Getting Things Done, a.k.a. GTD, is a self-help book written by David Allen for people who want to get their lives (not professional or personal, but the whole shebang) under organizational control. I confess that when Jenn first brought this book home I was skeptical. Well, “skeptical” might be a bit of an understatement. “Deriding” …
Category Archives: Professional
55 MPH Around Atlanta
This link takes you to the google-hosted video of an exercise conducted by some students. They examined the effect on I-285 around Atlanta when everyone is forced to drive the legal speed limit (55 MPH). Some background for anyone who doesn’t live or drive around Atlanta: I-285 encompasses the entirety of the downtown metropolitan area, …
Writing for Non-Physicists
Argh! I, admittedly, am not a fizzisist. However, as a Mechanical Engineering graduate specializing in mechanical design, I was more in tune with it than (say) your average Civil Engineering graduate specializing in transportation. For example: From the AASHTO, “A policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets (2004),” pg. 135, here is the following …
That's a Lot of Paper
I work for an Engineering Consultant firm. As part of our job, we prepare plans and a step in the Georgia Department of Transportation’s plan review process is to plot multiple (11) sets of both full-sized (22″x34″) and half-sized plans. For submittals like this one, we utilize a firm that specializes in plotting large quantities …
Microsoft Word Help
I found a glorious site yesterday that deals with all sorts of the common issues you run into if you use Microsoft Word. The Word MVP Site will give you definite ideas of what to do and what under no circumstances you should ever do, and it will tell you why! The why is the …
Engineer Girl!
Know a middle- or high-schooler girl who might want to enter an Essay Contest? Try the Engineering: Improving Our World Essay Contest from the National Academy of Engineering. This might be a good way to have a young girl or woman start thinking about engineering as a career choice.