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Dr. Shark

Mon Apr 23 2007, 06:22PM

Registered Member #75 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 09:30AM
Location: Montana, USA
Posts: 711

I work as a geek, even though I am not one.

I am on this (luckily paid) PhD program in Neuroinformatics, playing with MatLab all day and trying to create neural networks that mimic the visual cortex in some broad sense.

Jrz, have you tried sneaking out a couple of those IGBTs from your shop, to build a giant (yeah, take one of those 3GW engines, too) Tesla Coil death ray?

Ken M.

Mon Apr 23 2007, 08:37PM

Registered Member #618 Joined: Sat Mar 31 2007, 04:15AM
Location: Us-Great Lakes
Posts: 628

I'm jelous most you guys have good jobs, but have been out of college for a fair amount of time...I work in food services untill I can find a job in Elctronic Engineering. Been out of College for 1 year now and still don't have a job....

Dave Marshall

Tue Apr 24 2007, 01:14AM

Registered Member #16 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:22PM
Location: New Wilmington, PA
Posts: 554

As most members know I'm enlisted in the USAF.

The technical title of my job is 1A371 Airborne Mission Systems Specialist. I fly on the E-8C Joint STARS aircraft and operate, maintain, and repair the side-looking phased array (ground surveillance) radar system, as well as the 28 individual computers and 31 radios on the jet.

When I'm not stuck in the sandbox doing that job, or on a training sortie stateside, I'm also the network administrator for the squadron. I maintain the 240 windows XP machines and the associated bits.

And of course, the obligatory photo:

Dave

AndrewM

Tue Apr 24 2007, 02:45AM

Registered Member #49 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:05AM
Location: Bigass Pile of Penguins
Posts: 362

thedatastream wrote ...

I work for the UK based tentacle of Echostar / Dish Network as an Electronics Engineer, currently hardware project leader on a satellite receiver product.

I don't know which orbital slots they're destined for (US or UK), but we're building two birds for you as we speak. I inspected the sensors on one of them today, means its gettin close...

Vaxian

Tue Apr 24 2007, 03:35AM

Registered Member #635 Joined: Tue Apr 10 2007, 01:56AM
Location:
Posts: 85

I am an Eddy Current Specialist.

I do non destructive testing on equipment at Nuclear Power Plants in the US and Canada.

NO, I don't glow in the dark! (yet)

Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Tue Apr 24 2007, 03:55AM

Registered Member #135 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
Location: Anywhere is fine
Posts: 1735

I'm really nothing special compared to these other guys. No special job or benefits, but I'm trying to make up for that in collaberation and improving the knoweldge base around here.

For the most part I'm a Controls Systems Student, going to graduate in Dec. I spend a lot of time on MatLab tweaking signals and writing funcitons for school projects.

Right now I'm tweaking the code for the pendulum car, and hopefully our class will have the state space observer and controller by next week.

I am designing a Mercury Displacement Relay replacement switch for one company now, and I help fix biomedical monitors for another small company for the time being.

what I do on the side:
Scientific Glassblowing
Optimization and simulation of Tesla Coils
Scientific demos for kids
Chemistry
Physics
Playing with vacuum equipment (trying to fix pumps right now)
Woodworking
Metalwork
Electronics in a broad sense (from concept to finished product)

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I'm interviewing for Northrup Space Systems right now. I hope they want me.

Bennem

Tue Apr 24 2007, 05:57AM

Registered Member #154 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:28PM
Location: Westmidlands, UK
Posts: 260

Wow !....What awesome jobs you guys have!

Me you ask?....i'm just your average TV repair man
who tends to bore the pants off everyone at work
talking about tesla coiling.......lol

vasil

Tue Apr 24 2007, 08:37AM

Registered Member #229 Joined: Tue Feb 21 2006, 07:33PM
Location: Romania
Posts: 506

I am physician (medical oncology). No nice pics to share about this activity (better not). I like to build electric stuff in my spare time (going low lately) as a non-medical hobby (winding a few hundred turns is an excelent anti-stress activity).

Electroholic

Tue Apr 24 2007, 10:30AM

Registered Member #191 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 02:01AM
Location: Esbjerg Denmark
Posts: 720

heh, im in 2nd year chemical engineering and im failing thermo dynamics because and i spend all of my time designing the electrical systems for the university's solarcar.

Tesladownunder

Tue Apr 24 2007, 10:55AM

Registered Member #10 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
Location: Bunbury, Australia
Posts: 1424

As it says on my site: "I collect pens".
This pic taken before the mid life crisis when I stopped wearing a watch or a tie and shifted down from car to bike.

TDU

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