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This may seem like a silly question but how do you know what to charge your clients? I am thinking of starting my own Land Surveying/PE firm and know how to do the tech stuff but am clueless on the biz side of the equation. Thanks John

I am an RLS in Tennessee and the one thing that I know of (in TN) is GPS is not an approved method of describing the property. You still need the Metes and Bounds system to use in the Colonial states. If it was me I would have a much easier time w/ the TS then the GPS because of the ease in not...

an answer to whyun's question about revoking the eng. lic. over lack of PDHs... TN started requiring PDHs for surveyors and eng. several years ago The first couple of years they were kept by hand and if you were a couple days late it was ok but... I had the honor of being the first on the new...

Let me know exactly what you want to do and I can help John

I, like Cass, am going to school to get the ABET degree. I have worked in the engineering, surveying field for 30+ years and have worked both inside (designing) and out (making the design work). The problem to me with school is with the example, problems, etc. being so otherworldly with their...

The job that I enjoyed the most was the construction of a power plant. This was fairly early in my career (early 30s), but was getting old enough to be listened to, at least occasionally. This was for a retrofit and adding of an Electrostatic Precipitator and changing the boiler from forced...

Bill and Slugger What you say is true about earning your PE by experience is true, there is some more info you need to know. I started school in the early 70’s and took about two years of classes. I then went to work surveying, which led to construction engineering. I earned an RLS and went...

Qshake Is the cooler air not denser then the warm air that it displaces, which causes the flow out into the warmer room? John

I would think the pumps where never meant to protect against levee breaks but was a method to pump the storm water run off out of the basin six inches of rain water would take a half day or so John

I dont know the acreage of the basin but I the internet had 199 square miles 127,360 acres so 127,360 times 4 feet?? of flood water average 510,000 acre feet of water 165,900 million gallons pumping at 30,000 per day about 5 and a half days if they dont blow the levee and only pump it...

Please help a poor dumb CIVILian Thanks to SlideRuleEra excellent link I was reading on the New Orleans pumping system. I then Goggled some more and saw that they ran at 25 Hz (some articles had 50 Hz) Couple of questions Is there some advantage to running the motors like this….. like the...

Very (super) cool, It was just something I had been taught back in the early 70s Thanks for the heads up John

Greg It helps me to remember the ultimate villain, entropy. It takes more energy to put the gasoline together then the energy released by combustion. Thus I remember that all systems will try to move toward a less energetic state, i.e. hot will try to move to cold. (Of course, opening the...

More info The Department of Biomedical Engineering is in the School of Engineering. In addition to the M.Eng., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, the faculty supervises an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited B.E. degree program in biomedical engineering for undergraduate...

If I am not mistaken, here in Nashville, over at Vandy, they have a dual degree w/ a masters in ME and a MD. They work in the bio eng field w/ replacement hearts joints etc. John