[New Forum] Engineering

DMT

Board Name: Engineering
Description: Civil, electrical/electronic, mechanical and other engineering discussion.
Private Y/N: N

As an final year electronic engineering student, I thought that it might be a good idea to have an engineering board to discuss all things engineering.

I propose that it goes under the Science hierarchy, if approved.

ozt9vdujny3srf

I aint sure it would get enough interest to justify its own board, but who knows!

thumbs up from me anyways because electronic engineering is what i wanna do in college.

GuanYin

I've no problem with it.

Alot of maths/Physics may already account for what you would envisage there, but I'm happy enough if the admins want to create it.

Atreides

I'm also an Engineering student, and I know there are several other engineers or student engineers on Boards. I fully support the creation of such a forum. While I don't feel there is a great need for it, I do feel that if you build it they will come. Especially if the caliber of discussion is of a high enough standard. This forum could be invaluable for young students of engineering.

TheSonOfBattles

Why not just make a student board so that people could discuss there courses and subjects, and help each other with projects and stuff. There'd be a much more livly atmosphere in there, and a lot more discussion and diversity.

Sangre

College Work

Atreides

There allready is a student Forum, College work. Just saying it would be of benefit to college students.

conZ

Maybe 'Construction/Engineering'?

-> architecture, general building, etc. and what DMT said.

Under the Sci/Tech board.

Atreides

Would construction not come under engineering anyway, I know I do a fair amount of construction studies, environmental studies and architecture in my course

ecksor

What Syke said. I'm tempted to think that a lot of the discussion that would end up here is already covered by the science forums, unless you wish to restrict to engineering methods and techniques specifically?

Atreides

restrict to engineering methods and techniques specifically

Please clarify what you mean by this. There are certain areas in Mathimatics and Physics that relate completely to Engineering and construction, true, but i doubt your going to have a forum full of people chatting about eigen vectors/values,guass elimination and curvilinear motion, Maybe you will, but personally I think it would be put to much wider use. All depends on the type of people who use it.

ecksor

Examples of topics that would come to my mind are methods for providing fault tolerance or improving reliability in a system, also analysis techniques such as failure mode effects analysis, fault trees, etc. But essentially any discussions of how engineers engineer, from project management to the economics of it to the actual job of building the finished product.

However, I was sort of hoping that the people who want to use the forum would actually clarify it and provide answers ...

po0k

architecture RTL of Sci / Tech is
signal me : std_elec_eng;
signal Engineering, Programming, Security, Technology : std_logic;
signal Electronics, Web : std_logic_vector(1 downto 0);
signal Operating Systems : std_logic_vector (2 downto 0);
signal Nets / Comms : std_logic_vector (3 downto 0);
signal Science : std_logic_vector (4 downto 0);
begin
process (Engineering)
begin
if Engineering ='1' then me = "happy";
else me = "bored";
end if;
end process;
end RTL;

Atreides

ecksor, all fine points and I would be happy of a place to discuss those. Personally When I think of the forum I think, circuit design,pspice, electronics, com systems, Bridge design using matlab/AutoCAD, increased efficiency of systems, Material studies, Integrating electronics and mechanics, and also all those things specific to engineering but which may also be covered by several other forums individually.

Victor

I've been thinking of this for a while and it's very difficult to come up with a clear definition. As I see it the majority of Engineering is broken down into:

Civil
Structural
Building Services
Mechanical
Electrical
Electronic

The top end is close to my two boards (Accommodation / Property, Commuting / Transport) while the latter is the true nerd land of Sci / Tech. Something lost is hard design (Art covers "soft" design) of Architecture, Sculpture, Industrial Design, etc.

Also Construction (Civil, Structural & Building Services Engineering, Architecture, Surveying) sometimes ends up in Gardening / DIY.

Woden

and chemical engineers who even though i've worked with them it still escapes me extactly what they do, i suppose some of there stuff would be covered by chemistry and some of the others victor mentioned.

Atreides

Originally posted by Dataisgod
and chemical engineers who even though i've worked with them it still escapes me extactly what they do, i suppose some of there stuff would be covered by chemistry and some of the others victor mentioned.

Some would come under Civil, I don't exactly know what they do in chemical engineering, but I've been told its very different to what one would study under chemistry as a science.

Victor

Originally posted by Skanger
Some would come under Civil, I don't exactly know what they do in chemical engineering, but I've been told its very different to what one would study under chemistry as a science.

Ooops, how could I forget them, with 3 in the family (one sells filtration, one designs plant, the last runs a pharma company as general manager) They basicly put all the pipes and gadgets together to optimise the production of a chemical They also earn waaaay too much money.

Gordon

Originally posted by Victor
I've been thinking of this for a while and it's very difficult to come up with a clear definition..

Victor has spoken.

Mad Mike

Not sure if boards.ie is the ideal place for a technical Q&A forum but if we don't try we never find out. I for one will try and do my bit to make contributions.

I've a notion that that to be a success that type of forum really needs a few extremely altruistic experts who will make regular knowledgable contributions. You are bound to get plenty of people who only half know what they are talking about. I used to suscribe to alt.sci.electronics and I remember that Winfield Hill (one of the authors of the superb reference book: "The Art of Electronics") was a voracious correspondent. As a practising electronics designer it was fantastic to be able to get a free opinion from one of the World's greatest experts but he must have spent hours every day at this.

Victor

Originally posted by Gordon
Victor has spoken.

PFOAD :P

Woden

oh i don't think it should go under the science branch though, as though engineering contains elements of science and all that its not science its engineering put it in sci/tech

Mad Mike

Originally posted by Dataisgod
oh i don't think it should go under the science branch though, as though engineering contains elements of science and all that its not science its engineering put it in sci/tech

Time, I think, for for a cheesy quote:

"Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was." Theodore von Karman

Good Engineering is about creation not just about about discovery. Really good engineering is closer to Art than to Science. The new bridge in Dundrum springs to mind.

Woden

so your in agreement then,

with regards to engineering being art everything in the vain of science, maths, engineering has can have an artistic aspect to it, the elegance of a proof, the beauty and simplicity of certain of certain molecules etc.

towbar

Would be keen to see a place for electronics projects discussions as current sci\tech electronics section doesn't seem to welcome such discussions. An Engineering board with subsections for each discipline would seem ideal.

Capt'n Midnight

Thumbs up !

Genetic Engineering ?

I think we can dispense with Software Engineering & Social engineering as they are more art forms than true engineering.

Woden

Originally posted by towbar
Would be keen to see a place for electronics projects discussions as current sci\tech electronics section doesn't seem to welcome such discussions.

i have to disagree with with this statement, usually any thread thats even remotely related to a forum is most welcome there, i'm sure there would be no problems with electronics projects discussion in the sci/tech forum

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Victor

Originally posted by Dataisgod
i have to disagree with with this statement, usually any thread thats even remotely related to a forum is most welcome there, i'm sure there would be no problems with electronics projects discussion in the sci/tech forum

Most mods will bin a thread if it smells of "do my project for me".

Woden

he did say discussion though, i've posted stuff up before looking for help with project work no problem

Atreides

Originally posted by Victor
Most mods will bin a thread if it smells of "do my project for me".

Victor I've used your forum and many of your post to help we out with my civil engineering projects (from a traffic management point of view)

towbar

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I was referring only to the forum that I thought was the most obvious place for Electronics discussion because it uses that title Sci/Tech - Electronics

One would expect that to be a place for Electronics discussion but reading the sticky it both those forums seems to suggest that these are not setup for general electronic discussion.


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