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Ron George: Thoughts from "Meet D3" Opening Night for Dubai Design District
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Saturday, April 4, 2015. Thoughts from "Meet D3" Opening Night for Dubai Design District. The noble idea behind Dubai's latest project, the Dubai Design District. Is perhaps to change all that by providing a purpose built community dedicated to local design talent offering retail, office and residential spaces to those who are a little more art centric than the rest of the crowd. My wife and I happened to visit the opening day, or opening night rather, rightly termed Meet D3. A quick visit to a music ten...
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Ron George: The Decline of Naturally Aspirated
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Friday, June 12, 2015. The Decline of Naturally Aspirated. For several years now, the writing has been getting clearer on the wall. NA engines are becoming niche, and there's little evidence that automakers are running off to design new NA engines from scratch apart from a few modifications year on year. A casual look at this year's 2015 Ward's 10 Best engines. An article in June's Engine Technology International. There's really no competition, or is there? What can possibly compete? PHEVs offer promise,...
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Ron George: Engineering Paper Review
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Note : These are reviews of papers already in the public domain. The rest of the paper is an interesting history of the advancements made in aerodynamic components, seal systems and analytic methods. Overall, I liked the paper's conclusions. As the authors so rightly claim, the evolution in manufacturing is what complemented superior analytical techniques towards making complex gas path geometries and high efficiency compressors possible. With this background, Anderson describes his experience designing ...
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Ron George: Human Power at the Tour de France
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. Human Power at the Tour de France. If you have large pockets, have your own bike fitted with a cycling power meter and inspect the wattage as you pedal. If you're savvier with numbers, fire up an MS Excel and program a little spreadsheet based on the math described in this paper by Martin et al titled "A Mathematical Model for Road Cycling Power". The Tour is especially interesting because of these dramatic incidences, where a community of rabid fans view extraordinary cycling pe...
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Ron George: Earthquakes Highlight Need To Review Masonry Practices In Developing Countries
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. Earthquakes Highlight Need To Review Masonry Practices In Developing Countries. Dharahara or Bhimsen Tower, a famous 62m high historical structure in Kathmandu, has been toppled today by a 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake. For an average fee of a dollar, visitors could climb its spiral staircase and view the skies over Kathmandu. Given it's popularity, t. Ourists from several countries might have been there today. A. Ny number of guesses can be taken at the casualties from the disaster.
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Ron George: U.A.E Fuel Deregulation and Some Implications
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. UAE Fuel Deregulation and Some Implications. July 28 Update : U.A.E Fuel prices committee has released. Revised fuel prices for August 2015. In what's most likely a watershed moment in the U.A.E economy, from August 2015 petrol prices will no longer stay regulated. Doesn't appear to support that vision. To cope with the ever-rising traffic volume and road congestion in Dubai, the Salik toll collection system was rolled out in 2007. In October 2013, car-pooling was legalized.
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Ron George: Programming Yourself in an Engineering Career
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Programming Yourself in an Engineering Career. Below are a few topics I feel needs addressed, some areas where you can go wrong very easily in the engineering workplace. Unfortunately for me, it has come from some of my worst observations working at different companies. Fortunately for you, you can take home some lessons or get you at-least thinking about issues discussed below. 1 Female engineers :. Chances are, this female engineer is going to like working there and will most ...
