Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Administrivia, Thesis on Jul 25th, 2007
For those who are wondering, I finally got the thesis wrapped up and submitted for publication on Monday. My final thesis committee member got back from camping, signed the thing off, and after an afternoon of running around, I had the thesis in and all the rest of the paperwork in for graduation. The paper [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Thesis on Jul 19th, 2007
It’s been a while since I posted anything, and I figured it was time to give an update. After the defense on the 3rd, I spent most of the next week pretty much rewriting my whole paper, and redoing one of the key experiments. Although it was a lot more rework than I expected, it [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jul 9th, 2007
Well, the long hard thesis slog continues. I’m just finished analyzing data from one of the main experiments that I had to redo as part of the thesis revision. In this experiment, I measure the magnitude of the impedance of the coupled piezoelectric/nozzle system at a whole bunch of different frequencies, and then compare that [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jul 3rd, 2007
So, I defended my thesis today. And “passed with qualifications”, which means that they had some things they wanted me to fix before they’d sign off on it. Unfortunately, the qualifications include basically rewriting much of the thesis, and then coming back to re-defend it sometime soon. Oh, and did I mention that the absolute [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 29th, 2007
Just wanted to let everyone know that I made it out to Utah today. I’ll be defending my thesis on Tuesday, so I’ve got a couple of days to put together my presentation, and polish up the thesis a bit. I’ll be out here till around the 7th or so, with the hope being that [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 18th, 2007
Just wanted to let everyone know that I got my thesis sent off to my committee today. I still need to get all of them to sign off by tomorrow on it being ready for defense, but the it looks like I’ve made it! If all goes well, on the 3rd of next month I’ll [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 14th, 2007
I just thought I’d show you some of what I’ve been up to lately. Before we could do the jet pulsation tests, we needed some good steady-flow tests to demonstrate that we had a system that could accurately detect jet modulation photographically, and that our steady-state jets were smooth enough for easy comparison. Mike Massee [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 10th, 2007
Just thought I’d give an update real quick. Last week was a blur. Last Sunday, one of the tenants there in Mojave who stores explosives for the local mines had one of their containers explode. So we were locked out of our test area most of the week. Then Monday, Tiff ended up having a [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 3rd, 2007
Hey guys, I’m going to be busy out of my mind as I start the last two weeks before my thesis has to be finished and ready to defend, most likely pulling 40-50 hours a week on that on top of the 40 hours a week I’m working at MSS. I was able to get [...]
Posted in Thesis on May 30th, 2007
I figured it might be a good idea to bring this one up on the blog, just in case. Over the weekend, I finally got my flow test rig setup for my thesis. The rig is pretty similar to the fuel half of our igniter cart–basically it’s just a fluid tank with a regulated pressure [...]