Too much information : living the civil engineering life /
"If you use a MathCAD analogy to explain the birds and bees to your teenager ... If you are so steeped in structural parameters that you chortle over inappropriate variables ... If you watched The Sopranos just for the bridges pictured in the opening montage ... you are a candidate for Brian Br...
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| Language: | English |
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Reston :
American Society of Civil Engineers,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Roll the Maps; Googling Yourself; The Trouble with Invasive Species and Tribbles; My New Snow Blower; Disco Bridge; Friended by a Bridge; When I Was on Jeopardy; Too Much Information; Mathcad and S-E-X; Inappropriate Variables; How to Buy Presents, Engineer's Edition; The Amazing Bridge Race; Gas Mileage; Columbo as a Bridge Engineer; Rhode Island; The Engineer's Check; Pomelos; It's the End of the World as We Know It; No Borders; Zip It; A Bridge Offer You Can't Refuse; September 12; Cape in a Day; Cross-Country; Who's on First: Bridge Edition; Holy Spanning Function, Batman!; Engineering Valentine's Day; You Do It, and Then It's Done; School's Out; Raising the Bridge; The Short List; Return to Dulles; Riverside; The Red and the Blue; Aging and Infrastructure; Number One, Baby!; The Bridges of Dallas; A Human Bridge at the Super Bowl; You Need Brain Surgery; Proposing on a Bridge; Slope Stability of Pretzel Bags; Horizontal versus Vertical Construction; Giant Pumpkin; When You Don't Know Enough to Google