FRIDAY FUNNY: Watch Your Step…

HeidiTFM — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:34:45 +0000

Staircases are just staircases, right? Well, not always. Sometimes, a clever designer taps the talents of a diligent engineer, and the results can be pretty impressive.

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ASHRAE Publishes Update to Principles of HVAC

HeidiTFM — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:59:56 +0000

The new resource contains the most current ASHRAE procedures and definitive, yet easy to understand, treatment of building HVAC systems, from basic principles through design and operation.

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Engineering Ingenuity

HeidiTFM — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:20:49 +0000

It’s the end of Summer ‘09, and people are starting to get back to reality. Kids are going back to school, manufacturing is gearing up for a tenuous economic recovery, and engineers are doing what they do best–”MacGyver”-ing whatever they can to keep things chugging along.

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WEIRD WEDNESDAY: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

HeidiTFM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:25:54 +0000

In the early hours of Saturday, June 27, 2009, something seriously wrong happened to a nearly completed 13 story block of residential flats in the suburbs of Shanghai. No, it wasn’t destroyed by Transformers.

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Murphy’s Lesser Known Laws

HeidiTFM — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:41:53 +0000

Typically, facility managers appreciate the classic Murphy’s Laws (which go back as far as 1841, according to Wikipedia, but were formalized in 1877 at a meeting of an engineering society). This week, we have Peter SJF Bance to thank (again) for these lesser known laws from Murphy.

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Niels B. Christiansen Becomes President and Chief Executive Officer At Danfoss

HeidiTFM — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:56:33 +0000

Jorgen M. Clausen retires and will become chairman.

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WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Inside The Particle Accelerator

HeidiTFM — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:43:06 +0000

Early this morning, science was made in a remote part of Europe. Some of you may have seen the video last Friday, and others may have heard about it on the news, but today was the day when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) did its thing…with a bang.

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Yo! Engineering Gets Even Cooler

HeidiTFM — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:35:22 +0000

Wanna be cool? Impress your fellow engineers with this hit YouTube rap all about particle physics. Don’t forget to share it with your friends!

by HeidiTFM