Going back to school... Options

[Spectatrix]

... is pretty interesting, but stressful too!

I'm in ME, but I'm learning a lot about circuits this semester. I'm taking a graduate mechatronics course and TA'ing the undergrad mechatronics lab, so I'm finally learning circuit design (hip hip hooray!). Also learning about bond graphs (something I NEVER heard about at Tech) and energy methods for modeling physical systems across energy domains.

Research-wise, I'm working on design & control of off-shore wind turbines. Neat stuff.

What is everyone else up to, whether school or work or personal projects?

[Dogmeat]

I'd been hittin learning network pipeline modeling and compession theory and operation pretty hard the last year, so starting this month I've been concentrating a lot more on trying to gain a fundamental understanding of process engineering in general, but with emphasis on hydrocarbon phase behaviour.

I've come to the realization that I desparatley wish I was smart enough to understand the SRK equations of state well enough to write my own Excell-based toolkit for use in predicting hydrocarbon phase behaviour.

I have however, at least, come to the conclusion that this type of thing is typically something that entire industries invest millions upon millions of dollars in developing, so I guess I shouldn't feel bad I haven't revolutionized the world yet.

With that said, after having spent 3 years in the "real" engineering world, I really wish I could afford to go back to graduate school and then on to a doctoral degree specifically studying hydrocabon phase behaviour and then subsequently developing an open-source model of such in addition to the current SRK model that would essentially be free to use for all and could thus be incorpoated into multi-phase modeling of any type of hydrocarbon system.

Real life is fucking hard in other words