Congratulations to everyone that managed to not get singled out by a power-tripping administrator!

I'm still alive. Working on programming and writing and work. No real news, except that the big project I'm concentrating on right now is a real downer.

Hi. Senior Design for Chemical Engineers involves designing a chemical plant pretty much from the ground up. To do it we use a lot of bullshit software, and I decided to throw my own into the mix. I mainly wrote it to streamline some of the more hideously boring parts of the process, such as cost analysis and heat integration. Not-at-all ironically ( Read more... )

That code I'm writing for senior design, it's now able to do most cost analysis correctly, it's able to do stream matching for heat integration based on lowest energy, and I just got the stream matching based on best NPV running. There's a few things re: output that I need to work out, but it's pretty much done. I'll post an executable and source ( Read more... )

Imagine a hypercube with side length 1. For the common definition of 'volume' (length times width times height times hyperlength times etc.) the volume of the cube is 1. That's true no matter how many dimensions this strange beast inhabits ( Read more... )

The Asshole's Guide to Passing the FE Exam
(or, How I Didn't Spend My Summer)

So you've decided to take the FE exam. Good for you. This is what you need to do to get ready in the months leading up to it.

Don't studyAt all. Don't look at any of your notes from the last four years, don't pay for the ridiculously overpriced study materials, and ( Read more... )

Hello CHEG325. This is an announcement that applies to a small, but significant fraction of you, so listen up ( Read more... )

50 Things For Guys to do for their Girlfriends on Valentine's Day1: Buy a box of chocolates ( Read more... )

This is what happens when I drink.

D:

"The Order of the Engineer was formed as a fellowship of engineers trained in science and technology and dedicated to the teaching, administration, and/or practice of their profession. Members of the order are identified by the wearing of a stainless steel ring on the little finger of the working hand. This ring symbolizes the wearer's commitment ( Read more... )

"I am a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in the skin of a drifter I killed a few weeks back."

"You're the President of the United States."

"I'm Batman!"