Week One

Hey guys,

It was great to meet everyone last week at Purdue and I hope everyone is having a good first week at your REU locations.  The bootcamp was informative and it was great to meet everyone, Purdue faculty & grad students included.  All of the Purdue professors, post-grads, and grad students did a great job covering the material.  It was awesome to see current Ph.D. work that is being done on the campus to give a better idea of what Fluid Power covers.  The bootcamp helped to expand upon the prior knowledge of Fluids that I had and provide a non-theoretical basis for the Fluids knowledge I'd already had.

The first week at GT has been good, a lot of reading of background documents (primers, research status updates, manuals, etc.) in preparation to begin my portion of the Hydraulic Pressure Energy Harvesting (HPEH as everyone here calls it).  All of the professors and grad students I've met here have been helpful and informative, as has the person who was previously working on the portion of the project that I'll be taking over for the summer.  It's also consisted of re-acquainting myself with C coding language and attempting to not be horrific at the language.

I'm really looking forward to the summer in Atlanta, even though the humidity is not something I'm used to at all, and being involved with the HPEH project.

- Tanya.