Unanswered Questions
20 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Moderator resignation
Effective today, I am resigning as moderator on Engineering and Software Engineering.
I find that Robert Harvey's resignation expresses my thoughts more eloquently than what I would write, so I'll ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Engineering's first moderator election has come to a close and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your ...
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Should we implement the mhchem package to be able to typeset chemical formulas?
When Im active on chemistry.SE, I use this feature, which allows you to typeset chemical formulas into the latex framework, a lot. And I can imagine quite a few circumstances where it could be handy e....
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Embedded.SE shutting down
Embedded.StackExchange is no longer. The official reason is listed here at their Area51 page:
The Embedded Systems site didn't have enough activity during the beta and has been closed.
And while ...
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Expanding our public beta audience
It's now been one month since Engineering.SE entered private beta.
In that month, you've helped to collect nearly 250 questions and 400 answers on engineering topics ranging from steering devices and ...
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Private Beta Site: Materials Modeling
If this is off-topic, I can take it down, but I think its valuable to support other science sites in the network.
Materials Modeling SE entered private beta at the end of April. The site aims to ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: Engineering will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 27, 2018 to bring in two moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack Exchange....
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Moderator Election Question: How to attract active netizens
This is a question to be answered by wannabe moderators (per Announcing a Pro Tempore election).
There have been many times where the answer is on Meta "Have the community nominate it for deletion" ...
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Science stack exchanges helping other science stack exchanges!
The Physics Meta promotes support for all Science sites on Stack Exchange, in this post. The same meta post is now on several other science SE Meta sites.
The Engineering SE is one of the sites that ...
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Is there a policy for questions/discussions which lead to a new discovery?
I believe that a forum like this provides one with the possibility of sourcing a wide spectrum of engineering know-how thus it could be a useful and efficient medium for developing projects or ...
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Is this the correct section to as about fluid dynamics of small fans?
I'm trying to design a stator to be 3D printed and applied to a normal computer fan, to increase flow and so on.
I would like to ask (after providing more data) about the expected velocity ...
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Can we have a “pump specification for newbies” Q&A
I actually started one, then deleted because I was unsure. The question would be along the lines of:
We get lots of naive question on pumps and pumping systems. This site could use a concise guide to ...
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Delete or answer?
I posted a question, How can thin wire in generator windings carry the high output current?. It turns out it is answered by a previous question on another site, so I want to close the loop and not ...