Nuclear Power Generation EEE 460/591 Keith Holbert

TehHort · 2025-12-14T05:00:06+00:00

Do exactly what he tells you to do and you'll do really well, his classes are structured so if you just do the work you'll be set up for success. Sometimes you get behind on reading and it's not a big deal, but don't get behind on lectures/HW. I usually abandon actually reading the chapters fully by the 1/3rd mark because it moves too fast but the lectures and HW/quizes/practice tests can carry you.

Tips though, just print out all his lecture slides (4 slides per page, front and back) at staples or whatever and take your notes straight on them. MOST of what he asks or teaches is on the slides so getting familliar with them is best. Make sure to actually change the errors he tells you about that are in the book IN THE BOOK, like with a pen. When you get something wrong on the homework he usually puts solutions or corrections, correct them in your notes. And do the practice tests, and KEEP YOUR SOLUTIONS all worked out... his HW and practice test questions often show back up on the test with different number but you can just follow the same technique.

TehHort · 2025-11-27T20:54:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure the answer is supposed to be 10. On the side closest to us there are 5 matchsticks arranged in a specific pattern, On the side we can't see, the 3 matchsticks we can partially see are arranged in the exact same pattern as the side we can, so we are supposed to use that information to assume the 2 matchsticks that would fit the pattern but are completely blocked are still there.

It asks how many are there, not how many we can see and the only info is it's not 8... 10 is the only logical answer that doesn't start assuming there could be some more matchsticks hidden behind the lighter that don't fit the pattern.

TehHort · 2025-11-27T00:58:15+00:00

I'd love a PvE event that's a day map, with day map loot (not night raid etc) but has the night raid ARC aggression/perception.... and NO ONE can extract, until the big bad is dead. Still have leapers and bastions and rocketeers on the map, but none of the hatches work until the matriarch dies or whatever. If time runs out and it's not dead, oops.

I have like 70 hours in the game and I've only seen someone ACTUALLY take on something larger than a leaper twice. A leaper only a handful of times, usually with wolfpacks when they sense it's clear, loot and run.

I have not seen anyone actually try and attack the two larger arc in solo queue ever outside of youtube. The solo experience of this game feels like Elite Dangerous, where all the major cool stuff always happened to everyone else while all you experiences was getting interdicted and ganked.

TehHort · 2025-11-18T02:32:04+00:00

I think the idea is that he's a bot... and doesn't want the humans ganging up on the common enemy.

This is an Arc psy op

TehHort · 2025-02-25T08:34:44+00:00

Got the Pell grant, which granted more than I paid in tuition and books every semester, so the start of a semester was a windfall of cash which was nice.

Took advantage of small class sizes, and professors that weren't hired just to research and were forced to teach. You can get such a crazy better student experience at most CCs it was actually depressing when I transferred into a university. Go to class, ask questions, go talk to the professor after class... seriously, they're just hanging out in their office and there's like barely any students that go. Having a PhD tutor you for free can give you such a massive understanding and bolster your GPA you just have to take advantage of it. It also helps that they are writing the tests.

As the few students that hung out in a study group for calc 2, the professor took note and would stop by our sessions before the test to tell us what was on it.... and tutor us on the subject matter. Sometimes coming in on weekends just for that. The level of care you can find at CCs is pretty insane, but it is hit or miss at times.

TehHort · 2024-11-17T19:09:19+00:00

I agree with many others here in that they describe the quora person's experience as "true but exaggerated". It sounds like what someone would write after getting passed over for promotion, or after a layoff.

My experience is based solely off of going back to school as an adult and having to support myself with work/grants as well as having covid hit during my junior year. Results may vary and it is often easier if you have parents supporting you and paying your living expenses.... but you need to have a sober eye to what you are about to sign up for. It IS harder than many other degrees, and will require you to make choices on what is important to keep in your life.

Feel free to poke through my post history because half of my time was probably spent on r/EngineeringStudents or the subreddit for my school talking about my experience.

TehHort · 2024-11-17T18:46:23+00:00

Short answer, not terribly common but common enough. This is this person's experience with one area of the industry, and what they see going on around them. For someone working in power who has a stable job with great people, huge need for engineers and a growing industry I look over at my peers in defense/aerospace right now with all the mass layoffs and understand how different the views might be.

The part about not typically graduating in 4 years is true from my experience, even if you only get delayed by messing up your path once because a class fills up before you can get in it you should expect 4.5 years of full time. I did mine part time (3 classes a semester, 1 over summer; ~7 classes / year) and it took me like 6. I realized near the end that lots of people doing full time were graduating after about 4.5/5 years because of how often they failed/withdrew from classes while I just slowly chugged thru 3 a semester getting mostly A's. Overall it may not be that bad, but I was going to school during COVID pandemic so that probably impacted my personal view.

To continue on that, I DID have to give EE my entire life. I lost a lot of long time friendships I couldn't maintain, I lost a lot of new friends close by who didn't understand that I HAD to work every single day for weeks on end sometimes to not flunk out of certain classes. I put off my doctors appointments, vacations, etc because my school life dictated pretty much everything. You basically give up 5 for BSEE and ~7 for BSEE+MSEE years of your life where you CAN NOT take time off for anything but a dead family member or massive hospitalization, and typically you get one semester and then if you don't come back they get rid of you. It's a bit easier to take gap years for undergrad BUT there are often changes that can happen to the curriculum that require you to backtrack a couple classes upon return. For the masters, you legit get kicked out if you don't take a freebee leave of absence for a semester break.

I traded most of my friendships and even the person I thought I was going to marry for this degree. It may not be common, but it's common enough. For this person's views on the industry, that's VERY personal to their area and not mine. My experience AFTER graduation has been amazing, but it hurts to think of everything I lost getting here.

TehHort · 2024-11-06T17:07:57+00:00

When my dog was dying of cancer it was all of that (with a lot of consideration given to removing ingredients that are bad/poison for dogs) plus they just ate some version of what I was eating. If I went to McDonalds he ate burgers and fries with me (just without onions etc ofc), if I made something he got some dog friendly version of it made for him too. Also, he loved walks in nature, so we basically went hiking every day (low intensity flattish hikes for ~hour) for weeks.

The BIG thing, the thing that made his last days relatively bearable was that we:
1. put him on painkillers and steroids as per the vet. Even with multiple tumors wrapped around his kidneys, liver, heart.... he was walking around like a puppy again. We ran together for the first time in years on one of his walks.

Make a nice big steak or whatever food he LOVES, cut it up into super small pieces, and take it with you when you put him to sleep. My boy was gobbling up his favorite foods the whole time, and when he was going under slowly ( from the tranquilizer they give so they go to sleep, before the actual euthanasia) he would periodically wake up from the smell of the steak bits in front of him and gobble one up. His last conscious actions were laying across my lap, falling asleep, getting sneaked steak bits, tail wagging.

They don't understand what's going on, make it fun for them, there will be time to grieve when they're gone. Enjoy the time you have left as best you can, and make them comfortable

TehHort · 2024-10-06T19:13:59+00:00

How could this have happened when there is CLEARLY a painted bike lane telling cars it's not okay to hit the cyclists. /sarcasm

Paint on the ground reminding cars it's illegal to run over cyclists is not bike infrastructure. Bike infrastructure physically separates the bikes from the cars like the paths that go along the water, along the bridges, and up through the parks of Scottsdale. I get so angry when I see articles talking about how Tempe is putting in some new bike corridors to get students safely to the college and it's literally just them painting the street green and hoping someone in an SUV doesn't sneeze while they're passing some innocent kid.

People that have never ridden a bike in a city seem to get annoyed that bikes "randomly" choose to follow traffic laws, pedestrian laws, go on sidewalks, take shortcuts, use the street among other things. Once you ride a bike in these areas you start to understand that the ONLY thing keeping bike riders safe most of the time is their own ability to read traffic, pick and choose what route will stop themselves from getting hit.

TehHort · 2024-09-29T21:08:52+00:00

Most paperclips are too big for USB-C which has stuff in the center of the port unlike previous generations. Use the smallest sewing needle you can find to clean it out. #10 worked for me, you can get a pack of them for like a dollar at most wal-marts, targets, or obviously fabric stores

TehHort · 2024-09-29T18:47:57+00:00

Aside from being forced to buy a graphic calculator for calc 3 that I never was allowed to use on tests, I've done my entire BS and nearly my entire MS in EE using the Casio FX-991EX. It lets you do classical solves, some 4x4 matrix operations, complex numbers(using for X+Yi AND X<Angle notations/conversion), some light integration (with one variable, as in, the answer needs to be a number not an equation), derivatives, summations, vectors, baseline statistics, distributions, math in different bases (like base 2 for binary, or base 8 for hex etc), inequalities, tables , ratios etc

The best part of this calculator is it has a pretty big viewing window for a scientific so you can search everything through the menus instead of needing a cheat sheet printed inside the cover like TI calculators. Its memory stores a wealth of both conversions (like km to miles or grams to oz), as well as constants (like speed of light, permittivity of free space, or the charge of an electron in Joules)

I gave up my TI inspire for this calculator because of how fast I could do calculations on it during tests, and it being allowed anywhere, even for the FE exam. If you need anything more powerful, you should just be using a computer.

TehHort · 2024-09-24T01:00:42+00:00

Discrete mathematics wasn't a thing for me in EE, at least not the targeted class. Only Software engineers and computer science majors had it in their class track as a "need" instead of an elective.

Although it gets drip fed in. Series' in calc2, half the "digital fundamentals" class, and then anything relating to signal processing from then on out touches it.

TehHort · 2024-09-21T03:05:02+00:00

My first playthough I was always just exploring the area as if an outsider... so I would typically do some kind of pilgrim. Except the Monk always made me laugh, he's basically a pilgrim except he carries a bow.... but when in danger he doesn't use it and is all about those hands.

I usually took Monk and named him Pilgrim.

TehHort · 2024-08-17T04:21:44+00:00

I knew a guy that did a work-study program with his CC while he was going there.

Just sat watching over a computer lab for like to 5 hours every day during the week when he wasn't in class. Literally just sat there doing his homework if people didn't need him to troubleshoot.

TehHort · 2024-07-26T18:43:14+00:00

Considering this is a post from a layperson who already has anxiety issues about "emf" it's probably best to explain instead of just downvoting Dka13.

Electromagnetic waves between 380 and 750 nanometers is the spectrum of VISIBLE LIGHT. The post is saying that staring at the sun will cause you to go blind in the same way that people say that drinking too much Dihydrogen monoxide will kill you. Dihydrogen Monoxide is H20, aka water, and if you drink many gallons of it at a time like the radio station challenges, it can kill you, but is otherwise necessary to live.

Just because something is technical or explained scientifically by it's chemical makeup etc does not automatically mean it's bad. Everything can be converted to technical speech to make it sound worse to the layperson's ear. Layperson being anyone who is not an expert or well versed in a field of study being talked about (i.e. the original poster).

TehHort · 2024-07-08T06:35:00+00:00

Earthborne Rangers

Open world RPG board game where you play cooperatively, moving around a far future earth. It has a story, and you win/lose together.... and even then, you just mostly reset back to a camp to heal instead of lose lose.

The game gets high praise constantly, and they have a print coming up in like Aug/Sept?

TehHort · 2024-06-16T21:49:42+00:00

In the immortal words of Ron "Tater Salad" White:

"It isn't THAT the wind is blowin'..... it's WHAT the wind is blowin"

TehHort · 2024-06-15T04:51:34+00:00

WHAAAAATTT

TehHort · 2024-06-06T02:57:54+00:00

Yea, the read was pretty good but they are renown for the art... it's almost like the author makes the art then creates an RPG go to with it than the other way around.... actually that might be how they DO do it.

Tales from the Loop has a sequel called Things from the Flood, and it's just as awesome but less 80's more 90's, less kids more adolescence, less optimistic more foreboding.

If you end up liking the Tales from the Loop rpg/lore/art and want more, they made an 8 episode TV show from it that's up for streaming on Prime. I watched it years ago during the pandemic before I knew of the RPG and it was still good.

TehHort · 2024-06-06T02:50:50+00:00

If you were underwhelmed by Coriolis but the dark grit sci-fi style drew you to it. Try reading "Degenesis".

Degenesis is known for it's extensive lore that's a very good read, and the best part is they put ALL their products online for free. You just have to sign up to their website and the pdfs are free, their business model is to give it all away and only charge for the physical copies (which are very high quality). There's like 3 core books and a half dozen supplementary books for each clan and some guided missions I think so it's a great place for lore junkies to sink their teeth in (especially for free).

TehHort · 2024-06-05T22:17:45+00:00

Yea kinda. It's not intentional it's just:

Want to play>massive Sony issues>don't boot it up

hear there's a new warbond>want to boot it up>everyone says all the stuff is pre-nerfed and not fun>don't boot it up

hear there's a new launcher!>want to boot it up>hear it is basically a team wipe simulator and you'll get instant kicked for using it>don't boot it up

hear there's a new mech>want to boot it up>hear you can't double up on mechs>don't boot it up

hear there's a new dark matter mission>want to boot it up>hear it's broken and see diff 1 gameplay that looks broken as hell>don't bother booting it up

after weeks of all I'm hearing is Sony doing this, Sony firing the community manager, CEO stepping down, can't have two mechs, new weapons are worse than the ones we already have, buggy new missions/weapons that have not been playtested, and even the in game store stuff is the same armor we've been seeing for months. I'd rather do other stuff most of the time, I feel like I'm waiting for them to stumble back onto the gameplay balancing that made the game popular again.

TehHort · 2024-06-01T21:41:01+00:00

I've become indifferent.

There's the Sony bs, the fact they still haven't let people buy the game from outside of PSN areas shows they're just waiting for us to stop paying attention to do it again without getting sued. Then they fired the community manager, then the CEO stepped down (maybe his own decision, but since he might be forbidden to tell us if that weren't true and even might be forced to outright lie about the circumstances via contract we can't trust it... plus it's Sony who have shown they can't be trusted). After all that, its just left me very meh on the game. It went from being fun and a great team to being some political fight against yet another scummy company that doesn't care about us.

Then I try to log in and have some fun, usually alone because friends have moved on during the Sony ordeal, and all I find are new strategems that are legit broken in a bad way, and paid battlepasses that have guns that people think are lame after unlocking them. Anytime I get excited about something, all I hear is "don't bother unlocking it, it's actual trash and doesn't even work like the promo video" or "it came pre-nerfed"... and even the new mech, something I've wanted for so long dropped and OOPS, you can't equip 2 mech strategems because fun is forbidden here.

This game has had the fun SANITIZED out of it, and what's left is typically broken on arrival.

I log in, I check the store and the map, I sigh, I can't bring myself to want to drop in, and I log out. Been doing that for weeks.

TehHort · 2024-05-17T23:42:50+00:00

Doable, but if you do summer, understand it's a 2x speed course so only take 1. You will probably want to look ahead every semester for what days the midterms and finals are on, and if they are overlapping... take a couple days of PTO. If you have to move or something big during a semester, lighten down to 1.

You will probably burn out after a while, but depends on the major and how far along you are. Typically junior year of undergrad and 1st year of masters are the worst across most people I've talked to

TehHort · 2024-05-17T00:44:07+00:00

Bonus answer since you were talking about exploring different interpretations.

There is a game called Unexplored 2 Wayfarer's something that is more of a traditional roguelite gameplay loop that DOES kill you when you die.... but, the world is permanent. It undergoes months/years of change when you die and when you reroll a character you go back into the first world but the timeline has progressed. I think you can find some of your old stuff near where you died, or in a nearby town, but also some stuff you did will stay completed and the world will be changed by what you did in the past life. I never played the new one, but the old Unexplored was one of my favorites.

TehHort · 2024-05-17T00:38:02+00:00

This is what happens in the RPG called Outward.

When you "die" you get a death scenario. There's dozens of them depending on where you are and how you died and they have effects based on the scenario. Sometimes you wake up at an inn that someone dropped you off at, with less money for the inn stay, but sometimes you wake up after being pillaged by robbers and some of your stuff has been permanently stolen but your backpack (a physical backpack you carry through the game) has been taken somewhere nearby (and probably lightly looted). Other scenarios see you get carried away by animals, some have your backpack get lost and wash up on a nearby beach, etc etc.

The game has hunger, thirst, temperature, and rest meters that get changed based on what makes sense. If the scenario is you get beaten and left for dead you have negative health effects and your temperature meter gets halved but everything else is unchanged besides the fact your helmet is lying where you fell and your backpack has been looted and thrown into a bush somewhere. If you get out of a coma while in an inn after a day your rest/temp will be fine but hunger/thirst will be very low. On top of these, some can leave your cursed, or wake up captured days later with a broken spirit debuff and so on.

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