The invitation was met with skepticism among the engineering community.
The above-mentioned formula is also known in the engineering community.
It also has furnished 84 technical newsletters for the engineering community.
It has 16,223 members at the present moment, representing the nation-wide engineering community.
"The engineering community doesn't like the idea of waivers," he said.
"Having someone at his level saying these things and bringing up the discussion is certainly a good thing for the engineering community."
There has been a lot of strife in the natural sciences and engineering community about this.
The feeling within the engineering community was that it was realistic and could be done.
"The expertise, the conferences and the engineering community in our field are elsewhere."
Several models for predicting the ultimate strength have been used by the engineering community with varying levels of success.