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Simon wrote ...
Omicron wrote ...
All I do is ask the graduates for their text books, they give them to me, I read the books and do all assignments. Any body else do that?
At my uni there's a nice science/engineering library that's all I'll need. I mean, where your typical library might have a few books on hobbyist electronics, this one has a shelf devoted to semiconductor switches.
I saw a book called "Lizard Social Behaviour" there today. That's not something I've ever thought much about.
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Carbon_Rod wrote ...
Ben, it takes some real guts to go for a Physics masters. Are you thinking about any specific research areas or teaching?
I haven't decided, which is why I haven't gone back yet. I need to do it soon, before I get too old.
Desmo wrote ...
Andrew wrote ...
AAE450 - Spcecraft design
OMFG! What I would give for that course to be available here :(
It's not as much fun as it sounds like. My "favorite" subject from that course was "parametric cost modeling". It told us that our design would cost $10 billion. (which is kinda reasonable since it was an interplanetary space transportation system)
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It's not as much fun as it sounds like. My "favorite" subject from that course was "parametric cost modeling". It told us that our design would cost $10 billion. (which is kinda reasonable since it was an interplanetary space transportation system)
Ours just hit $130 billion. We're doing a lunar mission, with the ridiculous requirement of using a nuclear rocket for the transfer stages. So far we've outlined like 5 heavy lift vehicled larger than Saturn 5's, and about 10 other required vehicles for the mission.
I actually hate the class. Theres a whole lot of handwaving going on, and while some people are fine with that, and continually impressed with their own ability to make plots that have no true data in them, I'm not so thrilled. I'm tired of fighting with engineers who found a single AIAA or NASA paper detailing, for example, a 3W tank cooler for cryo propellant storage. 3W isn't enough to keep our tank cooled, and they insist that we cannot scale the cooler, or add another one, because 'they just don't work like that'. Their solution is to shrink the tank volume, and add more tanks until 3W is justified. ::sigh::
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What do you study / have studied
That's not something I've ever thought much about.
