Engineering Companies

I've been with a few. And I've seen the two sides of the coin. I hope we won't be doing it wrong in the 21st century. After all, we are already past the industrial age. Something to remember for engineering consulting firms, old and new. Watch this talk by Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation, a video on TED.com:

"A journey around the edge of wind engineering"

This is a report on ‘A journey around the edge of wind engineering,’ an Intensive Course lecture by Prof. Chris Baker, that I submitted as part of the requirements in my PhD study.

Thermal Comfort

One important important environmental criterion to be satisfied is thermal comfort.  Often this would mean indoors, but it could also mean outdoors.  After all, what happens outdoors sort of dictates what happens indoors.

Reply to a reader question on engineering design practices in the Philippines

The comment went as follows:

Hi, I am a "young" engineer practicing structural engineering.

Reply to a reader question on IBC vs ACI minimum reinforcements + New URL / Web Address

This RONJIE.COM Civil Engineering website has a new URL (or web address): engg.ronjie.com.

A reader read through my article about the UBC and IBC seismic provisions, and posted a question-comment not related to seismic provisions though, and this time talking about ACI and IBC minimum reinforcement provisions for concrete.  My reply and the original comment is shown below.

What is Engineering? + New Engg.RONJIE.COM Look

If this isn't your first time here (http://ronjie-engg.blogspot.com/), you would have noticed the new look of this website that is all about engineering, from the RONJIE.COM perspective.  What is Engineering?

Change in Website

With the creation of Wind.PH, there needed to be a dividing line between what is posted here (RONJIE.COM/engineering) and on Wind.PH.  This website will soon host only my online essays and details of my publications, as well as non-wind-engineering-related events and other information, applicable to the Philippines and to other parts of the world.  Wind.PH will document the existence of any available wind-engineering-related publications and events, relevant to Filipinos or to the Philippine setting only, which may include one or more of posts on this website (RONJIE.COM/engineering).

New website on wind engineering in the Philippines launched

Wind.PH was created on 16 May 2010 and was spurred by the same idea behind the ASEANwind network. It is a site that is aimed at establishing a focal point for wind engineering related literature for Filipinos or by Filipinos, wind engineering networking in the Philippines and effectively establish an "engineering virtual organization," and encouraging research and education on wind engineering in the Philippines. Wind.PH is currently being maintained by RONJIE.COM/engineering.

Visit the website at http://windph.blogspot.com.

Envi discussions

This morning's class was just dedicated to discussion about 3 things:

1. "Energy saving for household appliance"
2. Emission trading
3. Environmental tax for fossil fuels

Wind-Related Disaster Risk Reduction for Haiti

We all know about the thousands of deaths and damages recently in Haiti due to a very strong earthquake.  Efforts in rebuilding are now on-going, and of course, people are now trying to build homes that are more earthquake-resistant.  But earthquakes are not all that Haiti needs to prepare for.  Haiti is also in a hurricane-prone area, being just next to the Atlantic Ocean.

PhD in Wind Engineering

Last April 16, 2010 I came back to Tokyo Polytechnic University in Atsugi, Japan, but this time as a PhD candidate particularly in the field of (structural) wind engineering.  I hope to share with you all some of the things I learned and some of my work.  Actually my post on May 3, 2010 is an example of school work (a class report specifically) that I prepared while here.