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ASHRAE Recognizes Outstanding Achievements

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:37:21 +0000

Numerous awards and announcements are being made during ASHRAE's 2011 Winter Conference being held this week in Las Vegas.

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Smash Hit For Science!!!

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:08:21 +0000

After discovering that a large number of people involved in CERN projects are accomplished musicians, ATLAS has taken the amazing step of recording and releasing an album.

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Flood Map Experts Needed by FEMA

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:22:35 +0000

The National Institute of Building Sciences is seeking qualified scientific and technical professionals from the public, private, and academic sectors to serve on Scientific Resolution Panels (SRPs).

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Watch Your Step…

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:34:45 +0000

Staircases are just staircases, right? Well, not always. Sometimes, a clever designer taps the talents of a diligent engineer, and the results can be pretty impressive.

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ASHRAE Publishes Update to Principles of HVAC

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:59:56 +0000

The new resource contains the most current ASHRAE procedures and definitive, yet easy to understand, treatment of building HVAC systems, from basic principles through design and operation.

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Engineering Ingenuity

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:20:49 +0000

It's the end of Summer '09, and people are starting to get back to reality. Kids are going back to school, manufacturing is gearing up for a tenuous economic recovery, and engineers are doing what they do best--"MacGyver"-ing whatever they can to keep things chugging along.

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WEIRD WEDNESDAY: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Heidi Schwartz — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:25:54 +0000

In the early hours of Saturday, June 27, 2009, something seriously wrong happened to a nearly completed 13 story block of residential flats in the suburbs of Shanghai. No, it wasn't destroyed by Transformers.

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Murphy’s Lesser Known Laws

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:41:53 +0000

Typically, facility managers appreciate the classic Murphy's Laws (which go back as far as 1841, according to Wikipedia, but were formalized in 1877 at a meeting of an engineering society). This week, we have Peter SJF Bance to thank (again) for these lesser known laws from Murphy.

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Niels B. Christiansen Becomes President and Chief Executive Officer At Danfoss

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:56:33 +0000

Jorgen M. Clausen retires and will become chairman.

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WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Inside The Particle Accelerator

Heidi Schwartz — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:43:06 +0000

Early this morning, science was made in a remote part of Europe. Some of you may have seen the video last Friday, and others may have heard about it on the news, but today was the day when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) did its thing...with a bang.

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FRIDAY FUNNY: Yo! Engineering Gets Even Cooler

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:35:22 +0000

Wanna be cool? Impress your fellow engineers with this hit YouTube rap all about particle physics. Don't forget to share it with your friends!

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