Check this out: the Fluid Controls Institute Technical Resources Page. If you have to select piping elements, the papers will help you. Things like:
If you need a practical read on “what do these different types of equipment mean mean?” then try it.
I just read Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn’t, and Why: 10 Things You’d Better Do If You Want to Get Ahead
The best points are bold, if you’re in a rush focus on those.
Ever had to select insulation for a new pipe, or estimate the energy losses from pipes and equipment? Or do the economic justification for thicker insulation? Try either of the two free programs in this post.
Try out 3e Plus from NAIMA, the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association. This free program lets you model the energy losses from pipes and tanks, at different windspeeds, different materials, insulation thicknesses, etc. The program also has modules (that I have never personally tried) to translate your calculations into dollars or greenhouse gas emissions. Thereby making it easier to justify the purchase of more insulation!!
Hahaha…but no, sarcasm aside it’s a great little program. Try it out. Unfortunately they do not document the method they are using to perform the calculations. A few observations of my own:
Got a couple of interesting links today, one on the levels of job satisfaction (happiness at work) of engineers, and another on women in science technology engineering and math (STEM) careers.
First off: the Engineering Job Satisfaction Article by Mechanical Engineering Magazine. I read this article for one thing, and it sent me off on another tangent.
The survey questions asked about general workplace experiences, such as the size and industry of employer, impressions about the connections between work and engineering school, post-graduation educational experiences, and satisfaction with workplace.
…For instance, within three years of graduation, 71 percent of men and 61 percent of women who earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering were still in engineering jobs. But among those who graduated in 1985-1987, only 35 percent of women and 53 percent of men who had engineering bachelor’s degrees reported that they were in engineering jobs.
The article then seeks to find out why people who leave are leaving.
I found a free tool that will automatically, intelligently let you format tables of data or databases: Magic/Replace
Basically, you feed it columns of data, and make a change to the first row. And then it will do it’s best to intelligently copy your changes throughout the data.
So I can take data in yyyy/mm/dd and change it to read mm-dd-yy. I can force all capitals or remove all capitals from people’s names. I can remove the punctuation from phone numbers and pull the area code into a separate column. I can take a list of e-mail addresses and replace the @ symbol with “- at -” to try and avoid the spam-bots.
All in all, it can help you avoid a lot of painful slicing and dicing of data via complicated functions.
The best introduction is to watch the introductory video and play with the sample dataset.
Tips: In some cases it helps to use copying and pasting rather than deleting and re-typing. Also, make any complicated change in several smaller steps so that you’re sure it works out: it seems easier to lead the website to the correct action when you do small changes.
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