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normalguy922
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Name: Kevin
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Birthday: 9/22/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Lets see... LCA is always first, I play guitar/write music when I can, ski in the winter, golf and disc golf in the warmer months, and lift weights in my free time. Maybe I'll do more stuff if I get some money.
Expertise: Well, I'm studying at Worcester Polytech... hopefully I'll graduate in a couple years with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Aerospace.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  normalguy922
Member Since:
1/6/2004
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| This just about sums up college.
crystal 22004: i love learning
crystal 22004: ahh i just don't like doing the work sometimes. lol.
Yep.
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| So I'm averaging like one update every 3 weeks... oh well. Went
to my first sox game of the 2005 season tonight and it was
alright. They lost, like they usually do whenever I go to a game,
but there was still some good offense. Damon had a great night,
should help me out in my fantasy league, and v-tek had a sweet homer
over the monster. Some guy in the ninth inning stripped off his
shirt, hopped the left field fence, and started running across the
field too. What made this hilarious is that the guy weighed at
least 350 pounds and had huge man-boobs floppin alllllll over the
place. So that got a pretty big ovation from the fans that were
still there. Anyway, I'll probably try and hit up a game on
wednesday this week too, maybe get some standing room tickets.
Oh, another weird thing happened today too... when I was down in Quincy
with my group taking some pictures of the schools I worked at this past
term, some paranoid lady wrote down the license plate of the car we
were in and reported it to the police. So they track the number
and call my friend's dad trying to figure out what was going on.
Then my friend had to deal with calling our sponsor who is the head of
the DPW in Quincy, and try to sort everything out. But yeah,
interesting to say the least.
I'll try and find some pictures to put up here eventually. I am off for now. Lata.
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| Well, I got my MQP for next year (it's a graduation requirement for
those of you who don't go to WPI). Here's the basic overview,
sounds pretty cool I guess even though it wasn't my first choice.
Anyway, at least I'll be working with a grad student who knows what's
going on.
DESIGN AND TESTING OF A LARGE FLEXIBLE SPACE STRUCTURE
Students will design and build a scaled down version of a large
flexible space panel. The choice, number and placement of the sensing
and actuating devices (accelerometers and piezoceramic patches) will be
integrated in the early design stages. This MQP project is part of an
ongoing NSF-supported research and students will work closely with the
graduate student who is currently working on the numerical predictions
for the panel dimensions and location of sensors and actuators. The
goals of this project are to (i) build a frame for an Aluminum thin
plate and incorporate the sensors and actuators on the plate, (ii) test
the vibration characteristics of the panel simulating various operating
conditions in space, using a dSPACE data acquisition and control
system. This project fulfills a student's Capstone Design requirement.
Yep, the culmination of 4 years of classes. Doesn't really seem too impressive does it.
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| Heh.... no update in almost a month... I've been in Boston for a couple
weeks so far, and things are going pretty well. I work
monday-thursday 9-5 and then have a 3 day weekend for the most part,
since fridays only consist of a few hours of presentations. It
hasnt really been too exciting to be here, the apartments are pretty
nice and theres plenty of things to do around the city, but it's not
too fun to be 20 without an ID =( Got some sox
tickets for the 25th of april though, can't wait for that. I'll
probly go to a few more games and get standing room tickets too.
Other than that, not too much else going on, I'm already looking
forward to finishing up this whole project and getting home for the
summer.
Hope you all had a good Easter weekend. Later.
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| I got a job for the summer!
I will be working at the fluid dynamics lab at WPI for June and July,
so I will get to live in Worcester for the summer too. Plus I
signed the lease for an apartment the other day and I can move in at
the end of May. Things should work out pretty good I think, and
the experience I get from this internship should really help me out
next year when I graduate. One less thing for me to worry about
now.
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