Teaching
Cooking Up Plutonium-238
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September 5, 2022
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September 5, 2022
pSOS+ at Westinghouse Somewhere between 1995 and 2000, I was sent to teach a pSOS+ class to Westinghouse engineers in Savannah, Georgia.
Four
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December 23, 2014
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December 23, 2014
Professional History 1968-1972, American Express, Programmer - This is stint #1 of 2 with American Express.
Ten Work Days To Go
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December 15, 2014
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December 15, 2014
For the past several months we’ve been amazingly busy getting everything ready.
Engineering 101
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August 6, 2014
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August 6, 2014
Well, this process is what Bullseye shooters do to develop a successful shot plan: We write the steps down, follow those steps and, when something doesn’t work, we figure out how to change that shot plan so we do it right.
Chapter End
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July 31, 2014
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July 31, 2014
It was surprising to recently get a rental car with the license, “653 YRS” because, while I haven’t been teaching for that long, the last decade has definitely been the “ARINC 653” years.
Dutch
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March 13, 2014
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March 13, 2014
For a short, four-year period in the 1960s, the man sitting to my right was a High School teacher.
Global Hawk
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October 6, 2013
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October 6, 2013
The UAV flies at up to 60,000 feet and can “loiter” over an interesting location for 23 hours beaming live surveillance information to observers via satellite - the bulbous nose houses the steerable dish antenna that remains locked on the satellite to be used, some of which are in polar orbits and, therefore, in constant “motion " relative to Earth-side locations.
My Small Part
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September 11, 2013
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September 11, 2013
Today I am, hopefully, boosting the knowledge and abilities of engineers at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.