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Martin Fandrich Snippet A
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Abstract: Mechanical engineer Dr. Martin Fandrich describes one of his design-build projects – a boat lift. The lift reaches under the water surface to pick up the boat and rotates it to the left or right for a forklift to take it to dry storage. The owner of a boat that was at the limit of the lift's capacity offered his vessel for a load test. Dr. Fandrich recalls "I am not a mariner – but it was a very… more
David S. Weaver Snippet A
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Abstract: Dr. David Weaver describes his 16 years of retirement as "travelling around the world solving big problems". Always an avid modeler, one of his first initiatives as a new professor at McMaster University was to build a model of Cape Breton Island control structures for the hydro-electric power stations. He used the model to identify and resolve potential problems converting Megawatts of water… more
Madiha Kotb Snippet A
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Abstract: Mechanical engineer Madiha Kotb describes her calling as "engineers do fix things". Life-saving equipment found in hospitals is designed and maintained by engineers. Society takes engineering achievements for granted, even though they are essential and everywhere in every-day life: from plumbing fixtures to electricity to the buildings that we live in. "Unfortunately", she says, "engineers did… more
Madiha Kotb Snippet B
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Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb, ingénieur mécanique, décrit comment le projet “Engineering for Change,” a vue le jour lors d’un de ses mandats sur le comité de gouvernance de la American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Cette plate-forme web, crée par des ingénieurs afin d’aider le public en matière d’ingénierie, permettait au public de discuter avec des ingénieurs afin de…
moreMadiha Kotb Snippet C
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Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb, ingénieur mécanique, explique l’importance de la « conquête de l’espace » dans sa vie, autant au niveau professionnel que personnel. Elle décrit sa rencontre avec l’astronaute Neil Armstrong ainsi qu’avec Gene Krantz, ingénieur aéronautique Américan, directeur de vol et directeur de la NASA connu aussi pour avoir dit « l’échec n’est pas…
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