Feminist Professor Thinks "Rigor" is Evil

[bd139]

Perhaps if you let the turds float to the top they're easier to scoop off 

[EEVblog]

Mention of Engineering and the University of Melbourne at about 3 minutes in:

[james_s]

If the mind were a blind slate, I may well not have gotten into engineering in the first place. I was born obsessed with it, I was taking things apart by the time I was 2 years old, much to the dismay of my parents. Nobody encouraged me to pursue it, I've had that natural curiosity about how things work my whole life.

[DimitriP]

I was born obsessed with it, I was taking things apart by the time I was 2 years old, much to the dismay of my parents.

Warning: knock-knock joke

-Knock knock
-"Who is there?"
-"Orange"
-"Orange who?"
-"Orange you glad you weren't raised by a village?"

[jonovid]

in the light of the gender wars of today. how political correctness has made for so much on going confusion.
in an otherwise non or gender neutral aspects of science.  will the names attributed to plugs and sockets get added to the subject.

[Ampera]

in the light of the gender wars of today. how political correctness has made for so much on going confusion.
in an otherwise non or gender neutral aspects of science.  will the names attributed to plugs and sockets get added to the subject.

Not sure exactly what you're getting at.

Gendering plugs isn't intended to be offensive or discriminatory to anybody. The majority of people are straight, and straight intercourse has a male plug and female receptacle. It's the core and basis of reproduction, and almost everybody (unless you count artificial insemination) is the result of it. If you need to think, what end of a connector this is, female and male are normal terms the apply to a majority of people, and thus are easy to remember and never forget. You don't forget that water is wet, and you don't forget that male is stick and female is hole.

[Beamin]

Mention of Engineering and the University of Melbourne at about 3 minutes in:

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That's not sexist.    That makes things so awkward for people like me who identify as female but are not. Can I take the class because I look female? Do I need to show my birth certificate?

If all the EE classes ae full but the female only class has 5 empty seats do those male students lose their spot?

What's the difference are the tests less hard or do they make analogies like resistor color codes are like a pallet of eye shadow? Do they have longer bathroom breaks because sitting down takes more time?

[TerraHertz]

Looks like 'rigor' has gone out the window in civil engineering too. Take a look at the design of this truss bridge. See why it failed at the left hand end in the photo?

The bridge itself plus gravity displayed natural rigor in crushing cars below.

[bd139]

Ouch. Not a civil engineer or physicist but it looks like the brace across on the left is going to be under a lot more stress than the other ones due to the length and angle and that intermediate one underneath it.

[wraper]

Take a look at the design of this truss bridge. See why it failed at the left hand end in the photo?

Ouch. Not a civil engineer or physicist but it looks like the brace across on the left is going to be under a lot more stress than the other ones due to the length and angle and that intermediate one underneath it.

Right side collapsed, not left. Also if you look on the left side, you should notice that brace is much thicker.

[retrolefty]

Looks like 'rigor' has gone out the window in civil engineering too. Take a look at the design of this truss bridge. See why it failed at the left hand end in the photo?

The bridge itself plus gravity displayed natural rigor in crushing cars below.

 The bridge was not compete yet. I heard they were performing a 'stress test' of some kind. Also from conception picture I think they were yet to add a central vertical support and cable supports like in suspension bridges. I suspect this was a construction sequencing assembly error, but I'm sure all the investigations will explain what and why this happened. Why is Florida such a "shit magnet"? Probably because it's so flat.

[Cerebus]

Ouch. Not a civil engineer or physicist but it looks like the brace across on the left is going to be under a lot more stress than the other ones due to the length and angle and that intermediate one underneath it.

There's an old saying in aircraft architecture that "if it looks right it probably is right" with the obvious corollary. Like you, I'm not a structural engineer but that bridge "looks wrong".

[wraper]

There's an old saying in aircraft architecture that "if it looks right it probably is right" with the obvious corollary. Like you, I'm not a structural engineer but that bridge "looks wrong".

And what is the merit of looking right? By such logic, this 85 meter tall monument shall not exist.

[Cerebus]

The phrase is, quite obviously, talking about engineering and hence functional characteristics, not aesthetic ones, but I've never seen a stick that you can't deliberately take the wrong end of.

[Richard Crowley]

...that bridge "looks wrong".

Perhaps because it is only PART of a bridge.  The diagonal struts are clearly aligned to match the (missing) cable supports from the (missing) central pillar.  And add that to the (missing) temporary "false-work" to hold up the piece of a bridge and this seems inevitable.  AvE put up an interesting vijeo...

https://youtu.be/ioC61QW7SHQ

[Towger]

If this was a building site H&S would not allow workers under it until it was finished...

[Gregg]

RE: Bridge collapse
Leonor Flores is an executive for MCM, the company that built the collapsed bridge
From this website: https://news.fiu.edu/2018/03/community-gathers-to-watch-950-ton-bridge-move-across-southwest-8th-street/120395

Twelve-year-old Michelle Flores shared a special moment with her family at FIU this past Saturday: She and her sister Gabriela joined their parents, FIU alumni Leonor and Henry Flores MIS ’01, to watch a 950-ton section of a pedestrian bridge swing into its permanent position across Southwest 8th Street.

Leonor Flores ’98 is a project executive and one of 63 FIU alumni who work for MCM, the construction firm building the FIU-Sweetwater UniversityCity Bridge, which will further connect FIU and its northerly neighbor, the City of Sweetwater. She was excited to share her work with her family, especially Michelle, who is interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) in school.

Michelle said she might want to follow in her parents’ footsteps and go to FIU when the time comes, and that it was fascinating to see her mom’s work in action. “I’m interested in the architecture and the design of the bridge, and the math portion of it,” she said.

Said Leonor: “It’s very important for me as a woman and an engineer to be able to promote that to my daughter, because I think women have a different perspective. We’re able to put in an artistic touch and we’re able to build, too.”

The pedestrian bridge, which crosses Southwest 8th Street at the 109th Avenue intersection, will provide a safer crossing of the eight-lane thoroughfare for the 4,200 FIU students living in Sweetwater. Between its walkways and plazas, it will also provide 9,900 square feet of gathering and event space.

[lordvader88]

I thought it was RIGOL, not rigor

[Circlotron]

And what is the merit of looking right? By such logic, this 85 meter tall monument shall not exist.

That's because she is looking left.

[Beamin]

Ouch. Not a civil engineer or physicist but it looks like the brace across on the left is going to be under a lot more stress than the other ones due to the length and angle and that intermediate one underneath it.

There's an old saying in aircraft architecture that "if it looks right it probably is right" with the obvious corollary. Like you, I'm not a structural engineer but that bridge "looks wrong".

The armchair physicist speculation by AVE on youtube was that they tried to move a support while people were on the bridge.

[bd139]

Armchair physicist here says they should have built a tunnel

[coppice]

Armchair physicist here says they should have built a tunnel

That's just ducking the issue. 

[Beamin]

Armchair physicist here says they should have built a tunnel

That's just ducking the issue. 

Or gave the people jet packs to cross. This statement is also supported by the CEO of ubeam because they told her it can't be done just because she was a woman. Like the wright brothers who were also woma... er.. ah...? Why does science hate women?  Why does homer simpson face palm? It seems like he would get the face palm not give it.

[Edison]

Well, I read it as "Rigol" at first, ....

me too .......

[jmelson]

Armchair physicist here says they should have built a tunnel

Tunnels don't work so well in Florida - the water table is about 3' below the surface in a lot of places.  Sometimes, even higher.

Jon