Structural Engineering Weblog Manifesto
This weblog was started because structural engineers were not taking advantage of the opportunity to communicate with each other. While there are any number of architectural blogs, even sites that rank them by popularity, there are no blogs concerning structural engineering. Therefore, this blog is committed to the structural engineering community and to everyone who is interested in structural engineering.
This website is inspired by the idea that people want to know how buildings are constructed and why they don't fall down in a strong wind or earthquake. My hope is that anyone can visit the site and connect to the topics in some way. However, I'll probably put a lot of industry-specific information here so let me know if any of it is unclear and I'll repost with clarifications if possible.
Everything you read in this blog will be filtered through my eyes. So, let's talk about me for a bit. I'm a structural engineer working in Indianapolis. I got my BS from CMU and my MS from TAMU, and I have a PE in Indiana. I work on many types of buildings and structures - industrial, commercial, and residential. I try to stay involved with the engineering community, so drop me a line if anything catches your eye and you want to share it. I'm also very interested in everything my architect friends have to say, so you will probably see a lot of that. I also enjoy discussing technology not related to construction.
Structural engineering is a subtle art and a great structural engineer is sometimes hard to recognize. Unfortunately, this has led many people, politicians, and architects to suspect that engineers are merely technicians, putting numbers into arcane mathematical formulas and then rounding up an order of magnitude just to be safe. Rest assured that there are great engineering firms out there, and great structural engineering is anything but a lost art.
This site doesn't believe that one-size fits all or that pounding a square peg through a round hole is an economical solution. This blog aims to separate great engineering from the mundane, and we welcome all comments and advice. If you know of any great projects or want to share a special topic with the rest of the world, feel free to leave a note for us and we'll check it out. Thanks and welcome to our place!
This website is inspired by the idea that people want to know how buildings are constructed and why they don't fall down in a strong wind or earthquake. My hope is that anyone can visit the site and connect to the topics in some way. However, I'll probably put a lot of industry-specific information here so let me know if any of it is unclear and I'll repost with clarifications if possible.
Everything you read in this blog will be filtered through my eyes. So, let's talk about me for a bit. I'm a structural engineer working in Indianapolis. I got my BS from CMU and my MS from TAMU, and I have a PE in Indiana. I work on many types of buildings and structures - industrial, commercial, and residential. I try to stay involved with the engineering community, so drop me a line if anything catches your eye and you want to share it. I'm also very interested in everything my architect friends have to say, so you will probably see a lot of that. I also enjoy discussing technology not related to construction.
Structural engineering is a subtle art and a great structural engineer is sometimes hard to recognize. Unfortunately, this has led many people, politicians, and architects to suspect that engineers are merely technicians, putting numbers into arcane mathematical formulas and then rounding up an order of magnitude just to be safe. Rest assured that there are great engineering firms out there, and great structural engineering is anything but a lost art.
This site doesn't believe that one-size fits all or that pounding a square peg through a round hole is an economical solution. This blog aims to separate great engineering from the mundane, and we welcome all comments and advice. If you know of any great projects or want to share a special topic with the rest of the world, feel free to leave a note for us and we'll check it out. Thanks and welcome to our place!
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