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5.Comments:
- I did not know that 25 years ago there was a slide rule; but now engineers just use computers.
- To me I think a computer is a more accurate and precise technology to use to design a structure.
- I did not know that back then most engineering student were male; now its both women and men.
- Civil engineers have turned to the computers for speed, accuracy and productivity; computers are being used for many different errands due to it's many functions.
- I did not know that the computer can be an almost indispensable partner in the design process.
- What are civil engineers?
- What is the Mead Prize?
- What brand of computers are used mostly by engineers?
- What is the Log Log Duplex Decitrig ?
- Alloy: a substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electro-deposition
- Technocratic: of, pertaining to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy
- Prototype:the original or model on which something is based or formed
- Simile: "Almost all males carried 'slip sticks' in a scabbard-like cases hanging from their belts." (page 189)
- Simile: "...older engineers wore small working models as tie clips that in a pinch could be used for calculations." (page 189)
- Described the importance of computers to engineers and how the engineers use the computers to design their structures.
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