Hi Barbara
I thought you must have finally seen through all this pipe nonsense and gone back to opera singing.
Now all I need to do is to see if I can get NZ registration on an IEAust and then to IMechE. Starting to sound a bit convoluted.
Will have a google re Fred Dibnah.
Cheers
Steve
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:39 PM
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Steve,
The IMechE website gives details of how to join, application forms and list of fees:
http://www.imeche.org.uk/membership/forms.asp
Overseas applications are welcomed and there is a simplified route to membership for members of IEAust.
I really must get around to completing my application...
I don't recall that Phil Irving made it to the BBC, but Fred Dibnah was an inspiration. He was a steeplejack by trade, restored steam engines and made fabulous TV programmes about industry and engineering. Sadly, he died in 2004.
Barbara
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve McKenzie
> Sent: 20 February 2006 20:17
> To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] Stress Analysis Spreadsheet
> Software - Opinions
>
> Hi Geoff
>
> How would I go about joining IMechE and how much would it cost? When I
> was a kid, and obessed with motorcycles, I always figured one day I
> would be an MIMechE - just like Phil Irving. However now I am much
> more mature and obsessed with motorcycles and cars.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Geoff Stone DD&D Australia
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] Stress Analysis Spreadsheet
> Software - Opinions
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>
> STeve,
>
> You could be a member of IMechE and get the benefits of
> that learned society. I am sure with yoiur experience you
> could be a Fellow without too much trouble.
>
> The problem I see is that if engineers do not support such
> bodies they will crumble and disappear. Where will the next
> generation be without a vibrant body such as this in the
> future? The same goes for ASME, IE Aust, AWWA etc. They will
> fall victim of the economic rationalism that we all had to have.
>
> Geoff
>
> Steve McKenzie <Mechproj@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> I use Excel for nearly all my eng calcs. Used Lotus123
> before that and Visicalc on a Commodore (8"floppies - woohoo)
> which my eployer got so I could design FRP tanks using custom
> developed software, strangely enough. Purchased mathcad when
> it first came out but never found the time to become
> proficient. However electrical engineers seemed to love it.
> Lotus was the best piece of software I had ever seen, and
> Excel was a solid if not somewhat bullying improvement. If I
> was restricted to one application it would be Excel - no contest.
>
> Geoff, I was within a whisker of joining IEAust when I lived
> in Sydney - forms completed, referees signatures all done.
> Unfortunately circumstances dictated I return to NZ , and I
> found IPENZ or whatever they were called then did not have
> much to offer me.
>
> So its Excel 2 , Mathcad 1
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Geoff Stone DD&D Australia
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 6:59 PM
> To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Stress Analysis Spreadsheet
> Software - Opinions
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>
> Christopher,
>
> Its smart sods like you that make me look bad.
>
> Geoff
>
> Christopher Wright wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2006, at 8:54 PM, Geoff Stone DD&D Australia wrote:
>
> > I dont use Excel that often. I leave it to the Beanies to use. Have
> > seen too many mistakes made in Excel.
> I've seen too many mistakes make with every damn piece of
> software I ever used. You can do some pretty elegant things
> with it. Hell, I've done some pretty elegant things with it.
> All the optimization, linear algebra, special functions and
> matrix arithmetic I can make use of.
>
> I admit, I'll probably spring for Mathematica one of these
> days, the Mathematica Lite version, probably. I've been using
> Excel since 1987, when it was a Mac-only app, and I've found
> it's more versatile than any other calculation package I've ever used.
>
> Actually, the first spreadsheet I ever used was a Visi-calc
> workalike that came with a Franklin Ace computer I bought in
> 1985. I came within an inch of erasing the floppy disk it was
> on, when I discovered it would generate the lengthwise stress
> distribution in an edge-loaded cylindrical shell, just as
> fast as dammit. That's damn hard work even with an HP-67. The
> I worked out an automated version of a floatinghead analysis,
> that saved enough calculator tape, let alone time, to seem
> like a miracle. I've been using spreadsheets ever since.
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
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> .......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
> 1864)
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