Re: [NSW] Cityrail Millennium Train

["Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au>]

You are probably right doing only 4 years, as there seems  to be a large
number of unemployed or under employed mechanical engineers around at the
moment.

"Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Alex, Jill, Tim & Caroline Wardrop" <wardrop@ar.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Al wrote:
> > > You could be right there, but anyway it's not a structural engineer
you're
> > > after, but a mechanical, which I'm starting my final year in on
Monday,
> >
> > Which uni? From your other posts, it sounds like you're doing a 6 year
> > sandwich course, as at UTS. I am a just finished BE (Mech) at UNSW, and
> > have just begun a PhD there. As it happens, Clyde are partly sponsoring
> > my studies through the SPIRT program. It's probably not appropriate for
> > me to comment too much on the design or its stiffness, however there are
> > stringent requirements set out, and I assume that these are based on
> > some form of standards.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tim
>
> Newcastle.  Standard 4 year course, just that I took a year off to work,
plus
> every summer as well, which gives a grand total of 21 months work
experience
> so far, and still going.
>
> Good luck with the PhD, couldn't be bothered with another 4 years.
>
> Al
>
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