I find it amusing that guests come to the hop. wtf do they think?

They were probably searching the web for pancakes.

Mmmm pancakes. I'm hungry.

w00t, my employer is now contributing an additional 50% for my RRSP this year (was 25% for 2006) and they also increased the pay-out for short-term and long-term disability (66% and 70% of my average wages respectively) and my life insurance.

hope you don't need the life insurance

I find it amusing that guests come to the hop. wtf do they think?

They were probably searching the web for pancakes.

*posts from a hotel in Costa Mesa...

Not far from the Tustin IHOP. Had dinner at Opah right next door tonight, my colleagues got a laugh out of me calling the IHOP the international house of poo

Some guys on my floor have gone to IhoP at 3am before... The nearest Ihop is an hour away though though... they didn't get back till like 5am.

I have been in hundreds of companies and can tell you that there are types like you having fun in engineering. I surely can't say the same for a lot of desk jobs. Keep your head up and start to look for industries that you have an interest in. Something will fall in your lap.

Thanks Sean!

Currently there is a shortage of NVH engineers that actually understand frequency analysis. Not a bad route considering your interests.

Some guys on my floor have gone to IhoP at 3am before... The nearest Ihop is an hour away though though... they didn't get back till like 5am.

Night is still young at 5am in college, perhaps not so in the real world though.

I have been in hundreds of companies and can tell you that there are types like you having fun in engineering. I surely can't say the same for a lot of desk jobs. Keep your head up and start to look for industries that you have an interest in. Something will fall in your lap.

Thanks Sean!

Currently there is a shortage of NVH engineers that actually understand frequency analysis. Not a bad route considering your interests.

Whats NVH stand for?

*edit* Noise Vibrations and Harmonics???

Once it reaches about 3-4am I'm pretty well done for the night.

close, harshness. Buzz word in the industry, huge bi-yearly conference coming up in Chicago May 15-17th. Pretty much the best in microphones, accelerometers, analyzers, software, modelling, data acquisition, and recording will be there. All for industrial applications though and not home use (ie butt ass expensive and accurate). I will be there working the show. Sort of my adult playground.

T)_OP

Once it reaches about 3-4am I'm pretty well done for the night.

I still break that but my body doesn't recover like it used to.

close, harshness. Buzz word in the industry, huge bi-yearly conference coming up in Chicago May 15-17th. Pretty much the best in microphones, accelerometers, analyzers, software, modelling, data acquisition, and recording will be there. All for industrial applications though and not home use (ie butt ass expensive and accurate). I will be there working the show. Sort of my adult playground.

Cool stuff, what kind of degree/specialization stuff does one need to look into that area?

Engineering with a focus on acoustics or of course acoustics itself works. Either Mech or Civil, but I'd choose Mech anyday. There are a lot of Physicists and Mathematicians as well.

Theres a couple electroacoustics classes here in the EE dept., but no acoustis/physics related classes, I've already checked into that.

Conference

http://www.sae.org/events/nvc/

Tech Sessions (I lucked out and don't have to give a talk )

http://www.sae.org/servlets/techSession?EV...=SESSION_MATRIX

List of exhibitors:

http://www.sae.org/servlets/vsearch?Search...3&Company=*

Tons of cool stuff, by far the most important event in the NVH world. Only happens every other year.

Theres a couple electroacoustics classes here in the EE dept., but no acoustis/physics related classes, I've already checked into that.

Anything with frequency based math/measurements will help. My whole life is spent in Fast Fourier Transform and Frequency analysis land. Cool stuff though.

Theres a couple electroacoustics classes here in the EE dept., but no acoustis/physics related classes, I've already checked into that.

Anything with frequency based math/measurements will help. My whole life is spent in Fast Fourier Transform and Frequency analysis land. Cool stuff though.

I'll look into that this week.

I'm heading to bed, thanks for the info!

anytime. if you want any specifics on any companies doing anything like that feel free to ask.

I am in bed and have been for a couple hours. This is cool off time, but sleep perhaps is in order.

interesting

Very.........

J

Very.........

J

lol...indeed

yes quite