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Mr. Joel Britt Dixon, P.E., M.ASCE

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Mr. Joel Dixon, P.E., M.ASCE


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RE: Cognitive Biases

Posted By Joel Dixon 02-19-2021 02:41 PM
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How much does our professional cognitive bias influence our practise? Let's take transportation design as an example: We make traffic and population growth projections, often linearly extrapolating a current short-term trend decades into the future. Time and again, after funding massively expensive projects ...

RE: Archaeological Discoveries Anyone?

Posted By Joel Dixon 02-05-2021 03:48 PM
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Jameelah, I appreciate your enthusiasm for our history and archaeology! For most projects on which I've been involved, owners, developers, and engineers deride the need for archaeological interrogations. Rather than having an interest in what may have come before, they seem to view such investigations ...

RE: What are Civil Engineers and Engineering Educators doing to improve the level of civil engineering university education to meet the needs of the practicing 21st Century Civil Engineer beyond their traditional technical topics?

Posted By Joel Dixon 01-07-2021 03:33 PM
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As I grow older and gain a better understanding of the world, it strikes me that our profession would benefit from a strong foundation in the liberal arts. Understanding literature, culture, art, the humanities, and language help us to relate to the human beings the engineering profession is here to ...

RE: Social Impacts of Green Stormwater Infrastructure

Posted By Joel Dixon 04-02-2020 12:11 PM
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Vini, I think one of the aspects one must consider when it comes to the issue of "gentrification" is what has been referred to as the trickle vs. the fire hose. Too often in our neighbourhoods -- especially those deemed "disadvantaged" -- we see two responses: Either a) a starvation of investment ...

RE: Quarantine Good Reads

Posted By Joel Dixon 03-27-2020 12:48 PM
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I read To Engineer is Human several years ago and enjoyed it; it's been on my list to re-read for a while. Perhaps I'll take this quarantine time to do so! ------------------------------ Joel Dixon P.E., M.ASCE Project Manager Oklahoma City OK ------------------------------

RE: How are engineering firms handling the coronavirus situation?

Posted By Joel Dixon 03-20-2020 09:50 AM
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I've heard of a lot of different companies utilising this strategy, however, unless you're doing a deep-clean disinfection of your offices between every shift change, you run the risk of cross-contamination in the office. Research is showing that the virus is persistent on a variety of surfaces for days, ...

RE: What Questions Would You Ask Presidential Candidates about America's Infrastructure?

Posted By Joel Dixon 02-14-2020 11:44 AM
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This isn't so much a question, since the window for submission is closed, but we spend so much time focused on the amount of money we spend (or more often don't spend) on infrastructure without asking the more fundamental question of whether we have the right kind of infrastructure. Our development pattern ...

RE: How can the (civil) engineering profession influence licensure exemption organizations to value licensing and what are the possible value propositions to the organization?

Posted By Joel Dixon 02-12-2020 04:38 PM
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If we start treating engineering like medicine, I think we'll start to see the same problems in engineering that we see in medicine: Specifically, a lack of practitioners and increased costs to the consumer. Of course, for those lucky few who do make it into the profession, it's likely to be financially ...

RE: Scooter Revolution

Posted By Joel Dixon 10-25-2019 03:14 PM
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We have scooters here in OKC and I think they're an asset for any community. As a newer mode of transportation, sure, there will be growing pains (look at the turn of the 20th Century to see how difficult it was for communities to adapt to the emergence of automobiles). Scooters, however, have many more ...

RE: Hindsight is 20/20

Posted By Joel Dixon 09-27-2019 10:45 AM
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Two big take-aways for me: As an ROTC student at university, I didn't worry much about getting experience and internships while in school since I had my job already lined-up after graduation. At that time, I expected to make the Army my career. Five years after graduation, however, I had had enough ...

RE: How has getting your PE helped your career?

Posted By Joel Dixon 08-30-2019 10:08 AM
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Acquiring my P.E. allowed me to transition my career back to Civil Engineering. After five years of Active Duty service as an Army Combat Engineer, my first civilian job took me into the Petroleum industry. While lucrative and interesting -- I learned A LOT I didn't know about oil and gas -- my heart ...