Update!

[Karl Valten]

Dear god 800 new posts on the portal scares the hell out of me.

Anywho, a bit of an update as I just finished the GREs today. Will still be unavailable for a little bit as I get the new semester figured out.

GREs went very well. Verbal: 570 (around the 60th-70th percentile) not bad, but not great. Quantitative: 770 (around the 95th percentile) Fucking awesome! I'm figging happy with the results. Will hear back on the Analytical Writing section in about a week and a half.

Course work this semester: 19 Credits

Aeromechanics Laboratory
Fundamentals of Astrophysics
Linear Control Systems
Aerospace Vehicle Design (Cap-stone project)
Principles of Microeconomis

Senior design project if sweet. Will be working the Pioneer Aerospace to design an Isotenoid or Tension Cone (thing that slows spaceships down). It's a type of attached inflatable decelerator (fancy parachute-like thing) for future Mars missions.

This semester will be learning about the sucker and designing it given our constraints and mission parameters. Over winter break we kick off the design to Pioneer Aero and they build us a scale model. Spring Semester we test it in the wind tunnel at the university, analyze the data, and report on the aerodynamics of the AID.

Woot!

Peace out, will have to start reading threads to catch up.

[Zeven Ekkel]

Linear Control Systems. Eek, that class was no fun for me! :(

[Serena Laran]

Sounds like you're a busy busy boy! Hope everything is going well and will continue to do so. :):thumbup

[Crusader]

Linear Control Systems. Eek, that class was no fun for me! :(

Actually I enjoyed it a lot. Finished it with an A-. Once you get it all down to mathematics it is alot of fun. If you like to do mathematics...

[Karl Valten]

Looks like it'll mostly be Diff Eqs and State-Space from my understanding. I'm fairly decent with that kind of work.

Any pointers for that class?

[Crusader]

Basicly it will all come down to what you just mentioned. You should know your stability criterias and how you can distinguish them and you should know how to make a LaPlace- and a Z-Transformation but this stuff is easy if you are not afraid of doing some math.

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

Heh, engineers. Oh those halcyon years.

Whatever keeps you away from watching any football this year is probably healthy though.

[Zeven Ekkel]

Looks like it'll mostly be Diff Eqs and State-Space from my understanding. I'm fairly decent with that kind of work.

Any pointers for that class?

Yeah, that's the gist + what Crusader said. You should be fine :) I'm just not good with the math :(

[Karl Valten]

Basicly it will all come down to what you just mentioned. You should know your stability criterias and how you can distinguish them and you should know how to make a LaPlace- and a Z-Transformation but this stuff is easy if you are not afraid of doing some math.

Laplace is my friend.


Heh, engineers. Oh those halcyon years.

Whatever keeps you away from watching any football this year is probably healthy though.

Yeah....after watching that game against Middle Tennessee I decided that I'd rather just drink.

[Crusader]

Laplace is my friend.


Friends of Laplace are my friends as well. But this Fourier guy is one annoying SOB.