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[Captain18]

 

[Gear101]

 

[Rusty in Montana]

^^^^^^^ Now that's FUNNY !!!!! In a scary sort of way !

 

[Captain18]

 

[Thunder Thighs]

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Rare studio apartment species

 

[Thunder Thighs]

 

[Patrick Johnson]

 

[Patrick Johnson]

 

[Non Smoker]

 

[Non Smoker]

 

[Korsakoff]

 

[DaveM]

 

[Poolhall60561]

 

[Gear101]

 

[RickLafayette]

 

[RickLafayette]

 

[bbb]

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[RickLafayette]

 

[Dead Money]

 

[Jaden]

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So I was just talking to a 5th year Civil engineering student who upon graduation has a job with a state transportation agency as a Grade Specialist. I wonder how Grade is determined so I figured I will finally find out.

I asked how Grade is determined and I get a vague description " its a measure of
rise and or fall". I reply I know what it is but how is it determined? " Well this big machine looks at the ground and it does a bunch of measurements".

Ok but what is the formula to determine the Grade if you don't have the machine? You take a "bunch" of measurements and enter them into a special computer and it will tell you.

No knowledge what so ever of how to determine Grade so solely reliant on the machines. God help us.

In mud engineering we had software that did all of the calculations for us; however, in mud school, we still had to do all of the calculations on paper and in the field if we were in the dog house, the company man would often ask us to calculate the hole volume on the fly with just a calculator and our minds. We had to have the formulas and a lot of the numbers for volume for many of the pipe sizes memorized.

Jaden