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The students are lucky 
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Lucky students! Whether or not they know it is a very different story. Hopefully you don't end up with a classroom of idiots.
Congratulations and good luck to you!
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What is the class, inquisitive minds want to know!
Dave.
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PGE 379/383: Oil & Gas Field Surveillance
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Sounds very interesting. Hope this is successful, i.e. that your students learn something that they can use other than a checkbox on the way to a diploma.
Dave.
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Hopefully I'll be able to share my experience. This is an upper division elective or graduate level class.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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That's great, Walt!
It the class in a subject you actually know, or will you be winging it, per usual? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's my specialty, Roger. I've been working in that sort of thing since 1975. Actually, I'm looking forward to the class. I've been involved in training in the industry for many years, but this is the first university class.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Cool!
I tried to teach Physics in our local college, but the school's response was, "Are you kidding? How about teaching arithmetic, instead?" My goal was to create a comprehensive electrical/electronic program, but without the basics - physics, chemistry and math - it can't be taught. It turns out that what passes for college here is what we used to call High School when I was growing up. And what they learn in High School, if anything, we knew in 6th grade. Tragic...
By Oil & Gas field surveillance, I assume you mean measurement and monitoring, also a subset of my former specialty. Definitely an interesting field of study. Of course, now days, I'd simply use a good scope and a high powered rifle.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Basically it's a course about how to keep an eye on oil field performance and figure out what to fix, when. It covers decision making, risk analysis, value of information, measurement precision and accuracy, big data organization and processing, estimation in the face of uncertainty, and lots of practical stuff. The course requires a background in reservoir and production engineering and it's basically about combining multiple disciplines and applying the results.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Look at the bright side - this is an opportunity to corrupt young minds and reduce the competition for the rest of us old farts.
Software Zen: delete this;
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 indeed.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Actually I started out my mentoring sessions by saying in effect: "Look, you're not here to help me, because I don't need your help. You're here to replace me. The last thing I want when I'm retired and sitting under a tree fishing, is for you to call and ask me what to do."
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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You forgot the final sentence: "In case you do, my post-retirement rates start at $200/hr." 
Software Zen: delete this;
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You're joking, right? I'd charge a lot more than that!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Key phrase: "start at".
Software Zen: delete this;
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Congratulations!
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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If it's s programming class, remember to stick to the tradition of the all educational establishments of the world, from the lowest to the greatest -- teach them anything except programming.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No programming. It's a practical engineering class.
For me, programming is a tool in my toolbox, not a career.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
modified 20-Jul-14 12:04pm.
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That sounds like more fun that teaching programming -- with the added bonus that you can back everything up with Physics, and don't have to delve into "philosophy".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I sometimes RDC over to my home machine and listen to mp3's from where ever I am. The quality from Windows player is excellent but audio from web sites (Pandora), whether they it be IE, Firefox or even Chrome is terrible (also via RDC). I have to say with Windows player it is all or nothing. Usually great audio from windows player with only an 1 or 2 second outage every few minutes. But with the browsers you get degradation to what is virtually static.
Oh to have the same audio quality from browser players as windows players over RDC. 
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A shot in the air...
Try to disable firewall and antivirus and see. I've seen that my films work better this way when they are seen on my tv from dlna.
Good luck!
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Now I understand why they get injured out of the blue. Clickity[^]
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pile of trash[^]
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Out of trash? go figure. It is good though!
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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