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Aerial photos of complex highway interchanges give engineers some props!

I remember being fascinated by them as a kid, especially how anyone maneuvered them successfully without crashing. I still wonder the same thing when taking an offramp in places like Atlanta, LA, and Houston. You can imagine the immense planning and

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Amazing hydrophobic spray - available at Home Depot!

Watching the video won me over. I have to try this stuff on something. Anything!!!

I'm thinking I might be able to weatherproof my leather jacket and shoes, I like the beer box cooler idea in the vid, and certainly it looks like a great treatment for

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Engineering Books

I don’t know about you, but I still enjoy the tangible feeling of a book in my hands, flipping through the pleasantly static-clung pages, using the index over and over until it’s practically memorized.  So here are some great sources on the web to ge

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Engineering Calculators - Web and Mobile

Here is a roundup of some popular and useful calculator sites on the web. Most of them are java based except for the Android and Apple ones for your mobile devices. It’s great to calculate on the go, or in the office, so here are some solutions for b

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Google's Strategy Explained

A fascinating explanation of a corporate outlier that has some very unique ways of defining a corporate strategy. Possible inspiration for the next disruptive tech companies, surely.

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Introducing Senior Member status

Prolific poster? Amazing answerer? Incorrigible contributor?

Then you deserve Senior Member status! 

I've created a special Senior Member Only forum. It's so special, that only SMs can see it. It's super, it's special, and it's all for you.

If I reco

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The NSA doesn't track cellphones - or does it?

According to this report, the NSA doesn't track cellphone location data and store it the same way it has allegedly been collecting call records under the now infamous secret programs that Edward Snowden blew the whistle on. But do you believe that th

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Gorilla Glass headed to the auto market - not just for phones anymore?

Have you had a smartphone with Gorilla Glass from Dow Corning? As a Motorola enthusiast, my last two phones have had it and I must admit, while not indestructible, it is a serious upgrade to the phones I'd had before, and didn't seem to add heft, wei

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15 Reasons to Date an Engineer

I think I had a t-shirt in undergrad with 10 reasons, but I don't remember them being quite this good!

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Forum rules and format - please read!

Unlike some other engineering forums, I want this site to be as inclusive as possible. Everyone involved in innovation knows that sometimes you must look outside your own domain expertise to find novel solutions to problems that may not be obviously

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