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Audio driver? Sound card fried?

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Nice... I'll have to keep an eye out when I'm driving up the 5!

Oh great! They [Toyota's cars] just keep getting uglier!

It was weird here too... ...it hit the low 80's

My V8 gets excellent highway fuel mileage, which is where its mostly driven. So I can live with a hike in prices, it just means slightly less fun on the streets.

I met a guy, during a summer trip through Europe, who spent 3 weeks of his 5 week trip in Liechtenstein! This guy also called Munich, Munchen (pronounced like it's spelled, not like the Germans do).

$h!s 'n giggles? More $ than brains? At first glance, I thought it was the "Pimp My Ride" one... but this might actually be a copy-cat.

Cool!!!

:AH-HA_wink: And remember... there actually is no such thing as "centrifugal force"

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That never occured to me... I have heard of M.Eng., but not B.Eng. Anyway... I got one. Here are a few things I can remember that were important to learn from Physics, since you would apply them in ME classes... Statics, Sum of Forces = 0 etc. Get used to working with vectors and all the geometry/trig that goes along with them Kinetics, concepts of moving objects Simple electric circuits, KVL, KCL Concepts of kinetic and potential energy, their balance etc. And, as far as Calculus goes... Taking derivatives Vector Calculus. Very important, if your curriculum includes 3D dynamics Basics of Integration Solving differential equations (mostly for first and second order systems) Physics and parts of Calculus will touch on the fundamentals of lots of future ME classes, like... Statics, Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluids...As far as Chemistry goes... um... well... just get it over with, and you shouldn't have to worry about it in the future. At least I didn't. But I also didn't take tech. electives that would have required it.

I'll probably end up being a professor and (hopefully) working in industry. My old advisor at Cal Poly has already said he wants me to come back and teach, so I don't have to worry much about that. It's more a matter of who, in industry, will hire me. I'm currently working with the Los Alamos Nat'l Lab, so I might spend a couple years there after I'm done with the Ph.D. to get "real-world" experience. As far as ME classes go... I'de say the better you understand Calc and physics now (not just pass the classes... really, really understand) the easier the ME classes will be. But, there will still be classes like Dynamics that can kick your ass. Are you required to take a Linear Algebra class? I'd suggest taking one... I think that means Bachelors degree in Engineering, as opposed to Science.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona, 2003 M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UCSD, 2005 Ph.D. in Dynamic Systems and Contro, UCSD, ?

The Cal Poly's (Cal. State. Poly. U. Pomona, and San Luis Obispo) are excellent schools for Engineering, and they are "cheap." Tuition was ~US$ 2,000 when I attended Cal Poly Pomona from '98-'03. I'm currently working on my Ph.D. at a UC, and I can tell you from first hand experience with undergraduate programs at CSU's and UC's... The Cal Poly's offer a better "real-world" Engineering program.

I see... or should I say, I hear... Had I not read Nos's post, I would have totally missed the point of this post...

Excellent point... my sister's Jetta has burned out a few bulbs. We just took it in for this recall, so I wonder if things will change.

I still wouldn't have cared.

I don't care.

My car doesn't exist

Nice to see the Silverado in 1st, but I find it hard to believe the F-150 placed last.

While not necessarily labeled as "snow mode," I know the last gen. F-bodies and the GMT800's started in 2nd if you chose that gear with the selector, or had a switch (I've only seen this in some Firebirds) you could flip to force the car to start in 2nd.

Yeah... Waltrip and Gordon stuck, because they were all over the news. I totally forgot about the infractions they handed out earlier in the week.

You guys (the ones that don't like it) have to look at the big picture... the total design... It looks really good! Note: Spending waaay too much time in an Audi/VW dealership this past week could have caused me to like their stuff more then I usually would.

Luckily, he understands it will take him time to learn, and we have an "old" (2001) Beetle for him to learn on. Best of all... we got the "extra coverage" that will take care of a worn clutch etc. Edit: I do totally agree that the GTI 6M is too much car for a novice stick driver... hell, a novice driver... The only reason we got the car now, as opposed to months from now, is that my dad liked the lease terms (and he's been itching to get a new car). Anyway, like I mentioned, my brother loves the car and doesn't want to f-it up. So... he's in no rush to start driving it. Meanwhile, I might get to drive it around on the weekends :AH-HA_wink: