Archive for January, 2007

Aeroelasticity — don’t want the wings to rip off

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Aeroelasticity is probably one of the most mathematically complex fields in aerospace. At least that’s how it seems to me in one of my last courses in RPI’s undergrad program. It’s complex because it combines three areas that are already hard enough: elasticity (basic static beam bending), dynamics (motion of a beam, etc), [...]

Storytelling

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

If there’s any one skill I admire, it’s storytelling. Think about your favorite people, I bet they are good storytellers. If you look at successful people, they are amazing storytellers. Some say Steve Jobs has a reality distortion field. I attribute that to skilled storytelling. Skilled storytellers make even the [...]