The project will be continuing after the customer employee has gone, right? So, perhaps Consultant A should contact the customer to express an interest in the project, and to ask to discuss it with the customer employee's replacement/superior.
I can't see a problem with accepting the project...
We used some really old heating oil as fuel some years ago but that was in a 1936 Lanz Bulldog tractor, which would run on anything from Kerosene to coal dust.
For the sake of a couple of hundred dollars, I don't think I'd risk using it.
Good point zdas04, but it doesn't help today's planners much!
Speaking of planning, for all the official belief in impending climate disaster, is anybody actually designing things differently now? In my field (forestry), the 'experts' (including government land managers) generally accept the...
Experts: 'Those who know more and more, about less and less, until they know absolutely everything there is too know about nothing'.
Given the multi-disciplinary complexities of climate change, the only experts I'd really trust (regarding an overall opinion) are statisticians.
There was an interesting update on the biofuels debate carried in the 'International Herald Tribune' last Wednesday.
"In a recommendation released last weekend, the 20-member panel [reporting to the European Environment Agency], made up of some of Europe's most distinguished climate...
Drawoh, I don't know about the US WW1 Generals, but I suspect there were very few British or colonial engineering generals. Monash was quite unusual, and faced a lot of resistance from the British becuse he wasn't part of the aristocratic 'club'.
It would be an interesting study, to try to...
I'm just wondering what a structural sales engineer might sell.. Brooklyn Bridges?
Seriously though, I'd rather buy a roof truss from a guy that knew how to design one than from someone who could (maybe) just read the catalogue.
Not sure I see the logic of biofuels... Why use cheap, concentrated, easily transportable fuels (oil and gas) in fixed heating or power generating stations, and then go to all the trouble of converting a solid, low density organic material into a liquid fuel? Why not just burn the bioenergy...
General Sir John Monash (D.Eng) was a civil engineer, but he's better known for winning World War One. The first time that Australian and American troops fought together (and the first time US troops fought under a non-American) was at the battle of Hamel, July 4th 1918, under Monash's command...
I've studied at some very obscure (or to be kind, 'specialist') universities, and certainly haven't found it any barrier. As Francesca mentioned, it's the topic of your thesis and the papers that you publish that will get you noticed. If Irvine can offer you an interesting and relevant thesis...
