No i didnt present a paper! I am totally inspired to go that route though.
I understand now the pomp of the final year presentations, this was just as boring and just as exclusive. I was lucky (even though I believe that everything happens for a reason)I love the idea of zooming in on one component and discretizing it so much that it looks like a monumental task to overcome.
So a conference was held from the 14th to th 18th of March 2010 to bring together developments in the world on railway wheelsets. The discussions covered everything from wheels profiles, noises, crack developments, maintenance, NDT etc.,etc.
I guess it appealed to the academic in me. but the socialite in me shied in the presence of all the foreigners. i guess i found them somewhaqt intimidating...they are eons ahead of us in thought, developments, approach to solutions and personal development. nine out of ten of them are PhD candidates or higher( maybe because sending anyone with less of a qualification is too expensive,), most of them are old males.
Im have to wonder, why it takes old persons to present changes for a dynamic changing world. i appreciate the need for experience to assist in getting the best designs out , I also appreciate that without the oldies we we may just reinvent the wheel but i tend to wish for younger faces, more dynamic people , more innovative solutions.
definitely inspired to be the change i want to see. Im becoming more ambition my career than i think feasible. being invited to the 16th international wheelset congress has opened my eyes to a different part of the engineering environment.Something that is designed to challenge me.
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