12 tips for becoming a successful engineer:
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1. Define Your Goals. Define where you would like to be as an engineer in the medium and long-term.
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Santa: be realistic
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Number of launches by rocket family in 2022:
Falcon 🇺🇸 59/59/0
Long March 🇨🇳 57/57/0
R-7 🇷🇺 19/19/0
Electron 🇺🇸 9/9/0
Atlas 🇺🇸 7/7/0
Kuaizhou 🇨🇳 5/5/0
SLV 🇮🇳 5/4/1
Ariane 🇪🇺 3/3/0
Astra 🇺🇸 3/1/2
Angara 🇷🇺 2/2/0
Antares 🇺🇸 2/2/0
Ceres 🇨🇳 2/2/0
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8. Evolution and Natural Selection
9. Theory of General Relativity
10. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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10 scientific laws and theories you really should know:
1. Big Bang Theory
2. Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion
3. Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
4. Universal Law of Gravitation
5. Newton's Laws of Motion
6. Laws of Thermodynamics
7. Archimedes' Buoyancy Principle
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“Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.”
– Jacob Bronowski
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How old your Twitter account is?
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Life tip: When you sign up for anything online, put the website’s name as your middle name. That way when you receive spam/advert emails, you will know who sold your info.
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Orbital launches 🚀 in 2022:
USA 🇺🇸 85/82/2
China 🇨🇳 62/60/2
Russia 🇷🇺 22/22/0
India 🇮🇳 5/4/1
Europe 🇪🇺 4/4/0
Iran 🇮🇷 1/1/0
Japan 🇯🇵 1/0/1
South Korea 🇰🇷 1/1/0
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Thermal conductivity of different building materials W/(m·K):
Polyurethane foam: 0.024
Mineral wool: 0.04
Rubber foam: 0.1
Wood: 0.13
Gypsum board: 0.17
Aerated concrete: 0.303
Glass: 1.053
Marble/Ceramic: 1.298
Concrete: 1.448
Granite: 2.927
Steel: 47.6
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On Dec. 18, 1979, LEGO toy figure was patented.
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Name a Sci-Fi movie that you have watched over 5 times and still enjoy.
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World of Engineering Quiz:
Which type of valve is good for regulating flow and uses a cylinder movement over a seat?
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Ball valve
Butterfly valve
Gate valve
Globe valve
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How old were you when you realized there is an 8 in the middle of the 8 of diamonds card ♦️?
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Nearly 75 percent of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today due to recycling.
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Six productivity rules from :
1. Stop holding large meetings
2. Stop holding frequent meetings
3. Feel free to walk out of useless meetings
4. Stop following chain of command
5. Stop limiting communication between departments
6. Stop following stupid rules.
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Human fingers can detect objects as small as 13 nanometers.
If your finger were the size of Earth, you'd be able to feel the difference between apartment buildings and cars.
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Life tip: If you want a smarter kid, teach your child to read as early as possible and instill in them a love for books. Because as soon as they can read, they can teach themselves.
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On Dec 17, 1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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Mechanical reasoning test. How much force do you need to balance the lever?
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“You have to respect other people’s opinions”
Their opinion: 3²=6
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Without naming your country, what’s your country famous for?
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AI technology that I use:
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World of Engineering Quiz:
What is the escape velocity on the Moon (km/s) 🚀?
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What is a subtle sign that someone is really intelligent?
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5. Manage your risks. Risk management is the process of identifying risks, evaluating them, and limiting or mitigating those that could prevent you from reaching the overall goal.
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4. Set milestones, do it again. When you use milestones to plan, you create distinct points where you will check your progress. An interesting fact about a landmark is, that you have either reached it, or you have not.
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3. Frequent communication. Once the project has kicked off, you need to keep your team in the loop constantly. No one likes a surprise so you must inform your team ahead of time about any changes in each stage of the project management.
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2. Project planning. Project planning is a part of successful project management that uses schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment.
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1. Clear objectives and project scope. Make it clear to yourself, the team and every individual who would partake throughout the project why you are doing this project. It would be amiss to initiate a project and still have to attend to questions about clarity midway.
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5 Rules you need to follow for successful project management:
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Life tip: Always return a car borrowed from a friend in better condition than when it was lent to you. Return it with a full tank of gas or cleaner than when it was lent to you.
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Illumination levels for different spaces (lux):
Work space, offices: 500
Kitchen: 500
Fitness: 500
Child care: 500
Conference room: 300
Corridor: 200
Stairwell: 200
Toilet: 200
Dining area: 150-200
Parking: 50
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Comment an underrated app that everyone should download.
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Engineers, what does your every day carry (EDC) look like?
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On Dec 15, 2005 – Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
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The sky on Mars is red and its sunsets are blue, exactly the opposite of Earth's.
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42) In the absence of schedule pressure, a full-time employee allocates, on average, 60% of his working hours to the project (the rest is slack time: reading mail, personal activities, non-project related company business, etc.).
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41) As schedule pressure increases, quality assurance activities (especially walk-throughs and inspections) are often relaxed or suspended altogether.
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39) Above a certain threshold, work conditions are not a powerful motivator, but below that threshold, they are a powerful de-motivator.
40) The average assimilation delay, the period of time it takes for a new employee to become fully productive, is 80 days.
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