FEATURED TESTIMONIAL – “Gave Me the Confidence Needed!”
“Thanks to Dr. Tom’s Classroom I was able to successfully pass my Mechanical Systems PE exam. I completed undergrad almost 30 years ago, and Dr. Tom’s provided me with the refresher and confidence needed to complete the exam. The lessons are well thought out and I was able to complete them in the allotted time. The continued problem […]
Energy Efficiency using 100% Outside Air?
Every HVAC engineer knows that air quality usually improves with the more outside air that is brought into a space. This is particularly true for hospitals and other spaces where indoor air contamination is an issue. However, using lots of outside air means also having to use more energy to condition the air. In many […]
12 Engineering Milestones for 2022
What do we have to look forward to in 2022? Hopefully, lots of things!!! The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers put together a fascinating list of 12 engineering milestones to keep on your radar for the year. The list includes electric aircraft, nanometer chips, a dark-matter detector, and more. – Daniel Findley, DTC Engineering Economics Instructor Mechanical PE Exam Prep That Works!Test […]
FEATURED TESTIMONIAL – “Forever Grateful to Dr. Tom’s Classroom”
“It has long been a personal goal (as well as a professional goal) to get the satisfaction of fulfilling the requirements to be recognized as a licensed professional engineer. Kansas State University did a very good job of emphasizing the importance of licensure during the curriculum as many of my former classmates and current colleagues boast having […]
Future-proofing Your Engineering Resume
A recent article by Jeffrey Winters, Editor-in-Chief of ASME magazine, titled “Soft Skills Provide an Enduring Edge,” provided some valuable insights from several individuals, many involved in recruiting engineers for their company, into how to “future-proof” your resume. Here are some of the comments that caught my attention: “As far as skills I see among students coming […]
Gender Differences Create Expensive Overcooling in Offices
A Nature.com scientific report provides additional confirmation of something most of us that work in offices or who design office buildings already know – women are always cold and men always hot in the office. The authors analyzed over 38,000 responses from a Center for the Built Environment survey performed by the University of California, […]
FEATURED TESTIMONIAL – “I Passed, All Thanks to Your Course”
“I took the Mechanical TFS exam and found out I passed! This was all thanks to your course and following the Dr. Tom method. I did not graduate with a Mechanical Engineering degree so some of the topics (especially heat transfer and HVAC) were new to me, but your lessons were a great way to […]
Calculating for Inflation
The recent news about inflation gives us a great opportunity to talk about applying some of our engineering economics concepts and equations. From November 2020 to November 2021, the consumer price index – which is a metric that measures the cost of a variety of goods and services – rose 6.8% over that one-year time period. What would […]
Brownfields into Brightfields
RMI, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that works to transform global energy systems across the real economy, recently published an article titled “Turning Trash into Treasure.” The article highlighted the significant potential of generating electrical power from solar energy panels located on out of service landfills. Currently, such a landfill site in Houston, Texas is due to […]
FEATURED TESTIMONIAL – “Dr. Tom’s Explanations Were Invaluable”
“I purchased Dr. Tom’s Mechanical Thermal and Fluid Systems review course due to the positive feedback it had received from various engineering message boards. I was especially encouraged by the free videos accessible from Dr. Tom’s YouTube channel. As I worked through the course, I found that Dr. Tom was able to clearly and succinctly […]
