Recent content by Patrick_Nth

So from what I've seen for some grad schools, you are offered 2 or 3 different pathways to obtain the M.S. in ______ Engineering discipline (in my case, Electrical). A class-only option where you complete X units before you are awarded your degree. A comprehensive exam option where you...

Current physics senior at UCLA. Feel free to ask/PM any questions.

I'm about to finish a Physics BS and head off to an MSEE program, and I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. For the love of all that is right in this world, APPLY FOR THOSE INTERNSHIPS/REUs. I spent my entire first year here (UCLA) undeclared, thinking I wanted to go into engineering because it...

How well do you know Matlab? :wink:

Overall, it's pretty decent. If you were eyeing plasma or condensed matter, I'd give it a look. If you haven't decided on a concentration yet, that's okay too. There is a fair amount of freedom simply because the number of upper-division classes is somewhat small (I could get away with only...

4th year undergraduate at UCLA for Physics

I feel kind of the same way about Physics right now. I like E&M, and I used to really enjoy plasma, because (selfishly enough), I felt like it was "mine", since everyone else I knew was busy enjoying quantum or astronomy here. However, after my REU this summer, I feel less motivated to continue...

Currently in the middle of planning it now. Unfortunately, I've done a pathetic job of trying to narrow down on a single engineering topic (photonics (EE), controls (EE or MechE), plasma (from either side), MEMS). I don't really have much preparation in the way of it yet, but two people in...

Would you be able to comment on how easy/difficult it would be to show some sort of competency in programming if one were applying with another technical Masters' degree (EE and Mech. E in particular)?

As the topic asks, I'm wondering how experimentalists (specifically in Physics) market themselves to potential employers. I can see some theory/computational people listing programming skills on their resume if they've worked with simulations or modeling, but I want to know what experimentalists...

Rejected: Northwestern MRSEC Berkeley COINS Cal SUPERB-CSIS DoE SULI University of Oregon Materials Science REU Wooster Physics REU UNLV REU SRI International REU Waiting: SIU Carbondale Cornell Materials Science Accepted: PPPL NUF REU @ General Atomics UCLA Applied Math REU...

I'm in an abstract linear algebra course right now, and the prof has explicitly stated that we are allowed to have a supplementary text for practice, but most of the HW would be written by him. With that said, I am trying to pick one of the 3 following: An international edition of Linear...

For a parallel-plate capacitor, you can write the potential difference across the plates as V = E*d with as the potential difference, E as the electric field, and d as the separation distance. You can rearrange for E E = V/d If you look at V, we can relate it to the capacitance, C, by the...

Junior in Physics. Linear Algebra - Friedberg Intro to Quantum Mechanics - Griffiths 2nd Quarter E&M - Griffiths and maybe a weekly seminar: What students need to know about careers in engineering.

We had guest speakers every so often, some of who were from the Physics & Astro Dept. and some from other Depts. (like a Chem prof at our school who was talking about methane hydrate and alternative energy) Our meetings are only once a week and they're late enough in the day to the point...