Pee Vee or Something
Wright Engineers is part of a design-build team under contract to convert Alcatraz to solar PV electricity. As part of our services, some of our engineers have had to climb all over the buildings. I wondered what it would be like if one of them was "caught" and treated as an Alcatraz escapee.July 2010 Wright e-News
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Solar Project
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Build - Then Design
Many of the public projects these days are design-build, a good project delivery method if the construction and design teams partner well together. By having the design team and the construction team to collaborate from the start, the final design can perform better, be easier to build, and cost less. .
No matter how heated the rush to "git 'er dun", I've never seen a build-then-design approach that didn't end in disappointment.
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Rush The Rush Job
I love the post office scene in the Jim Carrey movie The Grinch where the postmaster is frantically receiving packages at the counter, stamping them as "RUSH" or "HECKUVA RUSH", and then tossing them back over his shoulder..
With the instant responses that are expected these days via phone, text, or email, almost everything seems to be a "heckuva rush".
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April 2010 Wright e-news
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Calling In Life
I visited my daughter Anjuli's 2nd grade class recently (she's the teacher, not a student) to explain what an engineer does and help the students build towers with paper cups, Popsicle sticks and tin foil. All of the students were bright and very cute....
...and more like the kid on the right.
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The Right Brain
You wouldn't know it by most of the cartoons I've drawn (including this one), but I hate the stereotype of the nerdy, pencil-neck-geek number-crunching engineer with thick glasses and an undeveloped right brain. Yet, here I go again, advancing the engineer geek stereotype in another cartoon. .
Though many engineers do seem to have a relatively undeveloped creative right brain when compared with their analytical left brain, the best engineers are both very analytical and highly creative.
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For reference, I have included a scale drawing of my own brain scan in Figure 4.
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