I have to agree with rmw on his post about saving peoples lives. My greatest achievment was designing a left hand entrance door on the school buses for New York -- This way the children didn't have to cross the busy one streets to get to the school bus -- the bus had to get in the correct lane...
Your question was "Is there an online calculator or a formula to figure this out. I don't know about an online calculator -- but the formula you are looking for is in the Machinery's Handbook under Working Strehgnth of Bolts -- this will give you your equations needed for thread engagements...
You will most certainly have to move house. Every position I have had, including right out of school, I have had to move to "Where the money is"....
Be prepared for this...
You will have to pick a field you have sufficient knowledge in other than the specialist field you have...
It sounds as if there are a lot of people that think this type of learning is something new... something of the computer generation. I was in vietnam getting combat pay and kept up with my schooling. -- when I got back home it only took me 1 year to complete my degree because a Military school...
I'm with Cajun. If I design something, I want to create the specifications.
If you are an ISO9000 or other certified company there are documentations that you create to depict the the specifications. ie... (Functional Specification Documentation)-- These are released with the ECN package and...
Remember -- Once you stamp your approval -- "Its your baby" -- You will be held responsible for your actions. I have been in situations where my employment was threatened. I still kept my integrity and refused to aprove based on coercion.... Do not give in unless your willing to pay...
I have been employed by at least 3 Large company's. In the Billions per year...Ethics has been a major problem for all of them. Accepting small gifts of $25.00 or less was acceptable, any thing over that was not.
I for one do not see a problem here. The only reason a vendor, or customer...
