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From: kwg@creare.com (Kent Goeking)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem,sci.materials
Subject: Re: Hazardous Waste Newsgroup?
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:01:53 GMT
Reply-To: kwg@spock.creare.com (Kent Goeking)
Organization: Creare Inc., Hanover, NH

In article <1992Dec21.110124.543@doc.bmd.trw.com> dsanders@doc.bmd.trw.com writes:
>Hello readers,
>
>I am trying to locate a newsgroup or forum for the discussion of topics
>related to hazardous and toxic waste handling, storage, and disposal.
>
>Any assistance would be appreciated.--
> 
>*******************************************************************************
>Dale Sanders                                  TRW/Space and Technology Group
>Phone: 801-625-8343                           1104 Country Hills Drive
>Dale_Sanders@oz.bmd.trw.com                   Ogden, UT 84403
>*******************************************************************************

Sounds like an excellent idea for a new newsgroup!  I find myself dealing
with these issues more and more and would love a resource in which I could
learn and exchange experience with.  I suggest that if there is sufficient
interest we could put out a RFD.  I'm not sure where such a group would
fit though or what it should be called.  Perhaps it could be put as a
subgroup to sci.materials, for example sci.materials.haz-waste?

I've cross posted this to sci.materials to see if there is any interest.

Kent Goeking
Creare Inc.
kwg@spock.creare.com
From: dsanders@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
Subject: Hazardous Waste Newsgroup?
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:01:24 MST

Hello readers,

I am trying to locate a newsgroup or forum for the discussion of topics
related to hazardous and toxic waste handling, storage, and disposal.

Any assistance would be appreciated.--
 
*******************************************************************************
Dale Sanders                                  TRW/Space and Technology Group
Phone: 801-625-8343                           1104 Country Hills Drive
Dale_Sanders@oz.bmd.trw.com                   Ogden, UT 84403
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Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
From: fjchang@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Chang Fuh-Jyi)
Subject: looking for email address of Chem Dept
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:16:16 GMT

Hi,
     I am eager to know email addresses of the Chemistry Department
of any university at US. In fact, I am helping my friend who is a
senior and majors in chemistry.  She wants to study in US after she
graduates from the university next year.  Thus, what I am looking for 
is email address of anyone who can answer me some question about his/her
department and, perhaps and hopefully, send me the application material.

     Also, I want to know how much does it cost a graduate student to
study in US for two years. If you are a graduate student, could you 
tell me how much you spend per year, which city you live in (living 
in your campus dorm., or in an apartment), how life and climate are 
there?  Any information or whatever suggested is greatly appreciated.

     Thanks for your help.

                    Chang Fuh-Jyi
                    National Chiao-Tung University

                    email address : fjchang@oodelta.csie.nctu.edu.tw
                                    7817069@csie.nctu.edu.tw
                                    u7817069@ccsun11.cc.ncut.edu.tw
From: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
Subject: Re: Demand of Chem Engineers?
Date: 2 Jan 93 07:03:50
Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: rarya@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:46:40 GMT


>>>>> "Ranju" == Ranju Arya <rarya@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:

  Ranju> 	Hi, I was talking to a friend of mine who made mention of how low the
  Ranju> demand for Chemical Engineers is.  Is this true?  I had heard that Chem Eng's
  Ranju> made alot of money (higher than most other engineering fields) and were very
  Ranju> much in demand.  If someone out there could assist me in the above questions,
  Ranju> please email me personally, or post it.  Thanks!

  I think the thing that made me choose Chemical Engineering was its
  versatility.  Getting a BS in ChE does not limit you in any way.  It is an
  engineering field that keeps your options open.  Anyone out there interested
  in finding out some more about ChE should get hold of a copy of:

    Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, R.M. Felder and R.W.
    Rousseau, 2nd ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986
    (or 1st Edition, 1978).

  And read the first chapter entitled "What Chemical Engineers Sometimes Do
  For A Living."  It gives a very broad perspective of Chemical Engineering.
  Felder and Rousseau is THE introductory level Chemical Engineering text
  book.

                            Larry
                            dodd@roebling.poly.edu [128.238.5.31]

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From: xslkkk@oryx.com (kenneth k konvicka)
Subject: Re: Hazardous Waste Newsgroup?
Organization: Oryx Energy, Dallas, Texas.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:40:34 GMT

Let's do it.

My preference starting out - sci.hazwaste

Could then branch off to .soil .water .air  &  .hvymtl .oil .rad etc.

Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
From: yuta@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Lao Ya)
Subject: Gas Processors Association
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 01:01:20 GMT

Hi, Does anybody know the address (snail or E- mail) for the Gas
Processors Association? I heard that it is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
but could not find the exact address. Thanks.

Lao Ya
Rochester, NY
From: rrooks@ecs.umass.edu (Raymond Rooks)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
Subject: Re: Demand of Chem Engineers?
Date: 25 Dec 92 19:01:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.004640.11644@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, rarya@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ranju Arya) writes:
> 	Hi, I was talking to a friend of mine who made mention of how low the
> demand for Chemical Engineers is.  Is this true?  I had heard that Chem Eng's
> made alot of money (higher than most other engineering fields) and were very
> much in demand.  If someone out there could assist me in the above questions,
> please email me personally, or post it.  Thanks!
> 


  The starting salries for chemical engineers are higher than for many other
of the engineering majors.  I don't think that money should be your primary
consideration for what field you pick.  You should make sure that you will
enjoy what you are doing or you will make a pretty poor engineer.

  As of now there is a high demand but I am not what what it will be like in
five years.

Ray
Xref: sparky sci.engr:2434 sci.electronics:21789
From: xile@hardy.u.washington.edu (Roberto Camama)
Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.electronics
Subject: Help w/searching for EE-related summer jobs/internships
Date: 31 Dec 1992 10:49:13 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: xile@u.washington.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

	I don't know if this is the appropriate newsgroup for this sort of 
question, but here goes:

	Does anyone know of summer internships appropriate for an electrical
	engineering undergraduate, especially in the western Washington
	region?  Also, does anyone know of a listing of internships from
	firms/government organizations for engineering undergrads?

Thanx for your time
R. Camama
Newsgroups: sci.engr
From: kk881595@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (kevin knappmiller)
Subject: Re: GUI Data Acquisition Software
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:39:41 GMT
Reply-To: kk881595@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College
Keywords: Reviews? LabView LabTech

In article  victoro@crash.cts.com (Victor O'Rear) writes:
|> I realise that I'm dealing with the most educated
|> scientific researchers, and you probably
|> write your own data acquisition software in APL,
|> but maybe you seen others work with the new
|> Graphic User Interfaced programs like LabTech
|> Notebook or National's LabView or LabWindows.
|> 
|> How useful are these programs and what problems
|> have you seen before I but something or
|> suggest something to others..
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.  Please respond to the net
|> so I can get some cross-discussion.

I have used ViewDAC from Keithly ASYST.  It is very
useful but very expensive.  It is their high-end
package.  If you have alot of money, your time
is expensive, you have to write multiple applications,
and having a pretty end product is important 
then buying any of the top products
from any of the manufacturers is probably money
well spent.

On the other hand, if any of the above 4 criteria
don't apply then you have to start making some
rather difficult decisions based upon your own
priorities and applications.  I have done many of the
intermediate things from programming the acquisition
software in C and BASIC, to using less expensive less
powerful DAC software.

I think that any of these solutions would still be
the "optimum" solution given the appropriate selection
criteria.  It is for this reason that you really need
to ask an unbiased expert(s) for a recommendation
based on your specific application, if you want to
even come close to this "optimum".  

Of course if ~$5000 is pocket change to you, just
go out and buy the top of the line product from the
manufacturer you are most comfortable with, and you
will probably be happier than you would be 
writing your own code. :)

Kevin Knappmiller
Solar Lab
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO  80523
(303)491-8215
kk881595@longs.lance.colostate.edu
From: sdf@kepler.unh.edu (Scott D Foster)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:42:00 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu


Not enough!  In my M.E. senior class here at UNH there are only two

women engineers.  When we started, there were around 8 but they all

dropped out.  Why is it that there are so few.  I guess that if there were

more then we would never get anything done (typical male response).

Oh well.  

Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: af235@yfn.ysu.edu (Bing Li)
Subject: test
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:31:33 GMT


>Happy New Year.
-- 
INTERNET:    af235@yfn.ysu.edu
BITNET:      af235%yfn.ysu.edu@ysub.bitnet

BING LI
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: sprent@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Tony Sprent)
Subject: Re: Looking for Huge Rubber Bands
Organization: University of Tasmania
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:41:57 GMT

In article <142000001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>,... writes:
> 
> Does anyone know where I could purchase rubber belts with the following
> characteristics:
> 
>      - 1.5 inches wide, rubber thickness about 0.1 inches
> 
>      - The diameter of the belt should be about 150 mm.
> 
>      - The material should be ozone resistant.
> 
>      - Surgical rubber would be desireable.

I used to use that sort of thing when I was a kid for making shanghis or gings
(Ithink you call them sling shots). You know a Y shaped stick with rubbers oops
sorry elastics connected to a bit of leather in the middle. I cut them out 
of old car tyre innertubes!



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Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: zhang@climat.geology.yale.edu
Subject: The Puzzling Frost-Free Refrigerator.
Organization: Yale University GFD Computing
Date: 22 Dec 92 05:12:03 EDT

Here is a question which has long puzzled me:

	How does the freezer in a frost-free refrigerator work? 

	The food in the freezer is rock-hard due to low temperature, but the
 frost does not form at all. Isn't is a miracle? Anyone out there knows 
the answer please e-mail me. Thanks a lot.

						Taiping Zhang
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: alongley@cape.UWaterloo.ca (Allan Longley)
Subject: Re: Domestic hot water heaters - oil vs. electric
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:06:44 GMT

In article (Doug Bliss) writes:
>I have heard that oil-fired domestic hot water heaters are very ineffecient (
>20-30% efficiency) compared to electric hot water heaters.  

But remember that electricty is often generated from oil/natural gas/coal
at less than 40% effeciency.  If you want to compare efficiency you must
take this fuel-power conversion efficiency into account.

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e-mail: alongley@cape.uwaterloo.ca
voice: (519) 885-1211
home: (519) 746-1498
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Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: acampane@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Angelo Campanella)
Subject: Re: Domestic hot water heaters - oil vs. electric
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:31:09 GMT




Granted, 100%, or nearly so, of the heat energy of electric heaters ends up in
the water, but when you think of your pocketbook, the conclusion differs.

Years ago, when I first inhabited my own apartment with the attendant utility
bills, I went through a comparitive evaluation.

Dollar wise, coal heat is cheapest, followed by gas, then oil, and electricity
is by far the most costly.  As far as domestic resources are concerned, it is
also the most invoved, requiring not only the energy material, but also 
boilers, turbines, generators, transmission lines, transformers, meters and 
house wiring.

I have a gas hot-water heater.  About 10 years ago, I replaced our electric
dryer with a gas-fired dryer.  Operating cost is about half that of electric.

Ang.
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: acampane@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Angelo Campanella)
Subject: Re: The Puzzling Frost-Free Refrigerator.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:38:27 GMT

No miracle, just moderate-tech.

The frost still forms at the 'normal' rate, but once a day, the freezer shuts
down, electric heating strips (located at strategic positions throughout the
freezer perimeter and cooling coils) are turned on for a predetermined time.
The frost melts to water which drains out the bottom of the whole mess.

The timer for this process then returns the compressor cotrols to 'normal'.

The older units had a pan underneath the fridge which had to be emptied of
this condensed water from time to time.  More modern ones have this pan
strategically located underneath to enjoy the flow of warm condenser air (fan
driven) to evaporate it back into your pad.  This pan sometimes gets cruddy and
should be washed clean.  If you poke around enough under your fridge, or better
yet read the manual (!!!), you will be enlightened accordingly.

Ang.
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
Subject: What % of engineers are women?
Date: 23 Dec 92 13:49:50 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


Can anyone point me in the direction of statistics
showing what percentage of engineers (mechanical) in the
U.S. are women?

Thanks.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: jbibb@eng.auburn.edu (John S. Bibb)
Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
Reply-To: jbibb@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:01:35 GMT


It is interesting to point out that while there are so few women in the engineering
field, the same can not be said for engineering honor societies.  I am a chapter
advisor for Tau Beta Pi here at Auburn, and have gone to the last 3 conventions.
I noticed that while the ratio of women to men was low as a general rule through out
the college, the honor societies had a much higher ratio.  Roughly speaking, Alabama
Alpha of Tau Beta Pi is about 35-40% women as opposed to under 15% college wide.
The same trend can be seen at the national conventions.  Roughly 45-50% of the 
delagates were women, as are a large number of district directors and national 
officers.

My point:  It seems as though bringing women into engineering has only attracted those
with a genuine desire to become engineers, not just people who chose engineering 
because "My father is a mechanical engineer, his father was a mechanical engineer..."
Although women are a minority in number in the engineering field, they are a valued
minority to the profession.

J. Bibb
Integrity and Excellence in Engineering.
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: schenn@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Lisa Henn)
Subject: Re: us government
Summary: citizenship and jobs
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: jobs
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  1 Jan 1993 21:32 EDT  

In article <1992Dec31.162054.23428@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, dsza@elm.lle.rochester.edu (Tony De Souza) writes...
>Everytime I see jobs advertised by the government it specifically 

>states US citizenship required.  Anyone know how cast in stone 
>this is?  

It's cast in stone.  If you are serious about being a civil servant, become a
U.S. citizen.  There are some projects for which foreign national employees
of contractors are not permitted to sit in federally owned _buildings_ on
unrelated tasks, let alone be on the projects.  I am unfamiliar with the 
particulars of the laws regarding the visas, though, so I do not recognize
your status (ie, whether you have an academic/study visa or one of the work-
type visas).  

There is undoubtedly an office within the federal agency in question that
would be able to provide more specific information and forms.

Good luck,
L
Lisa Henn
Analex Corporation
schenn@e4310h01.lerc.nasa.gov
-----------------------------
Disclaimer:  I speak for me, not in an official capacity for NASA, etc.

Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: schenn@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Lisa Henn)
Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:35 EDT  

In article <1hqd6oINN8od@mozz.unh.edu>, sdf@kepler.unh.edu (Scott D Foster) writes...

> I guess that if there were 
>more then we would never get anything done (typical male response).

Yup!

I find that whenever I ask a female engineer this question, she says, "Oh,
there were about x% in my graduating class".  But if I ask a male engineer,
he knows the exact percentage to three significant figures or the exact
ratio (e.g. 11 of 53 in the class, or 20.6%)

A (male) classmate asked me one time if I thought male students or male 
professors were more receptive (as groups) to women engineers.  I told him
that I thought the male students were for two reasons:  1)  A significant
percentage of the (tenured) male professors were old enough to have gone to
school before _any_ women went to engineering school (my undergrad alma
mater graduated its first female (chemical) engineer in 1972) and so such
a concept was still a little bit unusual for them.  2)  The male students
tended to be of the demeanor of "WOMEN!!  We need WOMEN!! In the CLASSES!
Right now!!", so they were always happy to have women engineers among them.

>Oh well.  

Indeed.

Incidently, out of my undergrad department (Mechanical) there were about 12%
women graduating in my year, 1989.  School of Engineering-wide, it was about
15% that year.  Computer Science and Chemical Engineering were above this
figure, with Mechanical and Electrical being below (from what I remember;
a male alumnus would probably know better!).


L
Lisa Henn
Analex Corporation
schenn@e4310h01.lerc.nasa.gov
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Disclaimer:  These are my opinions.  There are many others like them, but
	     these are mine. 
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
From: Johan.Winberg@vok.lth.se (Johan Winberg)
Subject: re: Domestic hot water heaters - oil vs. electric
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Dept of Heat and Power Eng.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:05:59 GMT

In article <dbliss.5@fox.nstn.ns.ca> dbliss@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Doug Bliss) writes:
>I have heard that oil-fired domestic hot water heaters are very ineffecient (
>20-30% efficiency) compared to electric hot water heaters.  Does anyone have 
>any information on efficiencies and heat losses expected from these types of 
>hot water heaters?

I think your figures are too low! Of course they depend on the system
and how you define efficiency...

It is true that oil (and other) fired heaters are less efficient than
electric heaters, when some kind of total efficiency is defined.
This efficiency loss is caused by the flue losses, heat losses from 
the burner itself and stand-still heat losses, i.e. losses which aren't
there on electric water heaters. The heat losses from the storage tank
should be about the same for the different types (50-400 W for a typical
one-family house water heater, i.e. with a volume of 100-300 l). In
Sweden, fired systems are most often built together with the radiator
circuit and I think some figures for total year efficiency is 80-85% 
for a non-condensing furnace, >100% for a condensing furnace and 99% 
for an electric heater.
_________________________________________________________________
Johan Winberg              	Dept. of Heat & Power Engineering
johan.winberg@vok.lth.se       	Lund Institute of Technology
vox: +46-(0)46 104302          	P.O. Box 118
fax: +46-(0)46 104717          	S-221 00 LUND, Sweden