chaz720.net - journal

May 15, 2002

It's 3 o'clock, And we ask ourselves, "Where are we now?" It seems we've wondered out of bounds again! (Over and over, we ask ourselves why we don't utilize things that are stored deep inside of our brains!) I'm on my own and I can't see straight! Am I so stoned that I can't see straight? Man, I've got to find my way back home, but I'm too deep inside. It's 4 o'clock, And we ask ourselves, "Where did we go wrong? We passed my house at least an hour ago!" Over and over, we ask ourselves why don't we utilize things that are stored deep inside of our brains! I'm on my own and I can't see straight? Am I sooo stoned that I can't see straight? It's 5 o'clock, And we tell ourselves, "We need to get home! The sun is creeping overhead again!" I'm way too deep inside to go home... I've got to get sane!

I am back at the motorola again...

So far things are good except there are some issues to be resolved involving my keycard, but that kind of thing happens. I already have a computer and all my accounts and passwords work beautifully working so I have much to be thankful for, and in an environment where everyone seems to be busy at all times I'm willing to count my blessings. The project I will be working on here is probably going to be pretty cool and was thought up mostly by me. I'm not going to get into details because I can't, but it involves PHP and MySQL, and will be useful to pretty much everyone in my department. This is good because it will give me a chance to put an instance of actually using my web-ish knowledge at a place of business rather than just saying "yeah I can do that" on my resume.

I'm going to do some redesign to my subwoofer setup in the trunk of my car. Hans or someone suggested that an alternative could be found to the beast of a box that's in my trunk at the moment. While it hasn't really been a problem as of yet, it would be nice knowing that I could fold my seats down and get big stuff in my car if I ever wanted to, and plus it would be a fun project and we all know how I love fun projects involving power tools. The basic jist of it would be rather than to have one gargantuan dual 12" bandpass box like I have now, replace it with two smaller ported boxes each housing one 12" sub and residing in the rear corners of my trunk. These boxes would not only take up much less space, but would also give me back the ability to fold my seats down and get large items in my trunk. This undertaking will probably be accompanied by the cleaning up of some of the wiring and other things I've been meaning to get around to but couldn't do while I was at school. As I said, a fun project.

I had some down time this morning so I took the liberty to choose my classes for the remainder of my college career. The good news is I will be able to graduate in four years and get a CS minor. The even better news is I don't even have to go over 15 hours a semester to do it. My last semester actually comes out to be 12 hours! So without further delay, here's what I'm taking from here on out.

For 5th semester:

ECE 229 - 3 hours - Intro to Electromagnetic Fields
ECE 249 - 2 hours - Digital Systems Laboratory
CS 173 - 2 hours - Discrete Mathematical Structures
TAM 152 - 3 hours - Engineering Mechanics I - Statics
MCBIO 100 - 3 hours - Introductory Microbiology
NRES 100 - 3 hours - Earth Care

For 6th semester:

ECE 340 - 3 hours - Solid State Electronic Devices
ECE 310 - 4 hours - Digital Signal Processing
CS 225 - 4 hours - Data Structures and Software Principles
CS 273 - 3 hours - Introduction to Theory of Computation

For 7th semester:

ECE 342/3 - 4 hours - Electronic Circuits
ECE 320 - 2 hours - Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
ECE 373 - 3 hours - Fundamentals of Engineering Acoustics
CS 311 - 3 hours - Database Systems
HIST 152 - 3 hours - History of the United States, 1877 to the Present

For 8th semester:

ECE 345 - 2 hours - Senior Design Project Laboratory
ECE 318 - 4 hours - Introduction to Image and Video Processing
ECE 303 - 3 hours - Topics in Audio Engineering
ASTR 304 - 3 hours - Astrophysics

And that's all she wrote. It's not only very easy for me to get a CS minor, there is no reason whatsoever not to. I found out that simply picking my general BSEE graduation requirements "correctly" will result in my having a CS minor without any overhead whatsoever. The classes: ECE229, 303, 310, 318, 320, and 373 will all work toward my specialization in audio equipment, and the rest are essentially just requirements that focus on designing circuits which is useful knowledge for EEs in any field.

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