Yesterday, WPI played MIT in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship game in men's basketball. As everybody knows, I would have been there if I was in Worcester, but I haven't been able to really follow the team since I am in Fresno, CA doing my MQP. I thought I would just have to miss this game like all the ( Read more... )

I noticed a lot of my recent entries about the project have been somewhat negative. It's actually not that bad. It just gets very frustrating at times when you're designing something and every possible problem comes up when testing it. We have been trying to design a plate-and-frame press filter simulator to simulate the large-scale filtration ( Read more... )

Today got off to a very weird start. I was waiting for the bus this morning when a guy walked up to the stop this morning and looked me in the eye and started talking to me. Not unusual, the people here in Cali are always cordial. When we get on the bus, another passenger immediately questioned who this guy was. It turns out that this guy that ( Read more... )

I'll give you a while to ponder where that is ( Read more... )

This last week at work was kinda strange. Monday and Tuesday was like normal with the exception of preparing for Prof. DiBiasio's visit. Wednesday morning comes and I have to help direct Prof. D to the plant because he left his directions back in Worc. and only remembered part of them. But as soon as I get off the phone with him, I get another call ( Read more... )

Ugggghhhh. It seems like every step forward we take on our project, we take a step back. So it seems like we have been treading water the whole time. We really haven't gone anywhere. We have been trying to set up a system where we can do some vacuum filtration at really high pressures (40 psi) with various types of filter media. Problems have been ( Read more... )

Oh, by the way, the singer of "Tall, Tall Trees" is Alan Jackson ( Read more... )

This week was a very important week for us and our project. We had hoped to be saviors for Gallo an help them reduce the costs associated with using DE as a filter aid. Well as a result of our experiments this week, we found out that DE can be regenerated for some liquids but not all. So this means we can't regenerate DE after it is used and Gallo ( Read more... )

Extra credit for the people who know who sings that song ( Read more... )

I have been trying to post this for 3 days now. LJ just wouldn't let me. There was something screwy with my password setup apparently ( Read more... )