Blade Nomenclature Explained.

When I was in AeSI, I had hard time remembering the nomenclature of a gas turbine engine blade. It's very similar terminology and similar sounding angle names always confused me.

When I entered the industry, I found blade is essential and I can't escape it. So I decided to finally learn about it.

A week back, I revisited the topic and with animated gif's getting more common, I decided to make an animated gif to teach anyone or everyone interested in blade nomenclature.

So If you are interested in learning about the blade nomenclature, please visit this page.

Atoms of the aerospace industry!!

http://t.co/41dX5GFdlg

It's worth a visit, just to watch the animated blade aerofoil explain its various angles!

No Guarantees

There are no guarantees in life, but the odds are that if you can take care of these 3 things in your life, the rest will take care of itself.

1. Be good at one thing. The 'thing' doesn't matter. What matters is that you are better at one thing than anybody else. Build that skill. Hone it so much that its shines through even in dark. Being good at one thing and knowing about it will inject confidence.

2. Be a marketeer. Marketing is not a skill only needed by a corporation. You, as an individual, need it more. To market yourself. To market your creations. To showcase your work. To articulate and defend your thoughts. Even Apple's iPhone needs marketing. So cultivate marketing skills!

3. Be the salt. Ask any chef, or cook, whatever dish he or she prepares if there isn't salt, it isn't anything. Salt adds value. It completes the flavor. Same way aim to add value in whatever you do. Be it work, study, or any assignment. The more value you add, the more valuable you become.


An update:
In a weeks time, I am putting up something that will be useful for all AeSI students currently in section B or on the verge of training. So stay tuned.

All members are requested to..... update from AeSI

Update from AeSI.

During the proceedings of 64th AGM of AeSI, it has been desired that the notices to members be sent by email. Therefore, we are in the process of updating the personal particulars or our members in our record for correct and prompt communication with them.

All members are requested to kindly furnish the following information/particulars to aerosocmember@gmail.com

1. Full Name
2. Membership number
3. Email id
4. Address
5. Telephone
a) Landline
        b) mobile
6. Current occupation
a) Company Name
b) Designation
c) Address

Stress Analyst Requirements and 3 point checklist.

If you match this requirements, send your resumes to the following email. sukhbinder.singh+myaesi@gmail.com


Before you send your resume, please run through this 3 point checklist.
1. Is your resume in presentable form. No modification needed what so ever.
2. Is your profile matching with the requirement?
3. Are you serious about this job?

If you have responded no to any of this question, your CV is already rejected, if not, shoot your CV now.

Experience       :  3yrs – 10yrs

Qualification    :  B.E / M.E in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering

Location           :  Bangalore

Position            :  Stress Analyst
Job Code           :  HC/JC/3035/12

 

Job Description :

 

-       Experience in aerospace industry, with good structural stress analysis experience, preferably with airframe structures

-       Good awareness on Airframe/ Nacelle components and programs including an understanding of basic load conditions and load paths.

-       Performs structural analysis of a complex nature using conventional hand calculation and/ or computational analysis on Metallics and/ or Composites

-       Strong application of engineering principles and theories in structural analysis

-       Experience/ Exposure to composites (Laminates and Sandwich Panels)

-       Very good knowledge of NASTRAN/PATRAN and Hypermesh

-       Working knowledge of Catia V5

-       Highly proficient in MS Office Tools

-       Good analytical and problem-solving skills

-       Effective communication and interpersonal skills

Send a Resume But Don't Insult.

I am sure, 15 year ago, Sam was a smart boy.

He knew that he won't get the bat he wants to buy if he just blurts out the demand when his dad, tired from work, comes home. He knew he had to be patient, observe and judge his dad's mood. He had to be obedient and make sure he is on his best behaviour before the demand is blurted out to dad.

He was smart to engage his mother and persude her to be on her side, to push for him. And he knew if he played his timing right, dad will buy the bat for him.

Now 15 years hence, where is this common sense gone? When someone informs you that there is a requirement for a graduate of avionics, you don't think and just shoot that resume sitting on the desktop without a thought.

Many a resumes go unnoticed and uncalled for just because of this unprofessional approach. What message does this convey? Technically competent guy but such utter lack of professionalism in sending resume.

If you are referred to send a resume, at least think of the person who is receiving it, to forward to his or her HR department. Can your resume can be forwarded just as you presented? Does it has the relevance to match the requirement, and the format and content to stand out?

If this were happening 5 years back, when internet was expensive and uncommon, and only resume writing advice was available in some obscure magazine article or some books, then that was a different matter. But now when the world is connected, a resume is just a google search away and you have the means to research the company you are applying for, a thoughtless resume is no longer acceptable. Its an insult.

So my advice to Sam, Please bring back your smartness. You knew how to get that bat from your dad. Apply the same common sense to get that interview call.

Here's some advice on crafting a resume or Sending a proper resume. If you are graduating in near future, please read this few articles. They will serve you well.

One day Workshop on Applicatio​n of Formal Methods in Aircraft Industry !!!!

Dear all,

Greetings for the day!!!!

Please note that Aerospace Electronics and Systems Division of CSIR-NAL (National Aerospace Laboratories) is organizing one day workshop on Application of Formal Methods in Aircraft Industry.

Date: 8 April, 2013

Venue: S R Valluri Auditorium , Kodihalli Campus, CSIR-NAL, Bangalore.

Contact Person

Ms.Bhanumathi K S
Phone: 25086796

Mob:95350 92589
Email: bhanumathi@nal.res.in

Ms. Manju Nanda

Phone: 25086523

Mob:98457 75062
Email: manjun@nal.res.in

For more details and to register for this workshop, please visit http://goo.gl/J0MCr

Cheers !!!!

AeSI students Vs Car Battery !!!

Recently I have posted a famous quote at Facebook. It says, "A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership."

During the tea break in office, I was trying to relate salesman with an AeSI student. I finally came to a conclusion that both of them have lots of similarities. For example : I have seen many students getting frustrated after the result. It is similar like a car's battery getting discharged.

For a while treat yourself as the owner of a brand new BWM and tell me
- Will your BMW be BMW without the charged battery ?

But if battery is not charged that doesn't mean you can sale your BWM i.e. you can lose patience that you can never clear AeSI. The only thing is there is a need to charge the battery i.e. there is a need of self-motivation.

I may be wrong but I request all of you to motivate their follow students.

Thanks

Constraints and AeSI study tip

Great designs always have constraints. In many ways, design is defined by constraints and using them elegantly.

Designing a study schedule is the same. If your schedule is to study every available time between "I wake up and go back to sleep", then you aren't doing it right.

The right way of designing your study schedule is putting constraints. Constraints as to when to study and what to study.


Constraints makes life easy and more fun.

When you know you have constraint of not studying on Sundays. You will study more attentively on other days.

You will study more intently if you know next time you will get to study this subject is after 3 days.

Constraints and following them methodically can make things easy. Sounds counter intuitive. Try it.

Constraints is the difference between leading a stress free student life and leading a life in a pressure cooker.

More study tips at http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=study

What You DON’T Know Can Hurt You: What you NEED to know about MISRA C:2012

Dear all,

Greetings for the day !!!!

If you’re developing safety-critical applications, you can’t afford to take chances. But commercial pressures don’t go away just because you’re diligent. The latest version of the MISRA standard lets you take advantage of more C features while helping you mitigate risk for safety-critical automotive, medical, industrial or mil/aero applications.

 

Anyone developing software with the potential to put lives at risk has an obligation to take every reasonable step to ensure that the work is sound. Adhering to standards is one key step in that process, and MISRA is the internationally recognised foundation for best coding practises. But features of the language that are designed to increase application performance, developer productivity and implementation flexibility are often just the features that the standard disallows. MISRA C:2012 changes the game.

 

Many of the Aerospace companies use MISRA Coding Guidlines and Henceforth I'm sure Avionics students would like to know more about new standard’s release.  

 

Following immediately on the heels of the new standard’s release, Chris Tapp, chairman of the MISRA C++ Committee, member of the MISRA C Working Group and one of the authors of MISRA C:2012, will tell you what you need to know:

 

What will you learn?

How the new standard can help you make better decisions about the use of popular programming language features

How MISRA C:2012 provides backwards compatibility to protect legacy code

How the introduction of “decidable and undecideable” proscriptive rules will help focus your test efforts

The effect of introducing support for C99 on the MISRA C:2012 standard

Date : February 26, 2013
Registration Link for Live Broadcast : http://goo.gl/SFgTA

Note : If live broadcast time does not suit your schedule - register anyway and you will be notified once the archived session becomes available (about 48 hours after the live webinar).

At last, Best Wishes for all who are waiting for the result of Associate Membership Examination of The Aeronautical Society of India.

Cheers !!!!

11 Rules of Bill Gates that you will not learn in school

Got an email from a Friend. Instantly liked it and it deserves a post here for some of the rules. Thanks Ajay!

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven (11) things they did not and will not learn in school.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were: So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room..

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. *This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. *Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.


Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, and they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill
-AT