Portal talk:Engineering/Archive 3

Improving engineering articles
An interesting discussion is taking place in User_talk:Mbeychok/MRB's_Survey_of_Wikipedian_Engineers. Please share your thoughts! --Zvika 09:37, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Major Changes
If no one minds, I am going to be fiddling around with the engineering portal a bit, since it recently appeared on the Pages needing cleanup section of Wikipedia. If you have any problems with what I'm doing, please post a message with your changes so we can avoid any kind of version war. Also, I would like to state for the record that I am a mechanical engineer, so if I misstate something about another branch of engineering feel free to correct me. - Ame Errante 18:23, 20 June 2006 (UTC) Kmf164, Thank you for the edits. This portal is certainly in need of a few changes... One thing you changed that I reverted, however, is the name of the article displayed on the portal. The title 'Featured Article' is correct in this case, because the article has been marked as being a Featured Article by Wikipedia, as are all articles posted to this box. The image. however, is not officially considered Featured, so we instead call it 'Selected'. As for the selected picture, you are absolutely right, it is in serious need of updating... I'll see what I can find, but the current one is just so cool that it'll be hard... Anyway, thanks again, and take care. Sincerely, Brandon (Âme Errante 04:22, 22 June 2006 (UTC))
 * Go ahead Ame, nothing better that seeing another wikipedian working to get involved in improving a page. I'll keep an eye on the Chemical Eng. branch. Thanks. --Ozzyprv 12:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I just made some minor formatting edits to the selected article, which I'm super glad to see was updated today. :)  Engineering is not my topic of expertise, but I notice other aspects of the portal that also need updated (e.g. selected picture).  Feel free to update that too, and make any other updates you think are needed.  Thanks. -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 00:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, I added a new image to the portal. I suppose the question now is: how long before we add a new article and image? Should this be a once a month thing, a once a week thing, or what? Also, if we want to cycle the articles and images automatically, I have a bit of php from a site I wrote a while back that will allow us to set up a queue such that the articles are cycled based on the date... I just have to ask Wikipedia about implementing Perl on their servers... -Âme Errante 05:24, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Refrigeration pages
I hope to organize the pages on refrigeration and air conditioning. My working outline is User:Tom harrison/ToDo. I'd appreciate input on how to proceed and what pages to include. Feel free to add to that list or change it. If there is enough interest, I'll make a seperate page somehwere for discussion. Tom Harrison Talk 14:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Mechanical Engineering Page Rework
I am currently planning on reworking the entire Mechanical engineering page as it is clearly in need of work. I plan to use the layout for Electrical engineering as a template for the page. If anyone would like to collaborate on this with me in a more organized way than just editing feel free to contact me on my talk page. Jeb8828 04:06, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Engineering by Country
Hey I suggest for this portal to add a section were a list of countries is, which those link to articles detailing ifo about engineers and their invents. All this because there are such many invents developed on all countries through history.--Walter Humala 01:17, 23 August 2006 (UTC) --Walter Humala 22:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Template for fundamental topics in engineering
FYI: You may review the request for fundamental topics in engineering template here. Thanks. -- Myth (Talk) 18:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

FYI geophysical engineering prodded
Someone WP:PRODded geophysical engineering. 132.205.44.5 22:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Temporary page for WikiProject Engineering created
A temporary page for a future WikiProject Engineering has been cretaed at User:Tbo 157/WikiProject Engineering. Interested users should add their name to the list and are encouraged to help improve the page so that it is ready to be moved to the Wikipedia space when there are enough participants. Cheers! Raime 23:50, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The official project page has now been created at WP:ENGINEERING. Any one who interested should sign their name on the participant list, as we really need more members. Thank you! Rai - me  20:49, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Picture
I followed Image:Speed1c.png from the Energy portal because it looked fascinating, but couldn't find it anywhere on the page. It's such an excellent pic, we should have it on the page somewhere (as per Energy Portal). Dhatfield (talk) 19:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)then it was a good decesion to make them it to better.

Where are the chemical engineers?
I was stunned by the absense of Chem Eng from the lead description. Are we called something else in the rest of the world? Dhatfield (talk) 19:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Advert removed
And if you're thinking of putting it back, please don't. You do a discredit to your institution. This is an encyclopedia. Got it? Good. Dhatfield (talk) 10:00, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Definition of Engineer
I know this is going to open a storm of comments, but I would like to revise the definition of engineer from "design and build" to "design objects and their method of manufacture" as engineers are not technicians, and do not actually build anything but plans to give to technologists and technicians.

I believe it's time we started to precisely define what our occupation does and does not do.

Arguably it's not the designing anyway (an architect designs...), its the applications of scientific principles and theories to resolve problems while considering their environmental, social and legal consequences. 131.202.11.233 (talk) 18:00, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Industrial design and Design portal
Hi guys! We just opened the Design portal for business and would appreciate if you could put a link to it in the 'Related portals' section of your portal. Thanks in advance! -- AlainR345 Techno-Wiki-Geek 08:26, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Anyone have a problem with me adding the design portal?
Also, while I'm on the subject does anyone mind me updating the featured image/articles as they come round each month? Seems to have been left for quite a while... Sam Lacey (talk) 13:34, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Beach Nourishment
I would like to revamp the "beach nourishment" page. I also have a COI. I would appreciate it, if someone could review my edit in a timely manner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beach_nourishment Under Beach Nourishment Revamp. Please let me know what you think. Thanks. Weissmax25 (talk) 18:08, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Engineering Portal Revamp *This is current!!!!!*
Sorry to hijack the top of this page but i think it is quite important I have completely recreated the engineering portal in my sandbox which will hopefully represent a massive improvement in its quality. I intend to replace the current page in one month (27/8/2010) if no one objects. Please could you have a look and comment on what you think.

The page is on User:Samdlacey/sandbox

Sam Lacey (talk) 21:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

FYI (from it.wiki)
FYI, on it.wiki it:Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Richiesta_di_aiuto_per_le_voci_sui_tubi_e_roba_del_genere we have just realized that the articles concerning plumbing et similia in many wikis are. let's say, horrible. In many wikis they are often incomplete and full of warnings, and translation are confused, with interwikilinks showing a rate of asymmetry higher than other sectors. We are therefore exploring the possibility to create a (sub)project about hydrodynamics, tubing, piping..., named something like "idraulica e aeraulica" (basically, "Hydraulics", the second word may be translated like "air processing" but it does not give the same "taste" in English). In any case, the question is, if you think that this effort of restyling and "Knot Untying" may also concern your articles, please contact me (or I will give you other contacts) in the following months, I speak English and Spanish and German and Italian and French and I would help you with pleasure, hoping this to induce a more balanced growth.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:14, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

James C. Marshall
I have written an article on James C. Marshall (but it has little on his career before or after the Manhattan District, of which he was the first District Engineer. Who has more information on him? NB: until recently there was no article on Kenneth Nichols the second District Engineer either. Hugo999 (talk) 06:01, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Template for Diagrams
Below is a sample using Template:Annotated image 4, which allows a diagram to have links to Wikipedia articles. This is helpful to the viewers/users, and please click "Edit" on this page to see the Template. I would appreciate this template being used, as it is very helpful in Engineering diagrams.

Twillisjr (talk) 18:33, 25 October 2016 (UTC)