> Just yesterday I made a trivial error crunching some numbers for when a construction site could turn off their dewatering.
And how did you catch this error?
And how did you catch this error?
Luckily, in this field, you can usually come up with a quick check that gets you within +/- 20% of the more sophisticated answer. These kind of sanity checks should be baked into the design process, but unfortunately not everyone seems to do them.
Could you please writeup an essay on this and publish it in an industry journal? This should be required, it should be a social and cultural norm across all engineering professions.
The story of saving the Citicorp Center to uncontrolled oscillations from an incoming storm is fascinating.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...