The Master Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 My view is "don't let it bother you". If you're this stroppy a month in, what's going to happen in three years time? I'm only "stroppy" about this thread; not my project. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Guid stuff, as long as you don't make the AI as brittle as yourself, I'd hate to see another HAL 9000 incident I'm doing MEMS manufacturing, using non silicon methods to produce microstructures from electrically, thermally and acoustically induced instabilities in polymers. Um...yes That sounds almost as complicated as a guy who was on the induction course I had to attend. His project aims to create concrete from coal ash 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I'm doing MEMS manufacturing, using non silicon methods to produce microstructures from electrically, thermally and acoustically induced instabilities in polymers. Wires, motherboards and miscellaneous other electronic paraphernalia to make some other shitty wee things ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbl Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I don't have one yet...But my proposal (written after getting the position, because there was no set project, as such) involves software agents and argumentation, equipping the former with human-like skills in the latter. I'm doing MEMS manufacturing, using non silicon methods to produce microstructures from electrically, thermally and acoustically induced instabilities in polymers. My title still changes from week to week, currently its something along the lines of: Two stage audiovisual speech enhancement, using audio only beamforming and visual GMM wiener filtering. For SCM to read: Its great. I love it! Everything is a-ok, my supervisor is great, did I mention that I love it? For everyone else: Words fail to convey the sheer horror, misery, and pain that this title disguises. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 My title still changes from week to week, currently its something along the lines of:Two stage audiovisual speech enhancement, using audio only beamforming and visual GMM wiener filtering. For SCM to read: Its great. I love it! Everything is a-ok, my supervisor is great, did I mention that I love it? For everyone else: Words fail to convey the sheer horror, misery, and pain that this title disguises. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 (edited) Wires, motherboards and miscellaneous other electronic paraphernalia to make some other shitty wee things ? Not quite, although my background is electrical engineering. MicroElectro-Mechanical Systems is my specialisation. Working on scales of 10^-6 metres to construct mechanical structures that can be integrated into electronic chips to form fully inegrated systems. MEMS have the advantage of operating under subtly different forces than their meso equivalents. Look up Trimmer's laws of scaling and you find that forces work differently on different scales, thus at micro level electrostatic forces scale down 1:1, whereas electormagnetic forces scale by a factor of 1/1,000,000. Thus electostatic attraction is more important on the micro scale, as is fluid surface tension. Volume and gravity are also less important. My particular field is in working on non silicon solutions to problems, since these have inherint limitations due primarily from their anisotropic etching characteristics. My own part of the project is based on a rig capable of setting up the necessary conditions for the process and monitoring it's progress, as well as improving upon some basic design considerations of the process, such as introducing Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) and new mask designs, as well as some limited modelling using the Schwarz Christoffel transformation to map the non uniform E-fields that primarily drive the process. Edited November 12, 2009 by renton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Not quite, although my background is electrical engineering.MicroElectro-Mechanical Systems is my specialisation. Working on scales of 10^-6 metres to construct mechanical structures that can be integrated into electronic chips to form fully inegrated systems. MEMS have the advantage of operating under subtly different forces than their meso equivalents. Look up Trimmer's laws of scaling and you find that forces work differently on different scales, thus at micro level electrostatic forces scale down 1:1, whereas electormagnetic forces scale by a factor of 1/10,000,000. Thus electostatic attraction is more important on the micro scale, as is fluid surface tension. Volume and gravity are also less important. My particular field is in working on non silicon solutions to problems, since these have inherint limitations due primarily from their anisotropic etching characteristics. My own part of the project is based on a rig capable of setting up the necessary conditions for the process and monitoring it's progress, as well as improving upon some basic design considerations of the process, such as introducing Surface acoustic waves and new mask designs, as well as some limited modelling using the Schwarz Christoffel transformation to map the non uniform eE-fields that primarily drive the process. Ah right... got you. I have no fucking idea what you just said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 (edited) Ah right... got you. I have no fucking idea what you just said. It's not so out there as you think. Modern cars have dozens of MEMS sensors in them, primarily pressure sensors and accelorometers. In actual fact, it's how you nintendo wii works. it has a comb drive like this: Accelration causes the fingers to move closer togehte rof further apart, that produces a proportionate electrical signal (think of the cpaacitance between fingers). By taking the second differential of acceleration we get the displacement of the sensor, and by extension of the remote and your arm, which is translated to the screen from the wii.... Edited November 12, 2009 by renton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushroom Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 It's not so out there as you think. Modern cars have dozens of MEMS sensors in them, primarily pressure sensors and accelorometers.In actual fact, it's how you nintendo wii works. it has a comb drive like this: Accelration causes the fingers to move closer togehte rof further apart, that produces a proportionate electrical signal (think of the cpaacitance between fingers). By taking the second differential of acceleration we get the displacement of the sensor, and by extension of the remote and your arm, which is translated to the screen from the wii.... I think the question we all want answered is, can you use it to murder swans? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 It's not so out there as you think. Modern cars have dozens of MEMS sensors in them, primarily pressure sensors and accelorometers.In actual fact, it's how you nintendo wii works. it has a comb drive like this: Accelration causes the fingers to move closer togehte rof further apart, that produces a proportionate electrical signal (think of the cpaacitance between fingers). By taking the second differential of acceleration we get the displacement of the sensor, and by extension of the remote and your arm, which is translated to the screen from the wii.... Okay I sort of get that. Unfortunately not having taken AH Physics and having forgotten quite a lot of the Higher Physics syllabus this is only just creeping back into my mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Uni is shite. That is all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullywee Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Not quite, although my background is electrical engineering.MicroElectro-Mechanical Systems is my specialisation. Working on scales of 10^-6 metres to construct mechanical structures that can be integrated into electronic chips to form fully inegrated systems. MEMS have the advantage of operating under subtly different forces than their meso equivalents. Look up Trimmer's laws of scaling and you find that forces work differently on different scales, thus at micro level electrostatic forces scale down 1:1, whereas electormagnetic forces scale by a factor of 1/1,000,000. Thus electostatic attraction is more important on the micro scale, as is fluid surface tension. Volume and gravity are also less important. My particular field is in working on non silicon solutions to problems, since these have inherint limitations due primarily from their anisotropic etching characteristics. My own part of the project is based on a rig capable of setting up the necessary conditions for the process and monitoring it's progress, as well as improving upon some basic design considerations of the process, such as introducing Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) and new mask designs, as well as some limited modelling using the Schwarz Christoffel transformation to map the non uniform E-fields that primarily drive the process. AYE, SAME. (this is new patter to be used after a long winded, and widely ignored, post.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Has anyone ever done much in the way of reflective pieces of work before? I've got a group assignment in for this week, 5000 words between the three of us, but then for the week after I have to hand in a 1000 word individual reflective piece that centres on how we worked as a group and what went on, how we divided up the work, etc I haven't actually even thought about it yet, but it's 10% of my grade, and it just seems odd, if anything. Has anyone done anything similar? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 That sounds like a giant turd of an assignment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 That sounds like a giant turd of an assignment. Indeed. Think I'll actually fill out a module evaluation sheet for the first time, because there's a few things that have been pretty shambolic. The guy running the module is actually a really decent guy, and I'd like to believe that the shite stuff is out of his control... For example, the assignment has four distinct areas, and all of the tutorials except mine and one other are split into groups of four. Because there's only three of us, we have to try and work out who's going to do this other section, whilst also doing the work on our own one. Essentially, we're doing a third more work than the other groups, with no extra marks or anything. We'll actually probably end up with a lower grade. It's not the actual amount of work that bothers me, I'd rather do the 5000 words on my own than any sort of group work, but it just seems like it's grossly unfair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Garibaldi Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Yet again I've left a 1500 word essay to the last night without starting it, sometimes I have to just concede what an absolute c**t I am. The essay is for Sociology, with the question being: Examine the extent to which social divisions are socially contructed. Use either gender or ethnicity to construct and illustrate your argument. Now, last time I went overboard and it was too long, this time it's the opposite. In the example of gender some things are constructed and some are genetic, there's your fucking answer there. It's not that the question is too difficult, it's just I can't be arsed answering the question in two lines then writing another 1480 words of wishey washey shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theentomologist Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Indeed.Think I'll actually fill out a module evaluation sheet for the first time, because there's a few things that have been pretty shambolic. The guy running the module is actually a really decent guy, and I'd like to believe that the shite stuff is out of his control... For example, the assignment has four distinct areas, and all of the tutorials except mine and one other are split into groups of four. Because there's only three of us, we have to try and work out who's going to do this other section, whilst also doing the work on our own one. Essentially, we're doing a third more work than the other groups, with no extra marks or anything. We'll actually probably end up with a lower grade. It's not the actual amount of work that bothers me, I'd rather do the 5000 words on my own than any sort of group work, but it just seems like it's grossly unfair. it sounds like a nightmare. for a start, what's to stop someone/the others saying in their 1000 words, "dunc did f**k all" or academic speak for the same. the whole being a man down but having the same work is a right shitey situation. Has this been brought to the bloke running the thing's attention? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 it sounds like a nightmare. for a start, what's to stop someone/the others saying in their 1000 words, "dunc did f**k all" or academic speak for the same.the whole being a man down but having the same work is a right shitey situation. Has this been brought to the bloke running the thing's attention? I'm not sure, but I'm going to e-mail him at some point soon just to ask him about the whole thing, because he is a decent guy who e-mails back and answers questions properly. He's said that the reflective piece isn't there so that you can say "the other folk in my group are lazy fuckers and I did it all", but then I don't really understand it's purpose. To be honest, that wouldn't bother me at all, mainly because I went to all the classes, and did all the work. If it was just that sort of thing, I would be perfectly honest in mine and say "The other two in my group didn't attend all the classes, but I wasn't bothered because I knew that they were putting the work in, and they both told me if they weren't going to be there." I might e-mail him now, actually. Basically, because I'm procrastinating instead of doing the actual original assignment 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theentomologist Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 (edited) Yet again I've left a 1500 word essay to the last night without starting it, sometimes I have to just concede what an absolute c**t I am. The essay is for Sociology, with the question being: Examine the extent to which social divisions are socially contructed. Use either gender or ethnicity to construct and illustrate your argument. Now, last time I went overboard and it was too long, this time it's the opposite. In the example of gender some things are constructed and some are genetic, there's your fucking answer there. It's not that the question is too difficult, it's just I can't be arsed answering the question in two lines then writing another 1480 words of wishey washey shite. ffs its only 1500 words. get on your uni lib website, use your athens password (you DO have one of those surely) and use the journal database for sociology to search for "social construction" "Gender" surely. 5 minutes work, 1450 words. easy. edit: dont forget your athens password but something like this will get you your 1450 words Edited November 15, 2009 by theentomologist 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theentomologist Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 I'm not sure, but I'm going to e-mail him at some point soon just to ask him about the whole thing, because he is a decent guy who e-mails back and answers questions properly.He's said that the reflective piece isn't there so that you can say "the other folk in my group are lazy fuckers and I did it all", but then I don't really understand it's purpose. To be honest, that wouldn't bother me at all, mainly because I went to all the classes, and did all the work. If it was just that sort of thing, I would be perfectly honest in mine and say "The other two in my group didn't attend all the classes, but I wasn't bothered because I knew that they were putting the work in, and they both told me if they weren't going to be there." I might e-mail him now, actually. Basically, because I'm procrastinating instead of doing the actual original assignment oh well that's all right then cause everyone does as their told. obviously not going to happen in your group but I've done it before when asked to score what people did. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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