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In my others stories on problem solving and how, to create innovations I introduced many, skills to readers. Here are another set of skills-how to solve external and internal problems. That is, the 1st, I classify a problem by asking: what type of problem is it? There are 2 types of problems: external and internal.
External problems (outside problems) are beyond my control.
Internal problems (inside problems) are under my control.
To visualize how...
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That was beginning of the 1970s when the author started her engineering career. Surprisingly, she was hired, but she was the 1st woman structural engineer in a company. Men engineers revolted, they thought that now their engineering career is going down-a woman is going to design a bridge.
The first 3-4 days the author was reading volumes of federal and state codes, requirements, and regulations. Then, a chief engineer called her to his office and,...
3) It Is Easy to Despair, but the Best Traits of the Human Character Are Not to Give Up, but Instead
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One day I had a dream-to get my doctoral, or PhD degree. By that time I had a record of achievements and had no difficulties to be accepted to any university of my choice. The problem was, I was a woman, a structural engineer, and in 1980s not many women had PhDs.
With great anticipations I started my doctoral program. Only to learned that, before me there was another woman who was attempting to get her PhD. She had no chance, they failed her. The...
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What is engineering? Everything around us that are man-made and not by nature is- engineering. Engineers create national wealth and contribute to the development of civilization.
Their examples are starting from ancient engineering marvels: the pyramids of Egypt, the Acropolis and Parthenon in Greece, the Roman aqueducts and Coliseum, Mach Picchu, the Taj Mahal in India, the Great Wall of China, etc.
More recent great engineering projects are:...
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For the USA to recover from today's financial crisis it needs a noble President and a decent, selfless, and nationalistic government who knows how to solve national problems.
Today the American middle class, that was a foundation of the nation, has disappeared.
The USA government bailed out Wall Street with $787 billion and put those unsustainable debts on the shoulders of already impoverished Americans. There is high unemployment, foreclosures,...
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On Sunday, a country boy, in his earlier 30s, arrived into a new town and started having difficulties to solve his small problems in unfamiliar environment. His difficulties were, he does not have enough information in his brain storage to solve his big and small problem.
To solve every problem, whether big, small, personal, business, national, or local, requires this major skill. Common sense or logic could be retrieved from a person's brain folder,...
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