lvron@earth.lerc.nasa.gov (Ronald E. Graham) (01/12/91)
There is a newsgroup for engineers: sci.engr. If you have been considering
a technical posting that does not belong in your newsgroup, or if a problem
under discussion is in need of cross-disciplinary expertise, it is possible
that folks in sci.engr would be interested. Here's the group charter:
(1) To examine engineering problems in academia and industry, and the
approaches taken in solving them;
(2) To discuss tools used by the engineer (e.g. software, mechanisms,
algorithms, strategies, etc.);
(3) To exchange information relevant to the accomplishment of engineering
tasks.
And here are a couple of potential side benefits:
(1) A place to establish traffic, leading, if possible, to an engineering
hierarchy someday (sci.engr.chem has already been spawned);
(2) A clearing-house of disciplinary experience that can be applied in
other sci groups.
Ronald E. Graham (RG)
NASA Lewis Research Center
Graham's [ahem!] Law: The relative rates of diffusion of gases under the
same conditions are inversely proportional to the square roots of the
densities of those gases.
And don't you forget it ;-)!