>>4120

> it's a combination of Mech engineering and Electronics engineering

that was easy

>>4120

robots and shit

>>4121
"although i want to know more"

>>4120

Is it a 2 or 4 year course? I took mechatronics, it was a 2 year course so my experience may be different from yours but it was basically designed to as a pre-engineering course without a lot of math, with the intended outcome being that you'd program and maintain robots and stuff.

>>4124
Specifically industrial robotics. Things like the assemblers/handlers in (the robots car factories, or manufacturing robotics)

>>4108

lol, you couldn't be more off.

I have an EE degree from Alabama.

Bostonian here. This thread is a can of butthurt.
I agree with L.Fatbottom though in the initial premise. It is the natural order of things. Our education will improve towards the "ideal" progressively. Likely this will involve a highly efficient method of parceling and clumping information inforgraphically. (@self Durr)

I've always been pissed that mathematics is taught without the history behind it, thankfully I ran across S.Hawkings "God created the integers" which answered most of my questions. And then a whole bunch of answers I have no clue how to formulate the questions to.

That aside, I believe this is indicative of the ever present frustration and discontent with a system we have very little real ability to change.
This problem will persist until a) the problems solve themselves, or b) Someone fixes it. I figure reality is somewhere inbetween a-b where measures are taken to improve it but overall it gets a lazy-ass seal of approval slapped on it and life goes on.

>>4111

I figure some bright engineers will either make an online community with easy to use tools to teach other engineers. Maybe like a learningpedia, where people can easily make multimedia lessons.

Or maybe a third party company will create lessons that people can buy.

Then tenured professors will just buy subscriptions or make students subscribe or whatever and life will go on.

> why do we NEVER teach the history of engineering?

We do. The history of engineering is the history of humanity so we let the history department teach it. And if I want to learn the history of engineering, that's where I'll go.

> Engineering might be the only field in college that teaches zero history.

Because engineering is all about what we use now and what we're developing now.

>>4117

>>We do. The history of engineering is the history of humanity so we let the history department teach it. And if I want to learn the history of engineering, that's where I'll go.

L O L

>Because engineering is all about what we use now and what we're developing now.

L O L

>>3296
also, the 3rd person is for the cover letter? sounds a bit weird, any reason why it works better?

>>3299

When you are looking at a stack of resumes that all say I everywhere, it's easy to forget about who is who. Stating your name and referring to yourself in the third helps me follow things better and more easily

Also this is why format is important, a little splash of color and some style stands out in a stack of drab text.

You resume is supposed to get my attention and make me want to hire you. Anything that doesn't make you stand out in a positive light or makes you noticeable should be revised and worked on

Frankly I wouldn't recommend just showing up to the place unannounced, you want to make sure someone in a hiring and influential person knows you are coming and going to such lengths. You'll also save time, I'm sure a lot of places in Alberta have stacks of local college kids looking

But at the same time, yes...eventually you are going to need to move to those areas. Even if you can't get what you want, you need to be around when something does open up

>>3300
thanks for the advice, I did work on the style to make it unique (spent like a full day lol).
Now in terms of cover letters, any ideas on how to stand out aside from the third person part? How far can you bend from the really professional standard format language yet not go out of line?

>>3297

>Also uf you screw up the handshake you screw up everything.

are you in a frat?

>>3305

pic related

Everyone in the West has this shit shoved down our throat by the media that non-Westerns are better than us. That professor is just being stupid.

Gotta wonder what "engineering school" that was where the instructor doesn't understand the concept of selection bias.

the only form of Perpetual motion MIGHT be existence itself. Assuming that the theories of space both contracting and expanding are true.

Otherwise, even all the energy we know of will eventually spread out and be mostly useless. Expanding into a cold nothing.


Perpetual motion, on a human scale, even if achieved would be useless. It would be a bit of kinetic energy with NOTHING acting upon it. The second you try to get it to do anything practical, energy would be removed from it and it would slow down and eventually stop.

>>4073 doesn't know what TANSTAAFL means.

>Perpetual motion, is it possible?

not in reality

>has it been done?

it's impossible

>why don't we have free energy yet?

because that's impossible even in theory

>am i asking the wrong questions?

yes, you should be asking what is a good source for amateurs who want to learn basic physics without going to college.

Learn how to apply Heaviside's original equation
Simply put, you can withdraw energy from the vacuum effortlessly and in huge quantities.

>>4075

> The bullshit is out there,

fixed

>>4092

I'm Scottish.

>How many years

4 for BEng (Hons), 5 for MEng (Hons) [an advanced undergraduated degree, not a postgrad degree]. MSces are available in various specialisations, these take 1 year and are not free. Undergrad education is free for Scots and EU students, along with guaranteed low-interest loans if required.

>What and how

The US system of standardised courses (Calc 1, 2, 3; Diff Eq 1 etc.) doesn't exist here. If you're studying maths, then your first year level maths courses are 2 all-encompassing courses which take up the whole academic year, and cannot be subdivided. Engineers take similar engineering maths courses, and the same applies for other parts of the course.

>How much work

This is difficult to quantify, it depends on your learning mode. A couple of hours per night, if you split up your homework well, perhaps.

>Graduation work

I guess you mean what type of thesis/dissertation is required. All honours students (most people do honours) must complete a dissertation of c. 10,000 - 20,000 words, which usually takes place between the penultimate and final years of the course.

>>4094

Forgot to mention: my examples are not representative of every Scottish universities, as they all do things differently, e.g. marking schemes differ vastly between universities, course content varies. I went to a mediaeval university, and the old universities tend to do things their own way.

>>3969
Networking, dude. All it takes is for someone who's already in the industry to put in a good word for you, and you'll have a chance. That goes for most fields.

>>3973
Civil is a bit different considering the massive downturn in '08 that put a lot of guys with experience out of work. Networking totally helps though, don't get me wrong...but it's next to impossible these days to do civil without having to do some inspector/tech work (unless you have an amazing resource to recommend you)

>>3969
its called a graduate position, made especially for new graduates, most companies have them

it helps to do lots of internships
at my university, all engineers are forced to get 2 years of internship experience before graduation

>>3989

forced? We had the option but were never forced. Where the fuck do you live? China?

>>4054

Not to mention classes are less likely to ban it because of the calculus capabilities.

>>4054

Bullshit the 83 can do what the 89 does. Sounds like you have barely used an 89 (or 83), let alone know how capable they are if you're familiar with them

they both have places to hide notes

I use a TI-83. I've had this one for at least 7 years, and its still going! Sometimes the screen doesn't work or displays strange symbols, so i just whack it on the desk a couple times and it works again. I wish everything could be fixed like that...

But yeah, anyone have some guides on how to get full functionality out of your calculator?

>>4070

Read the manual

>>4024
Buy a Blu Ray Laser and hook it up to a 9 volt battery. Maximum PC has a guide on how to make a faser using this same concept but a Blu Ray laser can also burn hot enough to light a cig/joint so find that guide and follow the same concept only don't use the fasper case. (Or do because that would be badass.)

Instead of an electric lighter, have you considered a fire piston? They use no fuel and operate in wet weather and and are dead simple to make.

I would think a laser might be too dangerous to use in such proximity to your face, especially if using for pot at all.

Bowls could potentially reflect a laser, and while I'm not a laser expert at all, I see this as dangerous, especially since it will likely need to be used close to one's face, even if tobacco/cigs.
Add to that the danger of using lasers capable of burning while under an altered state of mind and it's not really suitable.

I'm looking up videos on these fire pistons, and while they seem great for survival uses, would they really be all that great for smoking?
I've never used one so I'm not sure how easily you'd be able to keep a bowl going or start a cig with it, and how do they perform in wind?

OP's original idea of a super hot wire seems like the most suited for smoking.

>>4076

> would they really be all that great for smoking?

Yes.

> how do they perform in wind?

They work great in still air. They work even better in wind.

>>4076
good point, to light a joint with a laser you basicaly need to point it at your eyes

Psychonautic engineering

>>4045

god I wish that was a real thing

pan-electromechanical astronautical conservation engineering.

But good luck finding a school with that major

>>4071
Also known as mechatronics.

>>4068
i wish god were real too

>>4037
you'd burn the skin with the inside raw.

1/10 for the effort


The fastest way would be to utilize different wavelength as well as convection heating.
A closed (dome) masonry grill will probably be the best compromise as it provides convection and far infrared.

If you are fancy you can build a electrical infrared heating for near infrared as well.
And if you are crazy you can build a microwave oven out of the grill. I have a microwave with a integrated grill and it makes things well pretty fast.

The problem with microwaves is you'd have to use the right amount of power, possibly in a specialized curve, utilize the different wavelengths when they are needed. My microwave oven doesn't do this good enough to be actually usable so you'd have to come up with alot of testing and try/error to get it right.

>>4036
Replace the stick with a heatpipe, the heatpipe will conduct a large amount of heat into the centre of the meat cooking it faster.

enjoy your congestive heart failure

>>4037

Barbecue is fundamentally based on slow heat. All you're doing is searing the meat

The best way is to buy a trivection oven. It is an oven with dry heat, a fan for convection, and microwaves specially focused.

> How quickly will the lamb cook?

The whole point of roasting like this is it's done slowly. Heat needs time to travel through the meat without burning the outside and leaving the insides raw.

The real difficult task is getting the lamb to cook evenly. unless you have the meat very well balanced it's going to want to turn quickly through half a rotation and slowly through the other half. In ancient times they had peasants called turnbrooches whose whole skill was turning a roast at an even speed for hours on end. These days a motor controller with an encoder should suffice.

>>4009

Oh and back to OPs question, super powerful weapons like nukes assure peace in a region due to the mutual destruction principal. You're not going to find a country willing to play that game (who also has the resources) and any leader with power knows this. Only a country like North Korea, who has little to lose as their nation crumbles away for other reasons, would actually consider something so silly. Iran is a maybe. The clerics that run the theocracy are crazy enough, but the executive leaders aren't about to risk their asses for something so pointless

>>4010
I have always wanted to build such a thing. But then again I am the kind who thinks it would be magical to watch the world burn and to see what true people are like.

>>3921
I would do something with the Earth's core like drilling to it at a remote location then doing something to mess with it/explode it/cool it and render the planet useless.

>>4055

You can't drill to the Earth's core.

>>4032

They are assholes, what do you expect? Go to a place like Somalia if you want to see no government and a destroyed infrastructure in a toxic place