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    Sustainability in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1st cannon of code of ethics

    IR, I agree with you about its importance, but wouldn't the formation of a new canon (added to the current ones) dedicated to sustainability be better than lumping it in with public safety? And if they wanted to combine it in with something else, why didn't they combine sustainability with any...
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    Sustainability in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1st cannon of code of ethics

    Thanks for your time and the thoughts. I agree with all. In particular, truckandbus, I see what you mean about that part being secondary to public safety-I agree. It's very strange the wording they chose to use though... "shall," and "comply" tend to be pretty hard-hitting in the...
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    Sustainability in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1st cannon of code of ethics

    I haven’t seen much discussion on this (if any), which mainly relates to civil engineering practice. Then again, maybe it's also something going on in other engineering disciplines too... The ASCE 1st fundamental cannon of the code of ethics is written as follows: Engineers shall hold paramount...
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    Atterberg limit question

    I typically report with no %. The explanation about the limits being water contents yet, more importantly, soil behavior indices has always resonated with me.
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    DCP to SPT II

    I saw that Moe had a post (now a closed thread) about DCP to SPT correlations and related items. I thought I'd share a recent paper of mine that considers some things along these lines (SPT to Sowers DCP correlations, various somewhat interesting ways in which the DCP might be used, results of...
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    How is Everyone?

    Doing great here, all! Just really busy....mostly kids, but life is good. PE, keep us posted on your adventures-great looking vessel. And congratulations, fattdad-must be quite a feeling!
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    Personal . . .

    Wow! That's really awesome, BigH! Congratulations, and thanks for this news! He's a cute little dude. How often can you see him?
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    I'm still around-MRM

    That's great, SRE-both about dodging those storms AND about your new adventures in giving back in some big ways!!
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    I'm still around-MRM

    Hi BigH. Maybe so...but my Grandparents never had ipads and other gadgets to keep the kids entertained for two minutes while Dad does his lecture prep for that day. How did they do it?? [surprise] This semester is soil mechanics, with lab; one that I always enjoy, of course! I've got several...
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    I'm still around-MRM

    It's 8:14am here and the kids are temporarily content with their breakfasts for now...but I have to hurry! I could definitely buy in to the "trouble units" theory you've outlined there, SRE. Seems about right to me, up to the three children anyway... Three is definitely different than one, my...
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    I'm still around-MRM

    Hi everyone: It's been about a year now since I've last been on the site...I'm embarrassed to say... SlideruleEra asked me about how my first year went at Gonzaga University back in 2014. I'm so sorry I missed that! It seems like I do one of these updates every couple years lately... I've been...
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    Retaining wall design as a PE in Illinois

    I agree. I've looked on-line first (answer not clear), then I emailed them (no response), then I called them and they took my number down to get back with me (no response after several days). One clue I found in some meeting minutes from the SE board in Illinois suggests that retaining walls...
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    Retaining wall design as a PE in Illinois

    Are PE's permitted to design retaining walls (reinforced modular block, in this case) in the state of Illinois? There is quite a bit of ambiguity in what a PE may design compared to an SE from all of the materials/guides I've seen from the Illinois website about this.
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    Use of EIT/EI/IE designations

    Thanks for the info, BigH. I should do some more investigation of other countries and their professional licensure policies. I could stand to get a little more global in my thinking... JAE-thanks for the laugh today![lol]! I've actually never heard that particular explanation for AIA folks...
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    Use of EIT/EI/IE designations

    Thanks, JAE. That's fairly consistent with what I was finding on the subject...not much of anything at all. So that's probably right that no one (almost [censored]) thinks about this... I just wonder because I'm hearing from a few sources here and there that some states do not recognize it as a...
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