OT - What are you doing right now?

Dyal_SC

Susan, the octopus, is out and about today at the zoo. Usually, she’s hiding. 

Foghorn

Congrats on salvaging a draw @CPFC1905.  Almost redemption for last weekend.

JohnInCarolina

Giving my final exam in my graduate course (continuum mechanics).  Nothing quite like proctoring a test from 2-5 on a Saturday.  And yes I could ask one of my PhD students to do this, but that's not the way I roll.  

lousubcap

JohnInCarolina said:

Giving my final exam in my graduate course (continuum mechanics).  Nothing quite like proctoring a test from 2-5 on a Saturday.  And yes I could ask one of my PhD students to do this, but that's not the way I roll.  

The academic equivalent of "when in charge, be in charge."  Clearly the right thing to do...Well-played. 

kl8ton

JohnInCarolina said:

Giving my final exam in my graduate course (continuum mechanics).  Nothing quite like proctoring a test from 2-5 on a Saturday.  And yes I could ask one of my PhD students to do this, but that's not the way I roll.  

  A leader should show up in good times and in bad. 

kl8ton

JohnInCarolina said:

Giving my final exam in my graduate course (continuum mechanics).  Nothing quite like proctoring a test from 2-5 on a Saturday.  And yes I could ask one of my PhD students to do this, but that's not the way I roll.  

Can you please post one question that is on that exam here for us?  

Botch

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Giving my final exam in my graduate course (continuum mechanics).  Nothing quite like proctoring a test from 2-5 on a Saturday.  And yes I could ask one of my PhD students to do this, but that's not the way I roll.  

Can you please post one question that is on that exam here for us?  

Good request; my BS is in ME, and I don't even know what "continuum mechanics" is!  

Battleborn

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Giving my final exam in my graduate course (continuum mechanics).  Nothing quite like proctoring a test from 2-5 on a Saturday.  And yes I could ask one of my PhD students to do this, but that's not the way I roll.  

Can you please post one question that is on that exam here for us?  

The answer is “C”. 

JohnInCarolina

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Giving my final exam in my graduate course (continuum mechanics).  Nothing quite like proctoring a test from 2-5 on a Saturday.  And yes I could ask one of my PhD students to do this, but that's not the way I roll.  

Can you please post one question that is on that exam here for us?  

Legume

I didn't take Greek.

Dyal_SC

Something nerdy like that deserves a wedgie.  🤓 🩲 

Battleborn

After a quick calculation, the correct answer is 7. Not C. 

kl8ton

Thanks @JohnInCarolina

I like that. Thanks for playing along. I'm headed to Florida for vacation for a while. I may try to tackle this problem. Also, I might not.  Is this one of the easier problems or one of the more difficult problems on the test? I see it's worth 30 points. Are all of the problems weighted the same?

Are you grading all of these exams? How many students? How long will it take you to grade these exams?

HeavyG

I always get the  Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor confused with the Cauchy stress tensor.

CPFC1905

Foghorn said:

Congrats on salvaging a draw @CPFC1905.  Almost redemption for last weekend.

Got to be the inflection point, no good if they revert to being absolute bobbins next time.
Oh wait,  Thursday is El-Gatwicko   The filthy fetid wretched bin-dippers are coming to Selhurst.

1-1,  always is - BTW.

lkapigian

Potsticker Sausage on Pilaf with Calabrian Chili Crisp , Brisket Dumpling and a Texas Twinkie ( and some other stuff from yesterday)

Ybabpmuts

You lost me at carbon fiber in concrete, because I always thought that the best fiber to put carbon in was underpants for my sister Beulah. Your problem seems to indicate that there's concrete out there somewhere with worse farts than Beulah has. I'm glad I never went to college, if you all are just problem solving farting concrete there. My father always said .. if it's going to smell bad, just don't let it out. You college folks would do well to tell the new concrete people that I guess.

JohnInCarolina

kl8ton said:

Thanks @JohnInCarolina

I like that. Thanks for playing along. I'm headed to Florida for vacation for a while. I may try to tackle this problem. Also, I might not.  Is this one of the easier problems or one of the more difficult problems on the test? I see it's worth 30 points. Are all of the problems weighted the same?

Are you grading all of these exams? How many students? How long will it take you to grade these exams?

It’s one of the harder problems, so it’s worth more.  I’ll be grading them all myself, I always do.  There are nine students in the course.  It will take me most of the day today to grade.

johnmitchell

@lkapigian Absolutely fantastic 😋

johnmitchell

@JohnInCarolina. Well at least it’s an indoor weather day for today’s grading. Have a great day John.

JohnInCarolina

johnmitchell said:

@JohnInCarolina. Well at least it’s an indoor weather day for today’s grading. Have a great day John.

Haha I’m actually flying out to Albuquerque.  So I’ll be grading on the plane.  The university rules say we’re not supposed to grade when we’re high but I don’t think this is what they meant…

lkapigian

johnmitchell said:

@lkapigian Absolutely fantastic 😋

Thanks my friend 

lousubcap

@JohnInCarolina - I will take an option on that question.  So the students aren't yet in the PhD program and wrestling with this??

What have we come to where you have to be told, by the rules, to not grade when high??   I mean there is a good chance some of the test takers, paper writers etc were high at the time their knowledge was offered up...

Safe travels to the land of big energy.

lousubcap

@lkapigian - people were definitely eating well right there.  Impressive groceries for those in attendance. 

fishlessman

ColbyLang said:

Ahhh, the first day home is always peaceful. Theyre tired, you’re tired. Wait til day 3-4….they get comfy and start acting like a puppy.

Myles is cute, can’t wait to see @fishlessman new addition as well. Hard to believe my 2 have been with us for a year tomorrow 

If the first night tells me something.....the wire crate gets replaced with a small rubber room.  Crazy is an understatement

Braggart

HeavyG said:

I always get the  Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor confused with the Cauchy stress tensor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX27AfOEYGc

Pure comic gold.

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina - I will take an option on that question.  So the students aren't yet in the PhD program and wrestling with this??

What have we come to where you have to be told, by the rules, to not grade when high??   I mean there is a good chance some of the test takers, paper writers etc were high at the time their knowledge was offered up...

Safe travels to the land of big energy.

Mix of Masters and (first year) PhD students in the class. I had several drop out after the first homework assignment.  

I have to keep up my reputation among the students as the “Destroyer of Weekends”

Corv

Thanks @JohnInCarolina.

I was thinking that my undergraduate structures class didn't get into this sort of thing. And anisotropic behavior of materials is common enough in aerospace composite structural engineering, but I hadn't thought that civil engineering addressed it. Very interesting -- and far beyond my lowly level of rigor. Thanks!

Canugghead

Ozzie_Isaac

Dumb question @JohnInCarolina I understand weaves in concrete and rebar in concrete, but your drawing looks like carbon tubes.  That could be interesting because not only could you improve tensile strength, but may even improve compressive and flexural strength.  How do you "firmly" embed tubes like that?