[383-389] The professor for material science is actually brand new. He has never taught. He has been in industry for the past 20 years. And so, this is his first time teaching, at my institution or anywhere. I really like that class, because I’m going into mechanical engineering. So, his teaching style, it’s kind of like starting over, because he doesn’t know us. But he’s actually done an incredible job of relating this to the real world and to our specific areas of study as well. We were talking about strain and stress and field strength and how things break, under either tension or compression or tension … I forget. Anyway.
[390-395] So, we talked about real life examples of where this was a problem with the Titanic or the shuttle that went down upon re-entry. So, they went up, I forgot what that was called, and then, when they came back down, it exploded. And just a number of other examples. He worked in aerospace, so that’s why he uses those examples. So, a lot of his examples have to do with spaceships and planes and that kind of stuff. Spaceships, sorry, shuttles and those kinds of things. Spaceships are not real. But, anyway.
[396-404] So, he’ll bring up an example of how that happened in real life. Then, we get to ask questions about that and go into detail of, okay, so, what is the exact process of why this failed. Because he’s worked in industry for so long, he’s done a great job of relating what we’re learning in our textbook to real world examples. And that’s something we have definitely been looking for, because it’s really hard to learn about things over and over again. It doesn’t feel useless, but it’s just hard to apply it when you have not been in industry. And it’s nice to know that these things do have real world applications for like when we will use this later on.