I
spent the summer working at GE Research with some of the most brainy/Educated
people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Here are some pictures of
Edison's Desk? Can you find out which his first desk really looked like?
This is the Edison Desk Blog
http://www.grcblog.com/ and I am now on the Blog
Tobias Redman at GE Blogg
More links to come.
Who are these Gentlemen?
This is my entry to the blog:
From Tobias Redman’s Desk
This year GE accepted one teacher “Extern” from the teaching profession, to work at the Research lab for the summer. I was lucky enough to land the job, and I am having a wonderful time here, with one primary focus, and many secondary. It has been very impressive to see the massive effort that is being made in many diverse fields. It is also reassuring to see the enormity of talent with a variety of diverse and commendable objectives. My lab, Energy and Propulsion, will really make a difference to future energy efficiency, and many Technologies that are being developed here that will lead to lowering of world greenhouse gas production.
One of the most interesting parts of being at GE has been the opportunity to review the range and direction that the company has been taking. This was one of the factors that helped me to choose GE from other highly Technical local Corporations. In particular I was drawn by GE’s commitment to alternative energy, specifically the Wind Power division. But that is only one of many other aspects of Ecomagination with the broad focus of energy, water and technology.
The main project that I am working on is Liquid Crystal Thermography, where Tests are made using a sheet of temperature sensitive Liquid Crystals, by photographing the color bands we can work out the thermal transfer rates for different subsystems in turbines, thereby optimizing design variables. There are many stages in this operation: 1) Calibrate the system. 2) Photograph the LC sheet at differing temperatures, also logging all sorts of other data such as pressure. 3) Transform the color data into temperature data using special programs that handle pictures and loads of very big math. 4) Now take this data with other number crunching programs and figure out where the parts are going to become hot and where they are going to stay cool!
At the start of my assignment I thought that it would be relatively straightforward, but of course its extremely complicated, but with help from lots of cooperative engineers, we are making considerable progress.
How does it look from the air: GOOGLE MAPS Compare to the Shenendehowa Campus