Not I - my least favorite disciplineI'm toying around with some design concepts that might benefit from such expertise.
I find Clark Griswalds use of extension cords is ingenious, but did leave it a little messy and cluttered around the outlet. I’d clean that up with a couple hand fulls of zip ties. How can I help?I'm toying around with some design concepts that might benefit from such expertise.
I'm afraid to say yes...but, yes!?!I'm toying around with some design concepts that might benefit from such expertise.
The number of times someone has asked me about their "free" energy designs....I'm afraid to say yes...but, yes!?!
I get a lot of home wiring questions, which I can do, but I didn't get that knowledge in Simrall...The number of times someone has asked me about their "free" energy designs....
Your comment just unearthed a deeply buried childhood memory of the guy from Lucedale that invented a perpetual motion machineThe number of times someone has asked me about their "free" energy designs....
Hear me out - solar road panels. They can use solar energy to melt snow & ice in the winter. Light up the roads so you can see better in bad weather.The number of times someone has asked me about their "free" energy designs....
Need you to do some where is he now research. Is his kid carrying the baton?Your comment just unearthed a deeply buried childhood memory of the guy from Lucedale that invented a perpetual motion machine
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Joseph W. Newman, a self-educated inventor in the Mississippi backwoods, has built a contraption he claims converts mass into more energy than it uses and...www.upi.com
Panels embedded in the road? They would break too often and cost a lot. Also, not a lot of sun will reach it if there is snow already covering them.Hear me out - solar road panels. They can use solar energy to melt snow & ice in the winter. Light up the roads so you can see better in bad weather.
Sadly enough, you don't have to just rely on common sense to determine that. People have actually tried. Never quite understood the rational for wanting to do solar roadways before fully utilizing surfaces that didn't have tons of weight and wear and tear put on them. But I'm sure somebody got some grant money and subsidies for it, so there's that.Panels embedded in the road? They would break too often and cost a lot. Also, not a lot of sun will reach it if there is snow already covering them.
Better use of roads + electricity would be to inductive charge electric cars/tractor trailers on the interstate, but that would also cost a ton and would break.
KETCHUP AND MUSTARD IN THE SAME BOTTLEHear me out - solar road panels. They can use solar energy to melt snow & ice in the winter. Light up the roads so you can see better in bad weather.
Had totally forgotten about that guy. I wonder what ever happened to him.Your comment just unearthed a deeply buried childhood memory of the guy from Lucedale that invented a perpetual motion machine
Undaunted backwoods inventor claims energy generator will change world - UPI Archives
Joseph W. Newman, a self-educated inventor in the Mississippi backwoods, has built a contraption he claims converts mass into more energy than it uses and...www.upi.com
In 1987 he announced a run for the American Presidency, claiming that God had instructed him to run in order that the extinction of humanity by 1999 might be averted, and that Nostradamus had predicted his existence. In 1989 Newman claimed, while already married, to have married his secretary and her 8-year-old daughter, acting on orders from God. The daughter was removed from his home by the authorities.
My oldest daughter is a CE with SoCal Gas. She has no regrets about her degree, but has said she sometimes thinks it might have been more fun or interesting to get an ME degree instead.Not I - my least favorite discipline
I’m a degreed ME - now working in the renewable energy world and I find myself remembering why it was my least favorite
Throughout my career I’ve believed that my one EE class was the biggest missed opportunity in my whole engineering curriculum. They wasted my time with theory when some real world examples would’ve been soooo much more useful for the non-EEs in there.I'm afraid to say yes...but, yes!?!
Well, it was likely led by a prof who had gone to EE school, gone to EE school again, gone to EE school again and did not have any relatable experience or idea how all that stuff might actually work in in the real world.Throughout my career I’ve believed that my one EE class was the biggest missed opportunity in my whole engineering curriculum. They wasted my time with theory when some real world examples would’ve been soooo much more useful for the non-EEs in there.
You nailed that one!Well, it was likely led by a prof who had gone to EE school, gone to EE school again, gone to EE school again and did not have any relatable experience or idea how all that stuff might actually work in in the real world.
My last semester, a professor told me to think about electricity as if it were water. Circuits made a lot more sense then. Where was he 4 years earlier?Throughout my career I’ve believed that my one EE class was the biggest missed opportunity in my whole engineering curriculum. They wasted my time with theory when some real world examples would’ve been soooo much more useful for the non-EEs in there.
I remember thinking he was crazy for sure. Looks like there's a documentary available on Freevee. Might have to check it out.Had totally forgotten about that guy. I wonder what ever happened to him.
ETA: Turns out, he might have been a little nuts. There's a Wikipedia article on him. This is one of the sections:
You in the wood pellet industry, by any chance?Not I - my least favorite discipline
I’m a degreed ME - now working in the renewable energy world and I find myself remembering why it was my least favorite
I had to take EE Systems for my ChE degree. The message I took home from this class was hire an Electrical Engineer. That **** is voodoo. They have a practical, real world, use of the square root of negative one, a number that does not exist.Not I - my least favorite discipline
I’m a degreed ME - now working in the renewable energy world and I find myself remembering why it was my least favorite
Once I got the fluids analogy ingrained I never had a problem with circuits.Whenever I saw a circuit on a test, I knew I was screwed unless the guy beside me understood it. Thankfully ME’s didn’t have to deal with electricity problems often.
There is nothing worse than an engineering professor who never had a real job. I remember in process design Bricka freaking out when he learned half his class had gone through heat transfer and didn't even know what a heat exchanger was because the prof who taught them taught nothing but theory. She was soon run off from the department.Well, it was likely led by a prof who had gone to EE school, gone to EE school again, gone to EE school again and did not have any relatable experience or idea how all that stuff might actually work in in the real world.
MDOT has entered the chat and says…....”hold my beer”Hear me out - solar road panels. They can use solar energy to melt snow & ice in the winter. Light up the roads so you can see better in bad weather.
The better professors for EE and CE were always at the higher level classes. I felt it was to weed out some people. Circuits almost weeded me out. My dad talked me off the ledge and it got easier in the upper level classes because the teachers were better.My last semester, a professor told me to think about electricity as if it were water. Circuits made a lot more sense then. Where was he 4 years earlier?
I’m in a position where power factor and VARs are relevant. Hydraulics analogies are no longer helping this process hand, unfortunately.My last semester, a professor told me to think about electricity as if it were water. Circuits made a lot more sense then. Where was he 4 years earlier?
I am guessing some of you might have had my Dad for physics. If you didn’t work out your answer on paper… you weren’t gonna get a good grade. I have been told by many folks he was the real deal… Hard as hell…. But fair. Watching his mind fade away last year was the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with. That and his heart just stop working more every day.No but I am a marine biologist
Jack Denson?I am guessing some of you might have had my Dad for physics. If you didn’t work out your answer on paper… you weren’t gonna get a good grade. I have been told by many folks he was the real deal… Hard as hell…. But fair. Watching his mind fade away last year was the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with. That and his heart just stop working more every day.
But he loved to teach.
What I've been kicking around lately are some new electric guitar design ideas. Not so much the aesthetics, though that will be a concern at some point, but in function, new capabilities, etc. I have a number of ideas with a general sense or thoughts of how it should work, but I'm likely to reach a point where I'll want to collaborate with someone with a deeper understanding of how to actually put the ideas into practice, or working prototypes.I get a lot of home wiring questions, which I can do, but I didn't get that knowledge in Simrall...
First time I've seen the terms "fun" and "interesting" applied to an engineering field.My oldest daughter is a CE with SoCal Gas. She has no regrets about her degree, but has said she sometimes thinks it might have been more fun or interesting to get an ME degree instead.
First time I've seen the terms "fun" and "interesting" applied to an engineering field.
BTW, I was an EE major for approximately three weeks my freshman year before matriculating across the Drill Field to McCool Country Club.
That is shocking. I thought that analogy was basically universal for the entry level circuits type classes. Hell, I had an electrician use that analogy with me in high school. But I also thought that became less useful later on. I don't remember much beyond the very basics, and didn't do any advanced electrical or circuits classes, but thought we got to stuff that the water analogy wasn't useful for. Impedence? Right hand thumb rule? those are things, right? Don't think the water analogy was useful for those?My last semester, a professor told me to think about electricity as if it were water. Circuits made a lot more sense then. Where was he 4 years earlier?
Nah brother. My equipment works fine and my wife does the work.Impedence? Right hand thumb rule?