All 9 entries tagged Engineering

Final VLSI Assignment over

I have finally finished my 1.75CATS analog VLSI assignment which did take a fair bit of time. To be honest its been a good excercise of being given a toolkit to find a solution to a specified task. Turns out my silicon product will cost approx €28 (excl. overheads). Important lesson learnt are not to run metal under Resistor Diffusion.

Nathaniel Ho : 25 Feb 2007 19:29 |  Tags: Engineering Technology Work |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Boned

That was a bad end to a 3–exams in a 48–hr stint.

I have never been so badly prepared for an exam, that was caused by a combination of not being able to juggle all the 12 subjects for revision, so I attempted to revise for the last exam: Mechanics/Fluid Mechanics exam in one evening! After having my whole body and brain baked at 30degrees in the Panorama room in a hot afternoon.
It was too late, I didn't understand the stuff and I only slept about 2hrs from 4am to 6am before the exam. Oh well on to others.

Note to Barnaby, my mentees and any other 1st years. Make sure you do ALL the self study every week during weeks 1–20 in your 2nd year. Otherwise you will run out of time.

Nathaniel Ho : 08 Jun 2006 13:25 |  Tags: Engineering Revision |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

I've said it once and I'll say it again

Business [studies] is full of shitty lingo created by the pathetic losers (within an entity) who make up words and phrases, to use later on in board meetings in order to justify their meaningless existence.

Are you well confusified yet?

Nathaniel Ho : 06 Jun 2006 22:54 |  Tags: Engineering General Revision |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Guinea Pigs Revolt

Writing about web page http://www.rwgs.net/poll.php

FEAR ME! Grrrrrrr

I'm not usually one to moan. But after 2 years of being the Guinea Pig yeargroup in this new Engineering degree structure. We're angry. Beware of angry Guinea pigs. The course is still in its beta testing stage. Sometimes quite wishy washy.

We had a examples class with an incomprehendible lecturer told us F -all. And another lecturer posted PDF slides on such a huge piece of paper (size: A-minus-44?) that the text on it looks like a postage stamp. How the heck can we revise from that?

Today I even directed a first year to the place where he could find past papers. Something we have never, or will ever see in our 4 years at uni.

Not a good day for 2nd year engineers.

Nathaniel Ho : 18 May 2006 20:35 |  Tags: Engineering General |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Forgot the reason we're here

Dr Billson was right the other day. We're all preoccupied with passing exams, instead of just studying to be engineers.

Instead of learning everything for our own benefit. We want to know exactly which parts of the syllabus will be in the exam, the style of questions and how many marks we'll get. We've lost touch with the real reason we're here…

Nathaniel Ho : 18 May 2006 18:44 |  Tags: Career Engineering General |  Comments (8) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Go Live in a Tent and Eat Lentils™

Today I went to a lecture by specialist in the energy and environment industry, who give a good talk about the inherent problems in the world that goes beyond oil. Very interesting, once again I left one of these lectures, realising just how screwed we really are! There's the last 140 years left of oil, that will be prioritised for plastics and pharmaceuticals. No oil left to power my Aston Martin in future :(

The only solution to the fuel crisis is to do what is says in the title of this blog entry. Overall it was a very good way to revise for my energy module :P Don't try to fix the fuel crisis, embrace it!

Go Live in a Tent and Eat Lentils is an unregistered Trademark of Chris Payne Industries.

Nathaniel Ho : 05 May 2006 20:23 |  Tags: Energy Engineering Environment General |  Comments (10) |  Close comments |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem

Am I glad I don't do this course…

Goodluck Rachel! muhahahahahahaaha

Nathaniel Ho : 29 Apr 2006 21:28 |  Tags: Engineering General |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Go Green? Become a Caveman

Today I attended an Energy and Renewable Energy talk by an ex-pupil of Colin Oram. It was a very interesting talk on the current issues and problems we face. I think that CO2 is not all that bad, not compared to mercury (as Phil Purnell pointed out). But, I have come to the conclusion that there is no solution in this current world and lifestyles we live in. If you wanted a "sustainable" solution, even with you riding a bike, and living off lentils and water, that is not enough.

Your energy efficient light bulbs are full of harmful halogens. Your proposed LEDs have too much embodied energy. Your solar PVs and wind turbines have a huge carbon footprint in order to make them: so does that bike you ride. Your clothing IS the reason China is consuming so much fossil fuel. That single you bought by the latest one (s)hit wonder has solely caused THAT hole in the ozone layer (probably due to the horrible harmonics of the singer's crappy voice causing Ozone to turn into Oxygen).

The solution is, you have to trade in your TV, computers, PSP, phone, 12oz rump steaks, house for a dingy little cave and live like a proper stone age loser. And I don't ever see that happening. To sum up: we're doomed.

Nathaniel Ho : 07 Feb 2006 21:12 |  Tags: Engineering Environment Monkeys Technology |  Comments (18) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Eastcoast–Westcoast

Tradition has it that the Electronic Engineers will never understand why anyone would want to be a Civil Engineer, and they think the exactly the same thing about us.

Talking to Aunty May over lunch yesterday in London, she said that people normally think "the grass is greener on the other side, but if you think your own grass is greener, then you can't be doing too badly!"

Unfortunately Chris Payne has now after reading Craig's Soil Mechanics book, realised he's doing the wrong degree and wants to jump ship.

Nathaniel Ho : 06 Feb 2006 20:29 |  Tags: Career Engineering |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem