Being an Intern
An internship is beneficial in so many ways. My experience at R&W as an intern has given me direction and insight into the engineering field as well as provided me with valuable workplace experience. Before starting college I had no…
Remote Troubleshooting / Monitoring SCADA
Unless you had a nearly unlimited budget, your list of options regarding remote monitoring used to be quite slim. Since the invention of the internet, a world of possibilities has been opened and now that this technology is readily available…
How Detailed Utility Coordination Benefits Your Project
Surprises. They’re wonderful when it’s your birthday or when a coworker brings in a sweet treat to share. (Voodoo Doughnuts anyone?) However, they’re not so welcome when a project goes to construction. The last thing anyone wants to deal with…
ODOT Sisters Maintenance Building – Taking the Long View
Can there be anything cool and blog-worthy about a maintenance garage with support offices in the high desert of Central Oregon? Generally, no there cannot. But in the case of the ODOT Sisters Maintenance Building the answer would be a…
A Lesson in CFD
There are certain moments in life when you see something and it just speaks to you. The first time I saw Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in action, was one such time. I was watching a television show on Boeing Aircraft…
Low Hanging Fruit Energy Upgrades
Would you rather walk 1 mile to get $100 or 100 miles to get $1? Except for an extreme walker, this question is a no-brainer. Just as water flows downhill and as nature abhors a vacuum, we all naturally take…
Casual for a Cause Fridays Hits a Milestone
Eleven years ago, R&W Engineering began a tradition that would impact many lives for years to come. Casual Friday for a Cause not only allotted for the employees to dress in their favorite comfortable pair of jeans on fabulous Friday,…
The Enginerd
The Enginerd. He is the unfortunate result of unofficially adventurous tedium’s of engineering combined with the additionally tiresome cross-referencing of restrictions placed by countless numbers of officials and experts tying hands at every turn to collate into a vortex of…
Humans ≠ Numbers
Imagine a workspace of twelve-by-twelve cubicle after twelve-by-twelve cubicle filling the entire floor space. Common thought would consider this a boring place, not because of its lack of interesting features, but because of its sameness. Its sameness with all other offices in the world.…
Financial Incentives for Green Construction
In the recent movie 'Lincoln' by Steven Spielberg, Abraham Lincoln is faced with a difficult choice that will affect millions of lives, current and future. The Civil War is in its fourth year, Lincoln has just been reelected to a…
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