHANICAL PE EXAM TIP – Units, Units Units!!!
If I wasn’t Dr. Tom, I’d be Dr. Units. I cannot tell you how many times units are the reason someone gets the wrong answer to a problem. It might be as simple as inches needed to be converted to feet, or the other way around. Or, it is a combination of units like gallons per minute […]
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Urban Flooding – A Growing Threat
The threat of urban flooding continues to grow and threaten lives, communities, and civil engineering infrastructure. Understanding the effects of urban flooding in the United States is critical to finding ways to reduce the risk associated with it. A 2016 report published by the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores at Texas A&M University, Galveston […]
The Importance of Professional Licensure
A recent ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine contained a lead article on the importance of professional licensure, something I have always firmly endorsed. In a Q&A format, Thomas Constable, Executive Director and CEO of ASME, interviews David Soukup, Managing Director of Governance for the ASME, a PE himself. I actually met Mr. Soukup at the 2013 ASME […]
