Simpson Governance and Hager firm preheat procedure violation

Welding engineer walks the shop on Monday morning, finds the workpiece cold, asks the welder; welder replies "we did that on Friday." Used to illustrate that field-welding procedures fail when the welder doesn't understand the principle.

Okay, I gave you a handout a few days ago — last week, I think it was last Thursday. This is out of Stout and Doty's book. Let's say that someone — and I gave you the example that I used to work with this Simpson Gumpertz and Heger firm. These were three MIT civil engineers back in the 1950s. They started their own company; it's now got five or six hundred engineers, several offices around the —