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Derek_L

Wed Nov 21 2007, 02:25PM

Registered Member #1125 Joined: Fri Nov 16 2007, 09:13PM
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Avalanche

Wed Nov 21 2007, 06:36PM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
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Sulaiman wrote ...

I work for a company that repairs obsolescent industrial electronics.

Obsolete engineers repairing obsolete equipment !

If you've got some miscellaneous electronic item to be repaired,
no manual, no spare parts, no data, often no fault description
send it to us!

We have a department at the place I work where we do a similar thing called 'fit, form and function' repairs. Basically designing in modern components and techniques into antique equipment, to get it up and running again!

As for what I do... I'm now 3 months into my power electronics job and quite enjoying it despite the fact that I come home most evenings with a headache! I've been working on an inverter and controls to run a 50kW *sensorless* synchronous motor from standstill. The whole thing can be controlled over CAN bus. I just finished the PCB, it took about 2 weeks solid to lay out(!) and it's now being manufactured.

Coyote Wilde

Wed Nov 21 2007, 11:56PM

Registered Member #175 Joined: Tue Feb 14 2006, 09:32PM
Location: Sudbury, ON
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I just landed a job as a research assistant on the PICASSO experiment (picassoexperiment.ca)
--it's an experiment running at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory site (SNOLab) to attempt to detect dark matter-- neutralinos, specifically, these being the supersymmetric counterpart to the neutrino and one of the leading candidates for Cold Dark Matter (CDM). We're using droplet detectors, which work something like a bubble chamber of old: the droplets are superheated flourocarbons (flourine-19, having spin -1/2 is more prone to weak interactions with things like neutralinos) which explode to gas when imparted energy by a particle interaction. The explosion is detected by piezoelectric microphones surrounding the chamber, which allows us to triangulate the position such. Unlike the bubble chamber, there's one pop per interaction, so no trails, but it can be tuned to very specific energy ranges, like those expected for the neutralinos, while tuning out most ionizing background radiation.
I'm just an RA, though, so I'll be doing grunt work with the data. If I find dark matter, it's my profs who win the Nobel.

Overclocked

Thu Nov 22 2007, 02:35AM

Registered Member #1056 Joined: Thu Oct 11 2007, 11:15PM
Location: CT, USA
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Student Going for an Associates in Electronics Engineering.

I also have a part time Job doing Polyurethane Injection Molding for Wire Harness's that go on military vehicles.

Tom540

Thu Nov 22 2007, 03:07AM

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I guess I'm going to have to re post since I have another new job.
I recently went back to working for Elgar which was bought out by Xantrex and I'm now doing PCB layout instead of engineering tech stuff like all my past jobs. We make beefy power supplies and I just finished doing a layout for a prototype 1KW 3 Phase in, active PFC, 900VDC power supply. Supposedly it's ground breaking, lol.

Will

Thu Nov 22 2007, 07:31AM

Registered Member #57 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:28AM
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 27

Currently working at Quality Systems Integrated Corporation as a test 'operator': a technician with less pay. We test all sort of things from Aerospace to comms to computing modules.

Quality Systems

Working towards entrepreneurial goals as well, but that takes time and money, and both are in short supply...

Very interesting to hear you work with the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System(J-STARS), Dave M, as I used to work for Cubic Defense Applications were I worked on various components of that program.

CDA J-STARS

-Will

rp181

Mon Nov 26 2007, 03:44AM

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part time im an alien ambassador for earth, and the rest of the time i go to school (human).

Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Wed Dec 19 2007, 06:48AM

Registered Member #135 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
Location: Anywhere is fine
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Wellp, I just had my robotics final and if all goes well, I will survive with a C. If not, I don't graduate, I lost my job with Northrop, and I'll be homeless in 3 months. So I'm going to pray until the grades come in.

Everyone used to say being hired before you graduate is such a blessing because you already have the job. I think the reality is quite the opposite. It's hard to deal with being teased for 6 months not knowing if they want you while they process your background investigation, consumer reports, security clearance, etc. And then have to deal with a final along with a lot of other thoughts at the same time. I think finals are hard enough without the possibility of loosing the future one might have had.

But... stiff upper lip and all that rubbish, its an Engineer's burdon.

Dr. Drone

Wed Dec 19 2007, 05:27PM

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Nik

Wed Dec 19 2007, 11:06PM

Registered Member #53 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 638

I moved up a notch. Ive been working on an office building since the end of summer (electrical). Everything from main service installation (that is a huge xfmr) down to troubleshooting a shorted circuit. The building has some weird features like all the neutral wires have to be doubled up and there is a 100tonn generator that can power the whole building if there is a power outage.

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