Week 5

Hey y'all, sorry my week 5 post is terribly late, but better late than never, I suppose.  Anyway, I'm really enjoy the Atlanta area and GT thus far, exploring the city and greater Atlanta area has been a lot of fun.  I've done some less tourist-y things, along with some of the more "must hit" kind of tourist things, like the Aquarium and the High Museum of Art (which had a pretty stellar dream car exhibit, if nothing else as I don't quite get modern art).  I've gone to a few of the outdoor festivals in the area, along with some Georgia Tech-run things, like a performance of The 39 Steps which was well done.  So yeah, so far I'd say exploring the area has been going pretty well.

Hope everyone else is having a good summer.

- Tanya

Week 5 - Random Stuff

My Project

The free piston engine I'm working with is very interesting and cool to me. The way the piston pairs work and the capabilities of this engine intrigue me very much. However, the specific spot in research we have come to is a little repetitive and less intriguing. I have found myself often manipulation test data processing in matlab, and I believe this will continue as we proceed with more test data to determine the system's optimal settings. I do see the importance in this process though and am excited to help out!

The 4th of July

On another note, the 4th was great! Hope everyone had a good one too. Some friends and I got a party bus out to Lake Minnetonka, where we took a couple boats out to lake Minnetonka for the day. There were some bruises and headaches, but overall a successful 4th!

Week 5 Post (Late)

Hey everybody,

I know this is technically week 6, but seeing as how I forgot to post for week 5 I am taking care of that now. Since this is a open blog topic I am going to talk about brunch. So you all may remember that I am from Wisconsin and am doing research at MSOE. While I have been to Milwaukee plenty of times in my life, I have never lived here. After living here for over a month I can safely say that this city is obsessed with brunch. Literally every bar, restaurant, and food eatery serves brunch, and I love it! I personally believe that breakfast food is the best food ever. I would eat breakfast for every meal if I could. As you can imagine this brunch seen is right up my alley. So if any of you every want to get brunch with me I'll be in Milwaukee until August 8th! 

I dedicate this post to Jonathan. I hope that you are enjoying the humid heat of the South. I also hope that you are not spending all of your time indoors. 

- Don

My 4th of July Wknd

Hey Hey Hey,


I have yet to upload any of our photos taken as a whole but trust me they are coming.lol.  Since this is kind of a less formal blog this week i decided that it would be kind of appropriate to use (LOL) in at least one sentence.lol. But last weekend, 4th of July wknd, I was fortunate enough to travel back to home( ATL).  This was only my second time being home since school ended at the begining of May.  Although I am not allowed to stay home for more than a weekend due to work and being in school I did not think I would have that much fun.  Little to my surprise, I DID!!!! It was soooooo great as always to be around and spend time with my family but not even that I was able to see friends that I haven't seen all year.  We went to the city and went to a few parties but laying in my own bed was probably THE most exciting thing.lol.  This summer has been AWwSOME! I have met soo many new people and traveled a few places that have brought me extreme joy.  As this summer continues I would like to go on more adventures and of course learn new things! "A brain is a terrible thing to waste!"


Peace, Love and Happiness,


Kiffinae Sanders

Week 5

G'day all, better late then never as they say.

My situation is different then many of you, I am 29 and married and this is the second summer I have spent away from my wife and dogs. I wanted to share the importance of having someone in your life who will support you no matter what difficulties that your desires may bring. My wife has stood by me through my bachelors as I stood beside her in law school, and let me say there is nothing more wonderful in life than facing difficulty with someone you care about and who cares about you. Sappy, yes, but I dont think anyone will disagree with me.

Tim

Summer colds are no fun

In the spirit of my summer sinus sickness, you're invited to relax, recuperate and take the week off from blogging!   If you've missed any posts, this is a good time to catch up! 

We're taking inventory of your submissions.  As a reminder -- those who complete 90% of the assigned blog posts are eligible for a $25 Amazon e-gift card!!

Alyssa

After a long weekend back at it!

Allllright everyone! I'm back here at the University of Minnesota after a long much needed weekend. So an update on how things are going with my research. Everything has been extremely hands on which is the way I like it. My PhD mentor Biswa and I will be working on putting together our Hydrostatic Transmission (HST) finally. Think of it as big legos, we have all the pieces, now just need to assemble everything together. I have successfully identified all the sensors we will be using in our HST and now creating a system of how to implement it to get realtime results. I'm solely in charge for the data of this project. After that we will turn to our good friend Matlab / Simulink to see ideally the results we should get before we turn it live. Here is a picture of what we are working with, as you can probably imagine the pumps/motors are HUGE in size. Comparing to Faith whose doing the Bio-Engineering research, one of our pumps is easily the size of her entire project.