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Dear Mitchell, thanks for sharing!! I have only used AI to check my work and rewrite my documents to improve the tone or style (ProWritingAid, DeepL, and Grammarly). However, tools such as Elicit can help you find references for your research (previous work) and establish a theoretical framework. AI ...

Dear Douglas, I couldn't agree more. I am constantly contacted by students and professionals through social networks (LinkedIn, Twitter) or email. They constantly look for benchmarks or guidance to succeed in life and always consider our "wisdom" to do that. This is an invitation to be alert ...

Hi Mitchell, we are currently dealing with a youth who wants, with the least amount of effort, to get maximum dividends. The case of civil engineering is a profession where physical and mental efforts are needed to train and develop the profession, and the income is not necessarily the highest in the ...

Dear Bill, as an engineering professor, our students have many shortcomings in many basic technical aspects and knowledge that should be cultivated in their passage through school. Universities and engineering programs shouldn't have to explain the concepts of hearing and listening since they are basic ...

Looking at the past also forces us to learn from historical damages such as fires or the fragility of massive structures made of clay elements. It is important to implement today's technology to look at and restructure past technology: wood structures and mixed structures. We have a monumental challenge: ...