Semana cinco! Uno mas...
This week has been a combination of all sorts of lovely events. Missing my last project/team. Searching for a new. Finding and participating my new one. My cousin coming to visit SF for the weekend from Seattle. Learning and basically getting ALL of my questions answered about flight traffic control and weather conditions relating. And trust me I have a ton of questions. Trying to get a joke about dartmouth or engineering or helicopters (if you have one PLEASE tell me, it's a requirement of this internship, apparently).
Alright now I will go more in depth. The new work I am doing required a bit of catching up and understanding. Reading basically. Multiple tests were run on the UH60 Blackhawk helicopter (a.k.a. what the military uses) to try and reduce vibration and other problems on the rotors and blades. This gets more complicated but I will not bore you. Now that they have SO much data on the computer, they need to sort it and make sense of it. That's where I come in. I am working with numbers and a computer program. This program, MATLAB, is essential to engineers so I am very glad to be learning it now. In MATLAB, I am working with QuickPlot which is a program the interns right before me created. Nonetheless, that is my current project. Not only has the work consuming, the other people are extremely nice. They make sure I have something to do (that can't always be a good thing...), understand and learn from what i am doing, have someone to eat lunch with (more important that you think), and have a funny joke. I guess it is a requirement of every intern to tell one before they leave so I am working intently on that. And I am very excited to show off my acquired skills of public transit and the city to my cousin who is visiting san francisco for the first time this weekend! And then I went this meeting/seminar/discussion thing and talked to two gentlemen that work with the FAA and who were extremely knowledgeable. I talked to them one on one for about thirty minutes each and was fascinated the entire time. Something is wrong with that picture I think. But I did thoroughly enjoy it and that's what matters. Very intriguing!
Thats all for now, almost all for this internship and that means summer too! I only have one week left. WOW! I can't believe I am almost done. I am going to miss Ames, everyone out here, and of course the weather! This calls for a trip to the NASA store for a, pride, t-shirt purchase.
Alright now I will go more in depth. The new work I am doing required a bit of catching up and understanding. Reading basically. Multiple tests were run on the UH60 Blackhawk helicopter (a.k.a. what the military uses) to try and reduce vibration and other problems on the rotors and blades. This gets more complicated but I will not bore you. Now that they have SO much data on the computer, they need to sort it and make sense of it. That's where I come in. I am working with numbers and a computer program. This program, MATLAB, is essential to engineers so I am very glad to be learning it now. In MATLAB, I am working with QuickPlot which is a program the interns right before me created. Nonetheless, that is my current project. Not only has the work consuming, the other people are extremely nice. They make sure I have something to do (that can't always be a good thing...), understand and learn from what i am doing, have someone to eat lunch with (more important that you think), and have a funny joke. I guess it is a requirement of every intern to tell one before they leave so I am working intently on that. And I am very excited to show off my acquired skills of public transit and the city to my cousin who is visiting san francisco for the first time this weekend! And then I went this meeting/seminar/discussion thing and talked to two gentlemen that work with the FAA and who were extremely knowledgeable. I talked to them one on one for about thirty minutes each and was fascinated the entire time. Something is wrong with that picture I think. But I did thoroughly enjoy it and that's what matters. Very intriguing!
Thats all for now, almost all for this internship and that means summer too! I only have one week left. WOW! I can't believe I am almost done. I am going to miss Ames, everyone out here, and of course the weather! This calls for a trip to the NASA store for a, pride, t-shirt purchase.
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