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I am thinking of building a Stirling engine and am debating between a gamma type and beta type. Any advice on which type I should go for, and what the advantages/disadvantages to each is? Thanks

This is quite true. Many SRO's/former SRO's I have met came right out of the navy, no college. That's $100k+ without any debt. Not bad, if you are willing to do the time in service first.

I understand the coast guard is a military force as well. I have recently been looking into these services (Air Force, Coast Guard) as well as Public Health Service. I know each has it's own risks, but many civilian jobs do as well. As in any situation, I'm trying to inform myself as well as...

While the topic is up, I guess I will throw it out there...what about the Coast Guard? This is something else I also considered for a part time thing...though I wonder what an EE would do in the Coast Guard...

I was planning to just work as a EE in the Power or Electronics areas. I was even considering going as an enlistee as some of their job functions seem interesting. From my understanding of the Air National Guard, you work with your unit. So if I were to be in a unit whose primary focus is...

In America, engineers get a "Bachelor of Science", which is specific to the subject, examples include: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, etc...

I understand that there is a possibility, but I was thinking more in terms of probability, seeing as I am an Electrical Engineer (what would an EE do in combat?) and that I would be part time (wouldn't the full time guys be sent first?)

As a recent EE grad from one of the top schools in the US, here is what I have seen regarding mechatronics: At my school, there were many EE's (and some CompE's) who focussed on robotics/mechatronics. All EE's are required to take Signal Processing at the school, but for those focusing on...

I posted before when I was considering a career in the Navy as a Nuclear Propulsion officer. Though I have not fully thrown the idea out, I landed a civilian job in the nuclear industry. I was looking into the Air Force Reserve or Air National Guard, and was wondering how it would actually...

Yea, I just want to make sure I give it a fair chance before I discard the idea. It's interesting because it seems that one can have the same job (say, reactor engineer guys) as a civilian or in navy (knolls atomic lab guys vs. navy counterparts...both go to power school and do similar, if...

Does anyone know a good way to check if a given set of vectors (assume we just know we have a set, not their values) is linearly dependent or linearly independent without a calculator? Ex: Given a set of n-dimensional vectors, say, vector1, vector2, and vector3, how would one determine if these...

Hmm. Just to make sure I follow: So to define what "eigenvalue" and "eigenvector" are, given a square matrix A, the relationship A.v= λv can exist. In this relationship, "v"is an eigenvector of A, and "λ" is an eigenvalue corresponding to that eigenvector. Taking the inverse of a matrix...

I figured that if I could survive Electrical Engineering at one of the top undergrad programs in the US, I should be able to survive Nuclear Power School. Not saying it will be easy, but I think I have a decent shot provided I want to work for it. I have a few friends who were in the Navy...

Given a square matrix, if an eigenvalue is zero, is the matrix invertible? I am inclined to say it will not be invertible, since if one were to do singular value decomposition of a matrix, we would have a diagonal matrix as part of the decomposition, and this diagonal matrix would have 0 as an...

Everyone seems to be indicating that the submarine position is better than the carrier one. Why is that? Psychologically the carrier seems "safer", it seems like if the submarine gets messed up, there is nowhere to go.