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    Your grades in university and where you are now

    In my area of focus, passing the EIT exam seemed to be of paramount importance to most of my interviewing companies right out of school. I listed my GPA on my resume, but of more concern was that I had passed the FE Exam. I also feel that the Grade Point Average varies by school. For...
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    Water Tower Design Criteria

    The structural design of Elevated Water Tanks, along with some Ground Storage Tanks, is a publication put out by the American Water Works Association. The latest revision is 2005. Historically, the code is only updated in approximately 10 year intervals, so most are slow to adapt to the new...
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    Greek Characters

    I have looked in the Help Menu, but it appears to me that it only describes inserting such characters in plot(), not fprintf(). Am I missing something?
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    Greek Characters

    Does anyone know how I can insert Greek characters into the text string of a fprintf statement? For example, I would like to have something along the lines of: fprintf('Concrete Shear Capacity (phi*Vc) = %3.0f \n', OneWayShearCap); As opposed to typing phi, I would like to insert the Greek...
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    What is EG & FG elevation

    EG = Existing Grade FG = Finished Grade Often, there is a difference, as most construction sites are 'leveled' by means of excavating or by placing 'engineered fill'.
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    Definition of an Engineer

    A scientist is someone who develops the theory or law. An engineer is one who applies that theory or law and has to sign off on the drawing.

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