At one of my workplaces, we used high DC voltages (375V) for our instruments. To create a more consistent setup than an assorted 10 mixed power supplies, someone in the past had set up the racks. Each rack contains voltage conversion circuitry to step down to the labeled voltage, and a TCP server that be […]
At my first engineering co-op, we sometimes had unplanned outages. After an outage, there also was little communication on how long outages had lasted, what systems were affected, and what was being done to stop them from happening in the future. My manager felt that we could use some more transparency with these events, so […]
During my first engineering co-op I was tasked with the automation of various tasks, using the power of scripts. My first major project was for the training coordinator for the company, to try to take some of the tedious manual work off of her plate. The current method for on-boarding new hires was that a […]