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Upcoming Webinars at PDHengineer: November 2024 To see the full schedule for the month, click the link in the comments below. #Engineering #Webinars #PDHengineer

Happy Halloween from PDHengineer! It’s that time of year for spooky fun and engineering tricks! Whether you're crafting clever costumes or diving into haunted design challenges, we hope your Halloween is filled with thrills, chills, and lots of treats. Stay safe, stay spooky, and have a frightfully fun night! #HappyHalloween #PDHengineer #SpookySeason #EngineeringFun

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Cypress Street Viaduct Collapse On October 17, 1989, Ruth Anne Liu-Johnston left her office in San Francisco and traveled toward downtown Oakland. On her way, she drove across the Bay Bridge and took the I-880 connector. As she drove, she noticed her speedometer indicating that she was driving too fast. Ruth Ann tried to hit the brakes, but nothing happened. “I thought I was speeding, but I wasn’t. I was airborne,” she recalled. Just as Ruth Ann traveled across the top deck of the Cypress Structure, a powerful earthquake, the Loma Prieta quake, shook the earth. “From the corner of my eye, I saw the guardrail snap—that’s when I knew this was an earthquake,” Ruth Ann recalled. The Loma Prieta earthquake shook most of northern California, causing tremors from Santa Cruz to Sacramento, and causing the upper deck of the Cypress Structure to slam onto its lower deck. The next thing that Liu-Johnston remembered was being pulled out of her car in the top deck of the Cypress Structure and placed into the back of a green pickup. The Loma Prieta earthquake caused an estimated 6 billion dollars in damage and resulted in 3,900 injuries and 63 deaths, and more than half of these deaths were on the Cypress Structure. California is traditionally built in preparation for earthquakes, so why wasn’t the Cypress Viaduct able to withstand the quake? Follow the link in the comments below for the full article. #EngineeringEthics #ProfessionalDevelopment #PDHengineer #PDHcredits

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The October Ethical Dilemma: Engineer vs. Architect (Results) This is the October 2024 edition of our monthly series of Ethics case studies titled What Do You Think? This series is comprised of case studies from NSPE archives, involving both real and hypothetical matters submitted by engineers, public officials, and members of the public. Your peers and the NSPE Board of Ethical Review have reviewed the facts of the case as shown below. And, here are the results. A Review of the Facts Engineer Annie is retained by an architect to provide mechanical engineering services in connection with the design of a small office building. Annie performs her services and thereafter a dispute arises between Annie and the architect as to Annie’s final compensation for her services. The issue is never finally resolved. Several months later, the owner, who retained the architect on the project, requested that Annie provide him with a copy of the final record drawings in order to perform certain work on the building which does not involve issues of safety or health. The owner offers to pay Annie the cost of reproduction and any administrative staff costs and to attempt to mediate the dispute between Annie and the architect. Annie refuses to provide the owner with a copy of the drawings and declines the owner’s offer to mediate the dispute. What Do You Think? Was it ethical for Annie to refuse to provide the owner with a copy of the drawings and to decline the owner’s offer to attempt to mediate the dispute between Annie and the architect? (To continue reading, click the link in the Comments section.) #EngineeringEthics #Engineering #EthicalDilemma #PDHengineer

Riddle Me This: Nuts, Bolts, Nuts & Bolts In front of you are three closed metal boxes. One is labeled “Nuts,” one is labeled “Bolts,” and one is labeled “Nuts & Bolts.” You know that every box is incorrectly labeled and you would like to rearrange the labels so that each box is correct. By making only one selection from one box, how can you be sure to properly re-label each box? Share your thoughts down in the comments section. #EngineeringChallenge #Engineer #PDHengineer #RiddleMeThis

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The October Ethical Dilemma: Engineer vs. Architect This is the October 2024 edition of our monthly series of Ethics case studies titled What Do You Think? This series is comprised of case studies from NSPE archives, involving both real and hypothetical matters submitted by engineers, public officials, and members of the public. Your peers and the NSPE Board of Ethical Review have reviewed the facts of the case as shown below. And, here are the results. A Review of the Facts Engineer Annie is retained by an architect to provide mechanical engineering services in connection with the design of a small office building. Annie performs her services and thereafter a dispute arises between Annie and the architect as to Annie’s final compensation for her services. The issue is never finally resolved. Several months later, the owner, who retained the architect on the project, requested that Annie provide him with a copy of the final record drawings in order to perform certain work on the building which does not involve issues of safety or health. The owner offers to pay Annie the cost of reproduction and any administrative staff costs and to attempt to mediate the dispute between Annie and the architect. Annie refuses to provide the owner with a copy of the drawings and declines the owner’s offer to mediate the dispute. What Do You Think? Was it ethical for Annie to refuse to provide the owner with a copy of the drawings and to decline the owner’s offer to attempt to mediate the dispute between Annie and the architect? (To continue reading, click the link in the Comments section.) #EngineeringEthics #Engineering #EthicalDilemma #PDHengineer