Engines parts everywhere!
The place looks like a rebuilders delivery truck vomited all over our benches.
The engines must go back together and spin to finish the section. We TELL the students we come in at night and randomly swap small parts around, just to keep it interesting.
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Is that Stevens College?
Interesting that you know of them.
Nope, we are not Stevens. They are a post secondary trade school. We are a career and tech school that does mostly high school students.
The school I teach at is only minutes away from Stevens.
We are doing precision measuring right now, not engine building. Our curriculum does not include engine building. We are not supposed to instruct in engine building. We are doing precision measuring..... we just store all our measuring examples inside engines.
That means the students have to take the engines apart to get at the measuring examples, then put them back together again when they are done the work. Naturally we must keep our resources in good condition, so we make sure they know how to put the engines together correctly.
hey.. I was a gearhead in high school. I know these things :-)
I'll be honest. . I really had to work hard with the airplane system stuff. It did not come easy for me as I don't have the background. I got busted by a teacher for reading car magazines behind my history book in 9th grade. I wanted to take auto shop so bad, but they wouldn't let me, and I was too much the quiet one to make a fuss about it.
When I attended my first airline ground school, I was literally up until 3 every morning, drawing the electrical and pneumatic and hydraulic systems out on paper napkins, over and over, trying to make sense of something that looked like hieroglyphics to me.
Of all the things I've achieved, I think the proudest thing I've done, was to become a FAA Pilot examiner on a huge transport plane, and actually TEST people, TEACH people on these systems, the systems that I couldn't spell without hooked on phonics 5 years previously. I was 28 years old.
Piece of cake for people like you. . but for this kid, one of my quietly "thank you" moments.
In todays world, your life might have taken a very different track.
Or maybe not.
You would certainly have had the chance at an automotive class, at the very least. This might have meant a career behind the wrench.
Then again, Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics recruits students at my class every year. I don't think they ever actually got one, but I encourage the students to strongly consider it.
Scully, some people are going to have interesting lives no matter what the do.
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