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ScotchTapeLord

Sun Apr 10 2011, 01:03AM

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hsieh

Sun Apr 10 2011, 01:35AM

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This didn't happen in my school but I think this is stupid.

A university near my school owns a F-100A.Several years ago that school want to build a new road and don't have enough space.So that school torn the aircraft apart and decide to sell it as scrap metal.

But many student there hope to keep the aircraft.So now that school is considering to repair it.
The aircraft was cut apart using acetylene torch,how can they fix it?

Adam Munich

Sun Apr 10 2011, 03:02AM

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Ash Small wrote ...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....'Who needs school when there are forums like this.....'

(I wish we had the internet when I was a kid)

The internet has taught me more than my school ever has. It has given me intellectual smarts as well as excellent critical thinking and foresight ability.

It also desensitized me :p, but because of that I can now look at problems from a "third person" view without any emotional bias, and then solve them the most logical way.

dmg

Sun Apr 10 2011, 03:33AM

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As for me:

I kinda learned my stuff from other people and books, then the internet just added onto it.

Steve Conner

Sun Apr 10 2011, 06:44AM

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Holy crap, ladies and gentlemen, we have a member who talks to other people and reads books. :D

If you learnt more from the Internet than your school, your school must be particularly useless, or your concept of what constitutes learning somewhat shallow. The Internet is like a giant encyclopaedia, with masses of what, where and who, but to learn "how" you need teaching by people who already know how. In other words, someone to stand over you with a stick and force you to do math.

It's also not peer reviewed, so pseudoscience spouted by cranks can appear to have equal standing to, say, CERN's website. (Not that the creators of the Large Hadron Rap aren't maybe a bit cranky themselves.)

Bored Chemist

Sun Apr 10 2011, 09:41AM

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My old school was closed down and burned down; not in that order.

quicksilver

Wed Apr 13 2011, 12:43AM

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Long before one could access networked university systems (DARPA, etc) I would simply hang out in various libraries & basically it accomplished the same thing as the internet. It was a bit more work, a bit limited in scope in certain areas but no SPAM, advertising, malware, Viagra commercials, & insidious amounts of lies, poorly documented disclosures, or political agenda disguised as truths. There are a lot to be said for libraries.

However, I agree that basically the 'net is in many ways a huge encyclopedia. It is, what you make of it. However there is a great deal of "[intellectual] buyer beware" on the 'net. In agenda such as electronic engineering, either something works or it does not (with more or less efficiency) but in many other areas there is a larger and often less obvious "grey area" where decent documentation is mandatory for effective learning. There can be an insidious level of BS that can go unnoticed or unchallenged.

Dave Marshall

Thu Apr 14 2011, 02:39PM

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I take comfort in the fact that our school district here is *expanding* their industrial arts classes as quickly as they can scrape up the cash to fund new equipment. The economy in this town is built unequivocally upon the Tool & Die trade. 300 independent shops in a county with less than 100,000 residents. ChannelLock tools has both of their primary plants here, and a significant portion of GM's sheet metal and injection molded components are made here.

When I left school, we had an aluminum foundary, 6 Bridgeport mills, and 8 very nice lathes. We had a small CNC mill, and a full drafting and CAD lab. We also had a complete welding shop, a decent wood shop, and some sheet metal equipment as well.

My understanding is that the shop facilities have been expanded at least once since I graduated, and are even more comprehensive now. They've added home improvement/repair classes, basic electronics classes, they have a robotics team and a battlebot team that both consistently clean up at local competitions, and I think they started an intro to building construction course that parlays into the Carpentry course at the Vocational school.

That was just for the elective shop classes you could take during the normal high school and middle school curriculum. If you wanted to go beyond that, you could do a half day of core classes 4 days a week, and spend the other half of your school day at the county Vocational school across the parking lot. Upon graduating from High School, you also earned several NIMS certificates if you were in the machining course. There is also welding, nursing, carpentry, electronics, IT, automotive, agriculture, and a few other courses you can take during high school that all end with industry certifications in the field of study, all free.

Those programs are a big reason this is one of the better school districts in the state, and why unemployment in the 18-30 demographic is *always* well below state average in this county.

-Dave

dmg

Thu Apr 14 2011, 11:03PM

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Lucky you dave,

Apparently the mentality with the school board here is that dancing gets more jobs then machining, metal fabrication and design.

magnet18

Fri Apr 15 2011, 12:46AM

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Proud to say our school still uses it's machine shop, they have students make things like soccer goals and teach welding.
I live in one of those little farm communities where students that want to be farmers > students that want to be engineers.
As such, I have learned everything remotely related to electricity on the interwebs.
I like my school, even though were a farming town, we have large touchscreen-projector setups in every room K-12, and an excess of computers and bandwidth. It's nice. Now they just need to get around to buying ram, the current stuff isn't worth popping out of the cases (which I could do in <30 seconds) and fortunately for anyone who knows what command prompt means, the security is crap

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