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I had a
I had quite a rounded experience
at the University of Oklahoma because I was
I paid for a portion of my education
so I had a job
I was in a fraternity
and i went to then university's college of engineering
So there were 3 or 4
different areas of friendships and relationships that I had
the engineering relationships were certainly the most serious
because that's where you
had to go study and learn
I developed great friendships in all the different areanas
both at work, in the fraternity
and at the college of engineering.
and interestingly my friendships at the fraternity were the ones that
continued for the first few years
out of college
but the ones out of engineering
were the ones that have remained solid over the years
as I've met other people that are from the university and out of the engineering department,
they've become very good
friends, business friends
and personal friends with those that graduated form the University of Oklahoma in engineering.
What engineering taught me was just a fundamental
analytical ability
to ask those questions
don't shy away from the complicated questions
some things may be so complex that you're scared of them,
but as you just piece them our in individual chunks, and address them one at a time, just like living life,
you know, one day at a time sometimes,
one little problem at a time,
and ultimately you get to a pretty good solution
and then realizing too that engineering
comes up with different solutions sometimes, and being open-minded enough to say
Joe's solution over here may be just as good if not better than mine. So how do I adapt
mine or his, or how do I put them together
and work to even a better solution.
I would say
don't get caught up
and stressed out
at about whether you know what we're going to in life or not.
you're studying a certain curriculum
You're studying a certain engineering
degree perhaps.
In my case, I wasn't really sure what a chemical engineer did until
I graduated and started interviewing for jobs.
Oddly enough,
we'd never been through the daily rigors of what an engineer is all about.
We know how to work some of the problems they were faced with, but we weren't faces with true engineering work
you'll learn most of what you do as an engineer after you get out because it's the application
of those
concepts and those
technical
capabilities. The application of that is what's going to help you become
a wonderful engineer
I've got several memories not only from work and the fraternity,
but crazy
remembrances this is from university too. My senior year
we had our capstone project that we had
our final senior project that we had to do
and there were three was working on our project and we were
supposed to
gassify coal into natural gas, and that was our project
we had a build this
facility that would actually burn the coal
to a hot enough temperature to gassify
into natural gas, there were a lot of other components to it and formulas we had to go through
but we managed
to get an A in the course because we got the temperature so high the professor told us to
shut it down before we burned something up, and we we got an A because we fundamentally did it right,
we just didn't quite have the control measures on it that we probably should have.