Anyways, I"m just starting! :)
Saturday, September 6, 2014
starting off
So I'm taking a Mach!ning class this semester and it's been going well so far. This is the start of a piece we're making using the l@the. We had to grind our own high speed m!ll cutter and then insert it into the l@the and then work on the piece. It's a very fun class. Plus, there is a LOT to learn about gear and equipment used in m@nufacturing. It's also very precise to very small tolerances; prof said he's had eng!neering students who came to his class because they couldn't find a job because they didn't understand manufacturing, and people who just wanted general certification on this stuff. It's interesting, and the margin for error is enormously small. He was saying at one of his jobs, he had one person check his dimensions and if they disagreed once to the .002 of a margin and he was wrong, you'd be put on probation for a month (meaning the other person would check every single measurement). If that mistake was made again, you'd be fired. Interesting world. A lot of the high precision stuff is for Aer0space and the Medic@l field, where if you made a margin of error large enough, a part wouldn't move and it would stop blood flow or something fatal like that. So there can be no errors. One place he said had an error rate of .5 percent. That was how high the standard was. Craziness!
Anyways, I"m just starting! :)
Anyways, I"m just starting! :)
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I like teachers/classes that hold their students to higher standard. It makes more sense to me to have the class replicate what is acceptable in the real world, rather than coddle your students and then set them up for rude awakening once they leave the class. I respect that your instructor would, on the first day be like, Here is what's expected of you: you're either up to the task or not. No bullsh*tting your way through this one. Sounds like a great class!
ReplyDeleteI agree; he's amazing. Actually, everyone in the Eng!neering track is just great. I think it is because their students go on to places like C@ltech and whatnot, that they have to keep the standards high. I didn't expect that apparently the Math and Physics classes are the most difficult to get spots in, too. Apparently it's better to declare a major and they give you first preference. A LOT of those people need their pre-reqs, so it's tough to get into some of those classes. I was looking at a 'certain' school at their Gen Ed requirements and it was just watered down crap. The "math" was like "math for artists" or some BS. And I"m sure they're not taught by people who know their stuff, which is pathetic. If I take a certain level math class, I'd like to know that the credits transfer to most places , thank you very much!
ReplyDeleteI never fit in that way, because I'm exactly half art/ half science. I was in the science class in school, while doing art. So I'm constantly struggling to find a balance between both worlds.
I was having a convo with my parents about this; that I don't understand why art and science is so separate. Yes, in Arch, it tends to not be, but it is like they're two different worlds entirely. We just don't get it, either. It's like dichotomy.
One is to be taken seriously, the other is not? Why? One is supposed to lead to in demand jobs, the other is not? Why? And what happens if those lines are blurred? But that sort of discussion can only occur if we begin to address those kinds of things, which sadly, will probably never happen; at least not as long as a lot of schools have priority as money making organizations.
But what do I know...*back to basketweaving class I go* LOL.