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We did it, Mr. Frodo. It's gone....it's done!

Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
Final presentation of senior design project to faculty: Done on Monday. Very good grade, and many positive comments.

Final presentation of senior design project to faculty and sponsor and some members from a related project team and the VP of another international company: Done this morning at 8:30am. It also went well too. Sponsor's reps were quite impressed.


College: Done. Now remaining are the formalities associated with the senior design conference - wait until the keynote speaker does his speech (incidentally, he was at our presentation), and then senior class pictures.


It's gone. It's done. The Precious has been passed along.

And then on the 7th day, he rested....before going back to work on Monday morning.





(Degree: B.S., Mechanical Engineering Technology)

 
Originally posted by: zeruty
blog dot anandtech dot com?
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Site 404'd.
So just keep telling me how awesome I am. Maybe I'll let you bask in the reflected glory. 😛
:laugh:



Now I can focus more on my internship, which may well become a job - a mechanical engineer, thrown into a job that wants me to be a little of each: mechanical, electrical, and computer engineer.:Q


 
congrats. dont wait too long to get your masters. Time flies by fast and before you know it, you'll be comfortable with a 9-5 life and find it incredibly difficult to enroll back in school.
 
Originally posted by: Epic Fail
Master's, PhD...
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Hush you...we'll see.🙂
I'm going to enjoy this reprieve for now.

I'd probably sooner go back for a B.S. in electrical engineering.

 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Epic Fail
Master's, PhD...
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Hush you...we'll see.🙂
I'm going to enjoy this reprieve for now.

I'd probably sooner go back for a B.S. in electrical engineering.
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If you already have a BS in mechanical engineering then you can just get an MS in electrical engineering. Don't waste your time with another BS degree.
 
Originally posted by: her209
What was the project about?
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Design and build a vibration absorber for the handle of a piece of construction equipment. The sponsor had been working on this problem for a few years with no success, so they gave it to us to figure out. 🙂

And I think that's about all I'm able to say about it. There were way too many pages of legal BS to be signed on this project about what can and can't be talked about.
😱



Originally posted by: CanOWorms
If you already have a BS in mechanical engineering then you can just get an MS in electrical engineering. Don't waste your time with another BS degree.
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So.....get a Master's Degree in electrical engineering, even though I've had only one semester of formal education in that subject matter? 😕


 
Good luck to you. I?m at a time in my life where I?m planning on a nice retirement. It?s good to see someone just starting out looking forward to a great career.

If you?re going for an advanced degree why not go for something in business? I have a BSIM (Industrial Management) and associates in ME & Accounting with a MBA in Business.
 
Originally posted by: FlashG
Good luck to you. I?m at a time in my life where I?m planning on a nice retirement. It?s good to see someone just starting out looking forward to a great career.

If you?re going for an advanced degree why not go for something in business? I have a BSIM (Industrial Management) and associates in ME & Accounting with a MBA in Business.
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I'm highly allergic to business type things. One business course everyone in my major was required to take was Project Management for Engineers. Apparently a lot of Penn State engineers get promoted to management, but surprise-surprise, they're better at engineering than they are at managing. So we now get to take a management class.
It was painful, and painfully easy. Typical test-prep time was about 15 minutes before I'd be utterly sick of looking at the material.
Through the semester, we had a single standalone homework assignment, which took about 30 minutes to finish.

The only other projects were SimProject - you have to hire, fire, and allocate various workers in order to finish some project I was able to use a spreadsheet to calculate which workers gave the highest overall efficiency per dollar, which definitely helped with the decision-making process.🙂
We were in the #1 spot until the 3rd week, when, due to a misunderstanding of how the game worked, we accidentally fired half of the project's team. All other decisions require you to click "Submit Decisions" to implement them. But firing someone? Nope. No confirmation. The firing takes place immediately, which we found out after the fact.

Then there was the final project. That felt like being assigned this: "Build 100,000 sand castles, constructed of one small pail of sand each."
It's not at all difficult, but it's just tedious as hell, and a lot of work.

So throughout the entire semester, excluding the two aforementioned projects, I spent less than 4 hours really spending time on test prep or homework. Final grade in the class: A-.


I'd rather not have another business type course, anymore than I'd want to take a class on fingerpainting or playing with blocks. 😉
I'm just not a businessman.



And don't even mention anything about marketing.




Originally posted by: Imp
Congrats, you got a very useful degree. Not being sarcastic.
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Couple that with the fact that I seem to be one of the few people in this particular MET bunch who is not deathly afraid of electronics. We're required to take an introductory electronics course as part of the degree. I was in a class with EETs. I'd have to guess that my final grade (98.25%) was pretty close to the top of the class. 🙂
I'm pretty good with the basics, but I can't really do design. For example, transistors - I can't do anything with them except release the magic blue smoke.


 
Congratulations on graduating and your successful end-game project. 🙂

Similar to what FlashG said; it's refreshing to see the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed new blood ready to get at'em. I hope that you "have it easy." I.E. get hired by a decent company, get to stick with the company and get rewarded for your hard work.

The Real World is not college though. Just b/c you have The Idea and The Skill to make it work does not mean that you'll be given the chance to present it or if you do, anyone will listen...and your paycheck may suffer for it.

If you always remember this sage advice you'll be fine: People suck. Everyone is out to get you. Nobody gives you a break; you make your own. Humans have two hands; they can shake your hand with the right whilst putting the knife in your back with the left. And the most important of all Cover Your Ass.

Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life!!! 🙂

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By the time you get to my age, I'll be retiring. Keep paying your Social Security; I want the chance to get paid from all the money I've invested so far.

pps
The real world is not as easy as "efficiency per dollar."
 
Congrats on completing your quest. Your prize is an ending that will last 80 years. Similar to the movie you referenced.

:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Congratulations on graduating and your successful end-game project. 🙂

Similar to what FlashG said; it's refreshing to see the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed new blood ready to get at'em. I hope that you "have it easy." I.E. get hired by a decent company, get to stick with the company and get rewarded for your hard work.
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The company I'm interning at right now seems to want to keep me. And it's a very nice place to work. The owner is still human, unlike the corrupted souls which seem to run quite a lot of other businesses - you know, the stage where workers become numbers instead of people. He knows the names of everyone in the company (small company, but still), and he's just, well, a nice guy. Full-time employees even get fully-paid health insurance.
Even through the rough economy now, he's also kept up his philanthropy as best as he can. One day one of the production facilities effectively shut down because they had invited a group of highschoolers in to tour the place. That's in the hopes that they get to see some real-world applications of technical skills, and nudge them towards something more than just high school - technical school at the very least.
And sponsorship of senior projects at my university was also still a priority.

The working environment is also just......great. There are some days that are frustrating, but on a lot of other days, I might get a little annoyed that it's quitting time, because I'm just wrapped up in the work. But I do still go home on time. 🙂
(Programming = frustrating. Laying out traces, putting together a schematic, or solving a mechanical problem = interesting. Yes, this job has me doing mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering.)

The Real World is not college though. Just b/c you have The Idea and The Skill to make it work does not mean that you'll be given the chance to present it or if you do, anyone will listen...and your paycheck may suffer for it.

If you always remember this sage advice you'll be fine: People suck. Everyone is out to get you. Nobody gives you a break; you make your own. Humans have two hands; they can shake your hand with the right whilst putting the knife in your back with the left. And the most important of all Cover Your Ass.

Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life!!! 🙂
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Yes, I'm familiar with "people" and the various fun attributes that some come with.
I acquired Cynicism lvl10++ throughout my tenure in middle and high school.



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By the time you get to my age, I'll be retiring. Keep paying your Social Security; I want the chance to get paid from all the money I've invested so far.
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There's always that lucrative Walmart Greeter position. 😉



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The real world is not as easy as "efficiency per dollar."
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As you climb the corporate ladder, it probably starts to look that way though.

"They are ants, Michael! They are ants!"



Originally posted by: MoPHo
Congrats on completing your quest. Your prize is an ending that will last 80 years. Similar to the movie you referenced.

:thumbsup:
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Without so many hairy feet.


 
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