Signs of things ahead
Saturday, August 26, 2006
A funny story as told by road signs. :LOL:
Uni has started, first week has gone by and the reports are in.
PSY 240 (Social Psych): Looks good, havent really started any course material yet but I believe it will overlap with the social psy course I took in AUS so that should be good news...yea right :P.
ECE 369 (Discrete Math): Ok the prof is a crazy mofo with even crazier grading policies and homework submission policies. I've had one lecture with actual coursework and everything, I repeat everything just flew over my head. The course seems to be geared towards programming so I just might have dug mself a deep hole here. Pray for me! :(
ECE 495V (Vertically Integrated Projects): Im in a team called E-Trans(portation). Our teams goal is to allow cell phone users with upto date traffic reports and images from intersections around the campus. This is useful during times of football games. We will work with major carriers and in built traffic sensing technology to supply the data and will also be responible for using a van loaded with tech gadgets to check the roads for potholes and other hinderances and notify the correct authority. Im more towards the web applications side which means I will be helping out in making the backend of the cell phone pages. The course seems interesting but I will have to learn some MySQL and PHP (web programming languages) to be competent enough. I think I might enjoy this course...still pray for me ;).
ECE 402 (Senior Design Project): Ahh, the big one at last. The project is very much like the one given to students in the previous semsters but with added challenges. A team is supposed to build a system which can correctly identify 3 cubes made of steel , aluminum and plastic and sort them accordingly. Also if the cube is aluminum it has be detected for cracks. All this is done in a non contact manner and is video controlled. One interesting aspect is the hacking of a black and white video signal to make it display a specific color for each material on the test display. Involves digital signal processing and what not. It seems intimidating right now but if the alumni are to be believed it gets interesting to the point of obsession. But you can still pray for me :D
Well thats about all, hopefully I *will* graduate this semester (just scared about that math course, damnit).
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PSY 240: Let's hope what McKee taught you stayed with you.
ECE 369: I'm done with math courses, for now, or so I think. Actually, I like math, but for some reason, it doesn't like me.
ECE 495V: (BTW, is there an ECE 495H?) Sounds interesting, and you'll have a Mystery Machine of your own!
ECE 402: Do the testing in a hot place, really hot place. Then, see how fast the things melt, and base your classification on that (don't you just love destructive testing?)
That last one's a bit unnerving to read about.. how the hell do you identify it without making contact with it?! Maybe sound would work?
my god....sounds like a tough semester...if i were unlazy enough to actually pray, i would for you....but i'll show some sympathy and others of the sort...good luck.