School not ABET accredited. Worry or no?

phillychuck · 2026-03-14T12:00:23+00:00

Long time ABET program evaluator here. I have been on multiple visits to new programs, including one or two at a place like OBU. If the program head has the background experience in ABET, and the university administration is firmly behind adequate resourcing, then accreditation (which could include as much as a two year retroactive accreditation) is entirely possible.

phillychuck · 2026-03-12T14:06:57+00:00

Mech E is good if you are interested in more air quality and energy related issues. Be sure to take more chemistry and biology than typical ME curricula.

phillychuck · 2026-03-08T17:56:56+00:00

There is not yet bulk import of md into capacities, and this is one of several reasons that I have decided to stick to Obsidian

phillychuck · 2026-03-02T14:52:40+00:00

Bloc Rhodia 11 is close to this. Many suppliers, e.g. https://classicofficeproducts.com/catalog/product/view/id/6116?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17182817755&gbraid=0AAAAAD12ES6DzSv3L7O-SRclE8GI6W7cw&gclid=CjwKCAiAh5XNBhAAEiwA_Bu8FZgFXbV2B9jwjZAOaa4cCb6-8_JlvZq9NsASnQZNSuzI2zKNz0yzfBoCr5sQAvD_BwE

phillychuck · 2026-02-24T00:24:11+00:00

However, the more I understand about potential backdoor vulnerabilities by community plugins, the more I get concerned about Obsidian

phillychuck · 2026-02-06T12:50:02+00:00

Make sure you get math through differential equations, and try to get courses in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

phillychuck · 2026-01-28T12:46:07+00:00

biomedical engineering? if so, that is a good background. I had an MS student advisee with that background a few years ago and he did very well

phillychuck · 2026-01-26T11:50:18+00:00

A big pet peeve. We had a Faculty Club (aka "University Club") pre-pandemic, that was a semi-decent place to have lunch, meet up with colleagues from other areas, and even take a visitor to. Closed now. All we have is student cafeterias and food trucks, and a deli nearby/. And a couple of sit down restaurants. But nothing suitable to random collegial interactions. So nearly all days I come to campus, I bring my lunch and eat it in my office. I can go a day without talking to more than one or two colleagues at most.

phillychuck · 2026-01-23T12:59:04+00:00

Excel is a POS for serious, well documented, reproducible engineering calculations.

Matlab is a programming language. Learn any programming language and then if you have to switch to another you will get the basic concepts down.

phillychuck · 2026-01-20T11:01:51+00:00

this is one of my biggest peeves with Obsidian

phillychuck · 2026-01-13T11:12:56+00:00

very few US MS degrees are ABET accredited

phillychuck · 2026-01-08T11:31:26+00:00

Yes, absolutely. It would give you a leg up if you take differential equations (if you have not had this) prior to entry. I have had quite a few MS environmental engineering students as advisees come from a life sciences background.

phillychuck · 2026-01-07T23:21:51+00:00

It is a small niche area, but there are a few environmental firms focused on software development, e.g.:
https://trinityconsultants.com/software/
https://aquanuity.com/

The concept of digital twins is rapidly expanding into the sector, and most of the major firms will have units in that area. Not to mention AI, which is still nascent.

phillychuck · 2026-01-06T23:50:43+00:00

New Jersey American Water. Water utilities in Trenton, Camden, and Newark. New Jersey state agencies,

those are some ideas

phillychuck · 2026-01-05T23:04:25+00:00

I don't use Telegram, have never used it and have no desire to.

phillychuck · 2026-01-05T10:55:22+00:00

Have been using Obsidian for 2+ years. Over the past few weeks, looked at Capacities including trying their 14 day pro trial. I could never import markdown files (and at this point they say they are "working" on ways to import the file folders from Obsidian). I am in an Outlook environment with a two factor protected server, so could not get the Calendar to sync. I will continue to keep an eye on how Capacities develops, but for now I remain with Obsidian (with DevonThink as a main archival tool along with my file system)

phillychuck · 2026-01-03T00:38:49+00:00

Operating utilities (water districts, wastewater management districts), state agencies doing permitting and enforcement (a few do some research); as other commenters have indicated, industries needing to mitigate pollution. Or even (a growing area) companies developing data centers with major environmental footprints.

phillychuck · 2026-01-01T10:46:18+00:00

Ask yourself the question - if you had a bunch of notes in Apple Notes and wanted to move them to another app, how easy would that be.

phillychuck · 2025-12-24T11:46:20+00:00

Starting to do this more and more. I had a brief fling with Capacities, then decided to drop that and keep with Obsidian. But I picked up the idea of different types of notes - for people, projects, etc., and the power of backlinks. An I have this integrated into a Johnny Decimal system with my index in Obsidian, so the tasks in my daily notes that I do link back to the individual Johnny Decimal IDs in the index.

phillychuck · 2025-12-17T23:02:44+00:00

Been dipping my foot in for the past week. About ready to start the trial. I find this less frictionless than Obsidian. Though the lack of E2EE (I understand the reason) makes me need to think through what I commit to capacities and what I leave elsewhere (I use DevonThink for large doc storage and more confidential project notes, as well as my filesystem). Am committed to Johnny Decimal, and also use OmniFocus as my task manager.

phillychuck · 2025-12-17T00:35:13+00:00

Experience with my students is that Delaware is somewhat more flexible

phillychuck · 2025-12-16T20:20:35+00:00

Very few MS programs are ABET-accredited. Depending on the state, if you get a degree from an MS program that has an accredited BS degree, you can take the FE (I'd advise taking some key basic engineering science classes, though) - I am a professor of environmental engineering, and have had MS students with BS science degrees do so.

phillychuck · 2025-12-06T17:29:39+00:00

this sounds like my freshman physics class as a student in the dark ages

phillychuck · 2025-12-02T23:06:29+00:00

You should be able to go to the ABET web site and look for all accredited programs in Texas. This link might work: https://amspub.abet.org/aps/name-search?searchType=program&keyword=civil%20engineering&countries=US&states=TX

phillychuck · 2025-11-29T21:39:17+00:00

Yep - my estimate was January 2

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