What have I learnt by this habit of posting daily?

Notice I call it a habit not a goal anymore. Doing the same thing for
this long had made it a habit. So what have I learnt from this.

Show up
Yes everyday I showed up. Took the laptop out and just started. Never
new in advance what I will write but just began. This created the
posts that you all are reading and hopefully gaining something.

So start showing up to whatever goal you have setup. If your aim is to
get good marks, then show up and stick to your routine. If you aim is
to learn catia, ansys etc. show up. Switch on the software and begin
tinkering. If you want a productive training, then show up everyday,
consistently.

Showing up is so simple yet how few times we use it. I have been
blogging on this blog since 2004 and this is the first year that I
have really taken an extra effort to be consitent in posting. So it
was big lesson for me.

As I said earlier, since lot of travel is involved in October, so
posting rate might suffer. But rest assured that I will be writing
everyday and posts will flash only when I have the opportunity to
connect to the Internet.

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Revision technique to boost your studies

Today learnt a great revision technique from one of my teammate in
office.

We are all attending 5 days training on some new technology and today
was the second day. Yesterday, we began at 8 and finished at 5 with
some good topics and hands on. Today morning he entered and he took
out a sheet of paper and rerun all the things that we did last day.

So how can you apply it in studying for aesi.

Take a paper, and before you begin to read new text, new topic or new
material. Write on the paper all the things that you have learnt the
previous day on the same subject. Ask questions on what you read and
answer them. No need to be clean, concise or correct, just write.
Write whatever you remember. Imagine the terms and get them on paper.
Run through the topics one by one.

Well that's it, once this is done, turn the paper down and get back to
study the new stuff.

There are 3 distinct advantage of this technique.

1. You poke your mind and exercise it to get active and retrive the
information it received earlier. Just by remembering and writing it
out you strengthen the ties.

2. This exercise at the start of your study session sets up the mood
to study further, to learn more and to dive deep.

3. The old things and topics that you bring forward by means of that
paper creates additional pegs that you can hook the new informations in.

Well I believe if you follow just this method, you are well ahead in
your studies. Try it!

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Everything else is just noise

"Everything else is just noise"

Read this beautiful quote and immediately loved it. Be worried and
concerned about your studies when you are in aesi. Read study and
write; that's what I want to tell you. Everything else is just noise.
Noise!!!

Learning a software, training, experiments with practical are all none
if you don't pass papers. Its no big deal if you are stuck in clearing
the papers. And for that you have to read, write and study.

Study hard and play. Don't worry about the distractions. Keep your
focus on passing AeSI with good marks and every thing else will follow.

So focus.

Two software skills to choose by an AeSI aerospace graduate

Here I am again telling you which software you can take up for your
skills and professional developments.

The tools I will suggest are not the onces I had enough experience nor
are those that I would have thought of when starting out just out of
AeSI. They are the suggestions from the experience and environment
that I have been for the last couple of years.

If you are interested in CAD, then shun catia, overlook solidworks,
take up unigraphics. That's the future. That's what aerospace industry
is using.

If you are interested in analysis, make ANSYS you vehicle of choice.
Start tinkering, and learning about it from today.

Well that's it nothing fancy. Not many choices, but just two specific
softwares to choose from.

Choose one today and begin devoting one hour each day on it for the
next two year, and you will not have to worry about job or career
ever! That's a promise.

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What's the secret of taking a great photograph?

What's the secret of taking a great photograph and why knowing that
will help you as an AeSI student and graduate.

The secret of getting a good photograph is to take a lot of them. The
more you take, the more are your chances of getting that perfect shot.
For some it will come at the 10th shot, or the 100th or beyond.

But what is important is taking shots. Same way the best way to learn
and perfect any cae software like catia, nastran, ansys etc is take a
lot of shot at them. Do them again and again and again and again.

Repeat a truss analysis, repeat a compresseor blade model. Don't just
stop but take action and take as many shot as you can.

The beauty about the digital camera is that you don't have to worry
about the reel, the developing. Same way, the cad and analysis tools
help you in giving you a virtual model or products, thus enabling you
to manipulate it to your hearts content.

So with minimum cost and fuss, you learn a lot. So when doing the next
session in ansys or catia, do become a photographer and take lots of
shots.

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Quit waiting for the right answer?

Are you waiting for the right answer? Well If you are then that's a
waste of time, my friend. In truth you will never ever get the right
answer.

The correct choice or the right answer is an illusion.

The faster you understand this the better you will be.

I have passed section A, which stream to choose for section B? There's
no right answer to it.

I passed AeSI, but I don't have 60%. Should I continue on or redo the
exams? There's no correct choice.

Should I go for higher studies or do I take a job? There's no right
answer.

Which field should I go, design or analysis? There's no right answer.

Which software tool should I take up, catia or solidworks? There's no
right answer!

At one point or the other you will face this or similar questions in
your jouney of AeSI, they will creep in. You will ponder over them,
ask many people, contact seniors for advice and each answer will
settle you deep into the question and you will search for the right
answer.

But let me tell you, there's no right answer. Do what you feel that is
correct at that time. That's the important thing. Staying in the
vortex of your questions won't take you anywhere. Just listen to heart
and follow it.

That's the best you can do instead of waiting for the right answer!

What are your thoughts on this, do comment.

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20 questions that you will be asked in any CAD interview

Be it catia, solidworks or unigraphics or any other CAD software these
are the list of questions that are usually asked in a CAD interview.

1. What is CAD?
2. What is catia?
3. What is the difference between save as and save?
4. What is loft?
5. Why fillets are used?
6. What is the command to rotate a model?
7. What is macro facility?
8. How to get cloud data points in the cad program?
9. What is the relation between dimensions and assembly?
10. What is the function of mirror feature?
11. How to add your own templates?
12. Do you know/ understand different views?
13. What is IGES?
14. Have you heard of STEP? What is it?
15. What are nurbs point?
16. Do you understand transformation?
17. What is a plane?
18. What is local axis and global axis?
19. Can you name some standard bolt sizes?
20. How to apply materials property to a cad model and get it's weight
mass?

To tell you the truth, I haven't attended many interviews related to
CAD, so most of the questions here are the questions that I have heard
from my friends.

Apart from this there are 101 questions that you can be asked in an
aerospace gas turbine interview. Click the following link to to find
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Getting into turbulence

Since January to this time of the year, I have fairly be in a laminar
flow, so to say, in terms of posting to this blog.

From Internet connection problems, to a blackout laptop. From being
with no projects to work, to teaming with projects, I have updated the
site consistently. But now in October, I have a lot of travel in my
calendar and Posting will enter the world of turbulence. I expect few
delays, hiccups.

So this post is just a warning that posting to the blog might be
irregular in October. . Though I am making plans to mitigate those.
But time will tell.

Cheers.

Ps: For those who do remember the Ebook I promised. Well as my laptop
tanked, so it stalled the launch of that Ebook. Maybe I'll link and
upload the free after aesi- career guide after aesi ebook in October.
Wait and watch.

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that you think aesi is about. I promise, you will find something useful.

Three steps to sucessful career

Recently I read an article titled three steps to a joke and that let
me wonder on the question of what are steps for a successful career.

Well here's my answer?

Communication skills.
Technical skills aside, single most important skill that one should
have, acquire or cultivate is communication skills. This is the one
skill that will enable you to progress in your career. Technical
skills gives you authority but it's the communication skills that
spread the infuence and this is first skill that you must develop
before you move on to any another.

Curiosity and experiment.
Being curious, being open to experimenting. Testing your theory is the
next skill that you should cultivate. Being good at technical skill
and just knowing it bare minimum won't be enough. Be curious, ask
questions. Answer them with experiments. It's more than a skill but an
attitude that you need to cultivate!

Solve problems.
What good is an atiitude or skill if you aren't solving problems.
Solve problems, yours or of peoples around you. This is the only and
THE only way to accelerate your skills. Problems are the grindstones
of honing your skills, technical or otherwise. So look from problems,
annoyance, in and around yourself and solve them.

As I said, these are my 3 steps to a successful career. What's yours?
I am curious. Pitch in your comments.

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Put the bloody weapon down!

Yes that's what an outsider from aesi will tell you.

Put the bloody weapon down?

If you don't respect your degree, your education and you talk about it
with that attitude, you are carrying a weapon pointed towards
yourself, towards your progress, and towards your career!!

This comes off when you are in an interview or when you are explaining
your education. If you don't respect the hard work you did, you are
holding a weapon in the path of your sucess. So put the bloody weapon
down!

Respect your degree. Know you are among the best!

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