First Week
Well, after the first week I would have to say this is going great! Goodrich is amazing and I am constantly doing something. I think it is amazing that they instantly threw me into a project on the first day after 2 hours of orientation.
First the low down, the Vergennes Goodrich is making a number of “Black Boxes,” they do different things from check the fuel level, using capacitors sort of scary, check to see if different fuel valves are open, or helping open the cabin doors if the power goes out using charges to “help” open the door. It is all pretty cool. But the group I am working with deals with the CSS, Central Server System or something like that. It receives ALL of the information from the so called black boxes and checks to make sure everything is working correctly. The cool thing about the setup is the crazy amount of redundancy, there are 2-4 sets of redundancy throughout the fuel system, it is really neat.
BUT, what I am doing is creating simulations of the “black boxes” to test the CSS because we visually cant see if the systems are working correctly when they are hooked up, so the simulation gives a visual representation of all the data. It allows us to input the data, and then see what happens with the output. So we get to check that the correct valves get shutoff, the fuel calculations are correct, if one valve is open, it wont try to open the next one and let all the fuel out. I am very happy I stayed, but I know I would have been just as happy if I had gone to China.
And the sweet thing about Goodrich is:
- I have my own desk
- Brand new 2gig Sandisk thumbdrive
- Brand new Dell 3.2GHz 2gigs of ram
- Another machine to do my simulations on
- A sweet KVM
- Whenever I print stuff, it first prints out MY name on the top paper
- Everyone I work with is awesome and great to work with.
The place I am living at is very nice, everyone is extremely welcoming it is cool. But they are all older, one is 37ish, 60ish, and the owner is around 45-55. Sooo…. it is calm and peaceful, but it is in the woods around nothing in South Starksboro, sort of boring. So at the end of the month I will be moving in with Jon at his apartment in Shelburne, well it is more of Burlington. It is about 2 miles from Church St. and about 50 yards from Lake Champlain. From the outside is looks really scary, but once you walk it, it has REALLY nice hardwood floors, a big sliding glass door to the backyard, a good size backyard too. A big brick patio, which is probably where I will park my bike when I get it because there is no driveway, all street parking. It will definitely be WAY sweeter then the place I am at now, and it will be cheaper too. PUMPED!
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