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    Trip Generation Internal Capture

    Hi, Does anyone have any experience with using internal capture rate deductions in trip generation estimates? I have a 17-acre parcel in a suburban setting. The proposed development is a mix of retail, restaurant, grocery, and hotel. I am reviewing a traffic impact analysis study and it shows...
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    Arrogant Engineers

    Bradpa77, Quote "I am proud of it, but I don't feel the need to advertise it or flaunt it in front of people." So you say that you do not need to "flaunt it in front of people" Doesn't this statement itself sound a little arrogant? I mean you are assuming that you have something to "flaunt"...
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    work after having baby

    Hello Metgirl05. I am a work-outside-the-home Mom, (PE with about 13 years in civil engineering). I have two kids, 7 and 4. I hear what your saying. My opinion on your questions . . . You said: "I am worried that with less than a year of experience and then 4 or 5 years off that once I am...
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    Women in the workplace...

    After I wrote that post, I realized that I might have sounded too negative. So I wanted to add. Keep your chin up girl! Focus on the positive! Keep your sense of humor. I have had MANY positive experiences as a female engineer, really. Even regarding the negative experiences, "What doesn't kill...
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    Women in the workplace...

    Kmtswims, I am a female civil engineer and here are some of my random experiences over the last 12 years. My former boss told me that I had to work harder because I was a female engineer. When I was in college, I had a male student tell me I couldn't be in civil engineering because that was...
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    Poll - Pond Routing Software

    Hello All, I am a PE in Pennsylvania. Our firm is looking to upgrade our stormwater software, particularly the pond routing program. We currently use Hastead Pondpack, however it is a very old version. I am looking for recommendations on pond routing software. What pond routing software do you...
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    PondPack - oriface question

    I have an older version of pondpack. This is what I do. I input two separate structures (a weir and orifice) and use the "start" and "stop" elevations to specify where the calcuations start and stop for each individual structure. First I input a weir with the the length specified. Then I input...
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    help from superiors (or the lack of)

    Unlike some of the other posters, I understand what you are asking. In a perfect world it would be nice to be able to have a supervisor or other senior engineer(s) to depend on to help you solve the 5% or so work problems that you could use some help on. In some cases, senior engineers or...
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    young eng's

    Recently, I have thought a lot about what makes a person (not just engineers) successful. Two common characteristics come to mind when I look at successful people. 1. They are not afraid to be unconventional, "buck the system" or fail. 2. They do what they want/like to do and they don't do...
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    Need an honest answer

    Bacon4life; I think it is ethical to not mention that you may take some time off. My reasons why its ok; 1. You do not know exactly when you would have children and it could very well be a while, either by choosing to wait to have children or taking a while to conceive. 2. You may change your...
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    Need Help with Project Organization.

    Hi Patrick, I am a civil engineer too. In the past,I have used the Calendar function in Microsoft Outlook. You can "make an appointment" with yourself, say two weeks from now to follow up a phone call or whatever. Then you can program "reminders" to pop up on your computer screen at any...
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    Need an honest answer

    Oh yeah and we DO want to hear the good jokes!
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    Need an honest answer

    When I started engineering 11 years ago, I thought prejudice was fading and nearly a thing of the past. Apparently I was being overly optimistic. Things I hate about being a female engineer; 1. When a young inexperienced male engineer doesn't know something, he is "green." When a young...
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    Need an honest answer

    Thanks for all of your great and honest responses. I think it mainly is a result of the part time situation and I just need to be an adult about it and accept that I have made my choice to work part time and accept the consequences. I also should keep a postive attitude and treat all projects as...
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    Need an honest answer

    What do you think of women engineers? Or is it impossible to make such a generalization? I am a female engineer, 35, married with children so I work only part time, (four days a week). I sometimes feel like I do not get the big important jobs to work on and this is frustrating, personally and...
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