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How hands-on is Electrical Engineering?
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[QUOTE="phinds, post: 6028225, member: 310841"] This thread really got me to reminiscing about my early EE days. This is a Sounding Rocket telemetry system that I helped design at GSFC in the late 60's. I designed several of the modules, prototyped them, tested them, reworked them, tested, reworked,tested, reworked, (... rinse and repeat) and then we had them fabricated by an outside contractor. In those days ASICs weren't even on anyones drawing board. We were just using TTL logic chips and numerous curse words. There were ultimately several different kinds of modules that could go in this modular configuration depending on what kind of output the scientific instruments produced. I got to work with scientists from all around the country and a few from foreign countries as well. [ATTACH=full]228178[/ATTACH] I also designed much of the ground telemetry system used to receive and record the signals this encoder produced. What was really fun was going on the launch trips to Wallops Island and White Sands, NY. Here's me on one of my earliest trips and the rocket we shot off (that had one of the telemetry systems on board). I'm the skinny guy on the right (GADS I wish I were still that skinny) [ATTACH=full]228180[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]228179[/ATTACH] So anyway [USER=648156]@Steven_Scott[/USER], yeah, you can be hands on :smile: [/QUOTE]
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