-12degF according to my computer!!
15 December 2008
08 December 2008
Dr. G's Holiday Party and Team Bonding
Dr. G, my Aircraft Design professor, hosts an annual holiday party for her students. She is an awesome teacher! She also serves on the Advisory Board for Senior Projects. The main motivation behind her holiday party is to showcase her airplane Christmas ornament collection. This year, the collection peaked at 344 ornaments...she and her husband put up three trees every year to house them all.
Her house was filled with edible treats and airplanes!! What a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
A close-up to give you an idea how detailed some of these ornaments are: a B-2 Spirit Bomber
Tree #1
Tree #2 with the three girls that are in Aircraft Design (me, Shivali, and Leah)
Tree #3 with all of the students at the party, plus Dr. G
After Dr. G's holiday party, my senior projects team and I had a celebratory dinner at Mom and Dad's to celebrate a CDR well-done. It was the usual feast, and I think some people were a little overwhelmed.
The dinner
Round two
The team (minus Scott who couldn't make it), absolutely stuffed...
Her house was filled with edible treats and airplanes!! What a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
A close-up to give you an idea how detailed some of these ornaments are: a B-2 Spirit Bomber
Tree #1
Tree #2 with the three girls that are in Aircraft Design (me, Shivali, and Leah)
Tree #3 with all of the students at the party, plus Dr. G
After Dr. G's holiday party, my senior projects team and I had a celebratory dinner at Mom and Dad's to celebrate a CDR well-done. It was the usual feast, and I think some people were a little overwhelmed.
The dinner
Round two
The team (minus Scott who couldn't make it), absolutely stuffed...
01 December 2008
Thanksgiving Break
It was a good week to see family and enjoy not going to classes. I still spent plenty of time in the Engineering Center -- our Critical Design Review is this week, and it is our biggest deadline yet! Time for the professors to approve our design and give us the go-ahead for the spring.
We did some really cool vibration testing of our deployment system...without boring everybody, I'll just post some photos and videos. We used a high-speed camera to get hundreds of frames per second, but I don't have those videos right now...I'll post them when I get them.
We ran it through a range of frequencies to make sure our linear actuator still pulled.
Despite all the school work, I did go home for two days. We had Thanksgiving dinner early because of Sam's work schedule. I should have taken a picture of the feast, but instead, I just snagged a picture of some visiting pups!
We did some really cool vibration testing of our deployment system...without boring everybody, I'll just post some photos and videos. We used a high-speed camera to get hundreds of frames per second, but I don't have those videos right now...I'll post them when I get them.
We ran it through a range of frequencies to make sure our linear actuator still pulled.
Despite all the school work, I did go home for two days. We had Thanksgiving dinner early because of Sam's work schedule. I should have taken a picture of the feast, but instead, I just snagged a picture of some visiting pups!
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