MU Engineering

[theBabyDavid]

I frequently travel to the GE Power Advanced Manufacturing Center in Greenville, SC and several times now have run into MU Engineering grads who are part of the GE Edison internship program. This is a high intensity 3 year program where newly minted engineers are thrown into challenging engineering projects aimed at solving real business priorities. GE recruits from a rather select list of schools so I was pleased to see that MU was part of that mix (which I believe started with the acquisition of Marquette Medical back in the 90's.)

We are working with Power and Renewable Energy to address some issues on transmission and line loss. Yesterday, we interviewed several Edisons at the Innovation Center to join our team working on bi-directional inverters. There were candidates from Georgia Tech, MIT, and Purdue but we hands down agreed that the MU guy was the best for what we needed. One year out of Marquette as an ME and he will be an integral part of a team developing the next generation of 2-3 MW power conversion technology.

As an aside, I later asked if he knew of Scoop and he of course did. He said, however, that among current students and recent grads it is known for being a bunch of opiniated old guys arguing ceaselessly about stupid sh1t. Realizing what he said he started back pedaling but I cut him off saying I was in complete agreement. From the mouths of babes...

[Archies Bat]

As an aside, I later asked if he knew of Scoop and he of course did. He said, however, that among current students and recent grads it is known for being a bunch of opiniated old guys arguing ceaselessly about stupid sh1t. Realizing what he said he started back pedaling but I cut him off saying I was in complete agreement. From the mouths of babes...

He's wrong, it is not ceaseless.  We all need a break for our naps.

[MUBBau]

If they don't like it, they can stay off our lawn, er I mean website

[mu_hilltopper]

Gonna need some Arby's after reading that.

[tower912]

Get there for the early bird special and try to not get into a fight. 

[theBabyDavid]

Jeez, the point of the post is that recent MU Engineering grads are not just in demand but making a difference in the world.

I know that GE Healthcare snapped up biomed engineering grads by the handful but the alums I am meeting in Greenville today are MEs. And to a man they are impressive.


       

[mu03eng]

[TSmith34, Inc.]

[StillAWarrior]

There were candidates from Georgia Tech, MIT, and Purdue but we hands down agreed that the MU guy was the best for what we needed. One year out of Marquette as an ME and he will be an integral part of a team developing the next generation of 2-3 MW power conversion technology...As an aside, I later asked if he knew of Scoop and he of course did. He said, however, that among current students and recent grads it is known for being a bunch of opiniated old guys arguing ceaselessly about stupid sh1t.

So, not only a talented engineer, but wise beyond his years.  Good hire.  Good luck.

[theBabyDavid]

So, not only a talented engineer, but wise beyond his years.  Good hire.  Good luck.

An exceptionally sharp young engineer. Proud to say he is a Marquette grad.

[D'Lo Brown]

Internet bullies like ****** need to know that Ranger-tabbed warriors are sick of his gutless sh1t

I was curious what exactly this meant, but apparently it means you finished the 61-day Ranger training course in the US or Canadian Army. It has to do with being proficient in infantry combat in certain physical, but not virtual, environments.

I'm curious what relevance this has to curbing "internet bullies", regardless of who?

[Babybluejeans]

I was curious what exactly this meant, but apparently it means you finished the 61-day Ranger training course in the US or Canadian Army. It has to do with being proficient in infantry combat in certain physical, but not virtual, environments.

I'm curious what relevance this has to curbing "internet bullies", regardless of who?

75th Ranger Regiment is a regiment, and is what most common-folk think of when they think of an "elite Ranger." Ranger school, on the other hand, is a course, for which you receive a tab.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

And to a man they are impressive.


       

No broads in the program, aina?

[jesmu84]

An exceptionally sharp young engineer. Proud to say he is a Marquette grad.

But did he have an au pair growing up?

[g0lden3agle]

As a current controls engineer for a floundering Big 3 Auto company..... they hiring???

[theBabyDavid]

I was curious what exactly this meant, but apparently it means you finished the 61-day Ranger training course in the US or Canadian Army. It has to do with being proficient in infantry combat in certain physical, but not virtual, environments.

I'm curious what relevance this has to curbing "internet bullies", regardless of who?

AFSOC TACPs embedded with Ranger teams go through the Ranger School House. Upon graduation they earn the right to wear the Ranger tab.

Ranger School is a ball buster that teaches small unit tactics. Fully qualified SEALs, Marine Force RECON, AFSOC TACPs, PJs, and Special Tactics airmen, and SF Q course grads are eligible for the training. Few are selected for this challenge; even fewer make it through.

If one has the mental and physical strength plus the character and integrity to make it through Ranger School you join an elite group of men whose toughness and resolve is beyond question. Ranger tabbed warriors go out and do the impossible. More importantly, they are willing to make the supreme sacrifice for something bigger than themselves.

Internet bullies, on the other hand, infest the other end of the human spectrum. They could never get in to Ranger School much less hope to graduate. The essence of Ranger training is teamwork; internet bullies are solitary vermin who have a pathological need to be right or to seem smarter than others.

They spend all day, every day, hiding behind avatars and shouting down others with an absurd compulsion to be better than they are in reality. They barrage others with their posts which number in the ridiculous.   

It is easy to be a bully, especially in an anonymous world. Internet tough guys are cheap and vulgar. They are contemptible for their cowardice. These are the sorts who would sh1t themselves standing on the ramp at night preparing to jump from 28,000'; much less, they would never actually HALO deep inside enemy country to carry out an 11 day covert mission for their country.

You have to ask, what sort of an existence is it to post on a sports website dozens of times a week to argue with strangers about meaningless topics? Year after year after year?

Some people left Marquette and went out and did something. They created. They invented. They explored. They improved. They were compelling.

Others posted tens of thousands of shrill, petulant cries of anguish in a dark night. One either comprehends not only the difference but the magnitude of the despair. Real toughness versus presumed.

[theBabyDavid]

75th Ranger Regiment is a regiment, and is what most common-folk think of when they think of an "elite Ranger." Ranger school, on the other hand, is a course, for which you receive a tab.

And AFSOC TACPs, once tabbed, are embedded with elements of the 75th. These teams carry out covert operations behind enemy lines to deliver decisive air power.

Since you seem so dismissive you must be a Ranger?

I doubt it since a Ranger knows what TACPs do. My guess is that the closest you got to the Ranger School was driving by on your way to the base barber shop to get a Ranger High and Tight.   

[theBabyDavid]

As a current controls engineer for a floundering Big 3 Auto company..... they hiring???

We are doing another project with GE Power for hydrogen fueled engines. We actually need controls/SCADA engineers to work in Seattle, Waukesha, and Austria.

GE is selling the on-site, recip business to Advent International, a hedge fund run by a great group guys. This H2 technology was a key factor in Advent's acquisition of the non-gas turbine enterprise.

The IP we are developing will belong to us and GE but the deal gives Distributed Power first mover advantage in the marketplace since our application engineering is on their products which range from 100 kW to 10 MW.

What would be valuable is knowledge of lean burn recips, hydrogen reforming, carbon sequestration, and AI.

PM me if interested. I will be in Waukesha in two weeks so I could meet while in WI.

 

[mu03eng]

We are doing another project with GE Power for hydrogen fueled engines. We actually need controls/SCADA engineers to work in Seattle, Waukesha, and Austria.

GE is selling the on-site, recip business to Advent International, a hedge fund run by a great group guys. This H2 technology was a key factor in Advent's acquisition of the non-gas turbine enterprise.

The IP we are developing will belong to us and GE but the deal gives Distributed Power first mover advantage in the marketplace since our application engineering is on their products which range from 100 kW to 10 MW.

What would be valuable is knowledge of lean burn recips, hydrogen reforming, carbon sequestration, and AI.

PM me if interested. I will be in Waukesha in two weeks so I could meet while in WI.

 

As a recovering ME myself it's great to hear we are still turning out high quality engineers. When I'm on campus for networking or recruiting I'm generally impressed but good to know it's not just my impression.

Control/SCADA competencies are hard to find in the market right now. We're trying to embed more SCADA training in college programs but it's been hard for the academic types to look beyond the theoretical to the practical

[GGGG]

AFSOC TACPs embedded with Ranger teams go through the Ranger School House. Upon graduation they earn the right to wear the Ranger tab.

Ranger School is a ball buster that teaches small unit tactics. Fully qualified SEALs, Marine Force RECON, AFSOC TACPs, PJs, and Special Tactics airmen, and SF Q course grads are eligible for the training. Few are selected for this challenge; even fewer make it through.

If one has the mental and physical strength plus the character and integrity to make it through Ranger School you join an elite group of men whose toughness and resolve is beyond question. Ranger tabbed warriors go out and do the impossible. More importantly, they are willing to make the supreme sacrifice for something bigger than themselves.

Internet bullies, on the other hand, infest the other end of the human spectrum. They could never get in to Ranger School much less hope to graduate. The essence of Ranger training is teamwork; internet bullies are solitary vermin who have a pathological need to be right or to seem smarter than others.

They spend all day, every day, hiding behind avatars and shouting down others with an absurd compulsion to be better than they are in reality. They barrage others with their posts which number in the ridiculous.   

It is easy to be a bully, especially in an anonymous world. Internet tough guys are cheap and vulgar. They are contemptible for their cowardice. These are the sorts who would sh1t themselves standing on the ramp at night preparing to jump from 28,000'; much less, they would never actually HALO deep inside enemy country to carry out an 11 day covert mission for their country.

You have to ask, what sort of an existence is it to post on a sports website dozens of times a week to argue with strangers about meaningless topics? Year after year after year?

Some people left Marquette and went out and did something. They created. They invented. They explored. They improved. They were compelling.

Others posted tens of thousands of shrill, petulant cries of anguish in a dark night. One either comprehends not only the difference but the magnitude of the despair. Real toughness versus presumed.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

I was curious what exactly this meant, but apparently it means you finished the 61-day Ranger training course in the US or Canadian Army. It has to do with being proficient in infantry combat in certain physical, but not virtual, environments.

I'm curious what relevance this has to curbing "internet bullies", regardless of who?

Mix one part of Keefe's need for continuous self-fellation with one part of hatred for the guy that busted him for plagiarizing a white supremacist site and viola, a signature block is born.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

You have to ask, what sort of an existence is it to post on a sports website dozens of times a week to argue with strangers about meaningless topics? Year after year after year?

Others posted tens of thousands of shrill, petulant cries of anguish in a dark night. One either comprehends not only the difference but the magnitude of the despair.

Help me understand this point Keefe. You seem to have some disdain for those who spend a lot of time on sites like Scoop. Lord knows I probably spend way too much of my life thinking, posting, and writing about Marquette basketball.

Why I'm confused is because at a time, you had one of top 7 or 8 post counts on this site. In fact, despite you old account's nearly year long hiatus, your still #11 on the all time list, with over 600 posts between you and #12. On top of that, you are one of the newer posters in that top 11, so it's not just longevity. At one point, you were one of the top 2 or 3 posters in terms of posts per day, behind only the legendary Bailbondsman and possibly Sultan. Surely someone with your educational background can understand why some of us might see a disconnect between your words above and your past actions.

As for the rest of your post, thank you for your service and your contributions to the field of energy. I have recommended this to you before, but I'll reiterate, I think you should read Matthew chapter 6 verses 1-6. It's one of my favorite bible passages and one I try to live out in my life every day. I would love to know your thoughts on it.

[jficke13]

So are MU engineers any good? All I remember after that weird internet feud is that recent MU grads aren't into weird internet feuding.

[Babybluejeans]

Some of us achieve great things but don't talk about it, because we're busy doing. It's in our nature, so there's no compulsion to boast.

Others may be products of lifelong, deep insecurities about their self-worth that eventually grow in the corners of their subconscious, twisting them into gnarled, insufferable gasbags, bragging emptily about vague accomplishments before slipping into decay. And in their final moments of lucidity, the unsatisfying film rolling in their mind reaches the end of its reel, and the narrator whispers "Hillary."

[Pakuni]

Some of us achieve great things but don't talk about it, because we're busy doing. It's in our nature, so there's no compulsion to boast.

[jesmu84]

Mix one part of Keefe's need for continuous self-fellation with one part of hatred for the guy that busted him for plagiarizing a white supremacist site and viola, a signature block is born.

I think I missed something...

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I think I missed something...

I believe it is a reference to this:

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=54409.msg943859#msg943859

[vogue65]

Great read about some real world engineering, thank you.

On the subject of PTSD, we need some understanding and compassion.

As the warriors age the only memory left is from the war, whatever war.

At the end my father could not remember that the world trade center was destroyed, he would say, they did what??,  they knocked down the WTC?  Nevertheless, he knew every battle he was in, at night he would roam around his home with a club looking for Nazies. He was 90.  He was protecting my mother, but the VA said he was in fact a danger to my mother because he might have mistaken her for an enemy.

My best golf partner can't sleep without the nightmares, he has made plans to end it, he just has not picked out the date.  He is no RANGER patch guy, just an old grunt who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  He has been successful in business, raised three great kids, has a beautiful Chinese doctor as his wife, but the pain is just getting too much.

Had lunch with a young man a few weeks ago, Citadel graduate, former Marine Officer, 4 tours in Anbar,  no hero war stories, he runs for hours every day to keep it together, as a young man, it's working.   His life is unmanageable, Marriott Corp. is helping him, time will tell.

Want another one?  Ritchie, he came back from Vietnam and lived in a hole in the woods for a few years.  He was no hero, he just carried the dead on his back and the are still there, more so as time passes.

Or my carpenter who was a door gunner on a slick who would hose down the helicopter floor to get the blood out.

How about my father, a combat infrantry officer, no RANGER patch, lost 16 men from his company his first night in combat.  As a kid I watched him pull people out of cars and beat them up, I watched him beat up my Boy Scout leader.

My wife's brother, airborne, seargent, came back from Vietnam and ended it with his pistol. Or my long time friend, a retired general, former SES who cries , every time he goes to the wall over a friendly fire incident he was involved in.

So when I read, see and hear the pain of combat survivors I get it.   I really understand and I hope my little diatribe against war might help some of you understand as well.  We hear a lot about the brave well trained heros, we hear very little about what comes home. 






 

[Mutaman]

I frequently travel to the GE Power Advanced Manufacturing Center in Greenville, SC and several times now have run into MU Engineering grads who are part of the GE Edison internship program. This is a high intensity 3 year program where newly minted engineers are thrown into challenging engineering projects aimed at solving real business priorities. GE recruits from a rather select list of schools so I was pleased to see that MU was part of that mix (which I believe started with the acquisition of Marquette Medical back in the 90's.)

We are working with Power and Renewable Energy to address some issues on transmission and line loss. Yesterday, we interviewed several Edisons at the Innovation Center to join our team working on bi-directional inverters. There were candidates from Georgia Tech, MIT, and Purdue but we hands down agreed that the MU guy was the best for what we needed. One year out of Marquette as an ME and he will be an integral part of a team developing the next generation of 2-3 MW power conversion technology.

As an aside, I later asked if he knew of Scoop and he of course did. He said, however, that among current students and recent grads it is known for being a bunch of opiniated old guys arguing ceaselessly about stupid sh1t. Realizing what he said he started back pedaling but I cut him off saying I was in complete agreement. From the mouths of babes...

Should I spend the time trying to figure out which White Supremacist web sight this was plagiarized from?

[Mutaman]

Great read about some real world engineering, thank you.

On the subject of PTSD, we need some understanding and compassion.

As the warriors age the only memory left is from the war, whatever war.

At the end my father could not remember that the world trade center was destroyed, he would say, they did what??,  they knocked down the WTC?  Nevertheless, he knew every battle he was in, at night he would roam around his home with a club looking for Nazies. He was 90.  He was protecting my mother, but the VA said he was in fact a danger to my mother because he might have mistaken her for an enemy.

My best golf partner can't sleep without the nightmares, he has made plans to end it, he just has not picked out the date.  He is no RANGER patch guy, just an old grunt who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  He has been successful in business, raised three great kids, has a beautiful Chinese doctor as his wife, but the pain is just getting too much.

Had lunch with a young man a few weeks ago, Citadel graduate, former Marine Officer, 4 tours in Anbar,  no hero war stories, he runs for hours every day to keep it together, as a young man, it's working.   His life is unmanageable, Marriott Corp. is helping him, time will tell.

Want another one?  Ritchie, he came back from Vietnam and lived in a hole in the woods for a few years.  He was no hero, he just carried the dead on his back and the are still there, more so as time passes.

Or my carpenter who was a door gunner on a slick who would hose down the helicopter floor to get the blood out.

How about my father, a combat infrantry officer, no RANGER patch, lost 16 men from his company his first night in combat.  As a kid I watched him pull people out of cars and beat them up, I watched him beat up my Boy Scout leader.

My wife's brother, airborne, seargent, came back from Vietnam and ended it with his pistol. Or my long time friend, a retired general, former SES who cries , every time he goes to the wall over a friendly fire incident he was involved in.

So when I read, see and hear the pain of combat survivors I get it.   I really understand and I hope my little diatribe against war might help some of you understand as well.  We hear a lot about the brave well trained heros, we hear very little about what comes home. 

It sounds like you're implying that Keefe suffers from some PTSD which might be a cause for his obvious serious psychological problems. Except the guys I've run into with PTSD don't want to talk about their military experience whereas with Keefe, you can't get him to shut up about it. 

[vogue65]

It sounds like you're implying that Keefe suffers from some PTSD which might be a cause for his obvious serious psychological problems. Except the guys I've run into with PTSD don't want to talk about their military experience whereas with Keefe, you can't get him to shut up about it.

I'm no expert, not a therapist, just a lot of experience.  The way that warriors deal with their combat experiences is complex and very individual.

After my father passed away I went to one of his Division reunions, 103rd Infantry, it was in New Orleans.  I met his first seargent and a man from his company.  When my father came home after the war he had nothing to do with the Army, the Division, the Red Cross or the American Legion. 

His anger was so acute he could not hold a job for most of his working life.  BTW, Marquette accepted me anyway, no requirement in those days of a legacy connection or a background of prevledge. 

In New Orleans I met my fathers first seargent who was president of the association, he went to France and dedicated a number of monuments commemorating the sacrifices of the Division and he helped fund a statue in Texas where they trained.  Their documents are at Southern Texas University.

The last night together we sat in the lobby of the hotel and he cried with me like a baby.  He was in his 80's.  He shared with me how everyone deals with the combat experience differently.

In New Orleans they have the WWII museum and it has a 4D movie with moving chairs, smoke, lights, realistic sound, etc..  Well, after the movie the old men came out with tears in their eyes, it was almost cruel or perhaps it was theraputic.

I was in the Marines "during" Vietnam, I went through OCS at Quantico.  Today I watch the V.A.do some outstanding work with Vets.  They even use cooking classes, and guitar lessons which are  very effective.

I don't know about Keefe, after he attacked me a number of times I put him on ignore, now I just pray for him.  He did mention in a post that he goes to the VA for combat related help and that he is very satisfied with his treatment, that's all I have to go on. 

[mu03eng]

It sounds like you're implying that Keefe suffers from some PTSD which might be a cause for his obvious serious psychological problems. Except the guys I've run into with PTSD don't want to talk about their military experience whereas with Keefe, you can't get him to shut up about it.

How about we just leave well enough alone. There is zero need to attack here, just move on from the thread.