Recent content by swivel63

LOL, this guy said the shaft is being torsionally and axially loaded. i hate engineers sometimes, lol.

honesty is never detrimental to your career.

keep everything on there, and just explain what happened.

it's not worth it. and you don't have any legal grounds. it's only a few hundred bucks.

i heard that cali will still have a 3. and that the new tests take care of use 1 and 2.

from what i heard, you have to take both exams (lateral and vertical) just to be a PE (structural). that kind of sucks.

i was involved in a few forensic cases when i started my career with a design house.....collapses, law suits, construction defects. i had an offer to do this type of work away from my home, but i was afraid i'd lose my engineering touch. much of the work are things that have very little to...

take it. screw his cheap tail later when things get good.

i changed to forensics. i like it. no one is really building, so it was an economic decision at first. but it's fun. and i get to be outside. plus it's something new every day. no shop drawings, no arguing with architects, AND no designing one column 15 times.

i dunno. i was offered a position in michigan about two months ago. i turned it down because i really didn't want to relocate. so i was out of real work and just doing small designs on the side to make myself some money. turns out it was a good idea, about a month and a half after i turned...

first time, i was laid off.....it was a numbers thing. 20% let go, and everyone got a pay cut. it stung, it sucked, and no one was hiring. i liked the position. so i just prayed, and about a month later a "job" came by. note that i didn't say career. 2nd time, i was "fired." boss's sons...

well, i don't know if your biggest problem right now is your education. if you have an MS is Civil/Structural, right? and an additional MS in Arch? yea, i think for everyone.....even seasoned engineers are having a hard time finding work. don't think it's all you, or everything of what we've...

what programs don't check for beam shear? i usually check with quick hand calcs, too. particularly punching shear.

i think everyone's ideas on PHd's in SE are on point. i guess it's a good thing to have, but how often are you really doing that stuff? heck, i don't even some most of the stuff i saw in my master's program. though i saw the prandlt membrane analogy once. i almost laughed and had to call one...

congrats! florida took 8 weeks on the dot (SEI). georgia took damn near like 3.5 months (SEII). good grief.