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The Career Center is kicking off the fall semester with several engineering career fairs. Beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 6, there will be consecutive events for engineering majors throughout the week.

On Tuesday, the Engineering Honors Career Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in rooms 297 to 299 at the Zachry Engineering Education Complex.

On Wednesday, Sept. 7 and Thursday, Sept. 8, the Engineering Career Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ford Hall of Champions, located at Kyle Field. The Student Engineers Council, or SEC, sponsors both days of the event. During those same days, the Industrial & Systems Engineering Career Fair will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Memorial Student Center, or MSC, in room 2400. The event is sponsored by the Institute of Industrial & System Engineers, or IISE, at Texas A&M.

All attendees of the events are required to wear business casual attire, but business professional attire is recommended. According to SEC members, attendees are encouraged to bring multiple printed copies of their updated resume for recruiters.

The SEC is sponsoring an additional event for those unable to attend the other career fairs.

A virtual Engineering Career Fair which will be held on Friday, Sept. 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Career Fair Plus platform. Pre-registration for the event is required. Those interested in attending should visit the Career Fair section of the A&M Career Center website for further instructions on registering for a virtual event.

The Engineering Career Fair, sponsored by the SEC, is open to all engineering students. Civil engineer senior and SEC Vice President of External Affairs highly encourages freshmen to participate in the event.

We encourage freshmen to come out and get networking experience with the recruiters, Borawski said.

Borawski, who also serves as the co-chair of the career fair, emphasized the importance of establishing networks and improving communication skills.

Every year, were looking to improve the student-recruiter interactions that we have, Borawski said.

This years Engineering Career Fair will be the second largest fair the SEC has ever hosted with over 10,000 attendees expected, Borawski said. There will be over 500 companies looking for potential candidates to hire for open job positions and internships.

If students are planning to attend one of the SEC fairs, Borawski recommends students to plan which company booths they wish to speak with. A master list of all of the companies and booth locations can be found on their website.

A&M students are some of the best in the nation, and to be able to set them up for success in future career endeavors is our goal, Borawski said. There is such a high demand for A&M engineering students. I hope students would realize the potential that they have and be confident of their ability as [engineers].

General engineering freshman Stefan Salaices plans on attending the career fair for honors students. He plans on specializing in aerospace or mechanical engineering.

Im considering what opportunities I could do with [both], Salaices said.You get the opportunity to explore different [careers] and then set your eyes on one.

Although he is heavily interested in specializing in aerospace or mechanical engineering, Salaices said he wants to remain open-minded to other possibilities like pursuing the field of artificial intelligence, or AI.

Biomedical engineer junior Eleanor McLeod, SEC career fair co-chair, said she encourages all attendees to be confident and prepared.

McLeod said she recommends attendees prepare and practice their elevator pitch, or a one-minute spiel where they can brag about themselves.

The career fair is crucial for the transition from [being a] student to the real world, McLeod said.

McLeod and Borawski both expanded on all of the work that goes into planning and executing each career fair and said the events sponsored by student organizations are volunteer based. McLeod and Borawski said there was a lot of work and time their organizations members put into organizing the SEC events.

You see students get excited and explore jobs. It means a lot, McLeod said.

Borawski and McLeod said they are looking forward to seeing all of the attendees at the event and hope they find great success as engineers.

Were all smart. Were all Aggie engineers, and that says enough in itself, McLeod said.

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The Yenko name may be most commonly associated with classic Camaros, but in recent times it's been slapped on modern Chevys, including Silverado pickup trucks.

That's thanks to Specialty Vehicle Engineering (SVE) of Toms River, New Jersey, which owns the rights to the Yenko trademark and uses it for its own array of tuned vehicles. The latest is the 2023 Yenko/SC Tahoe and 2023 Yenko/SC Suburban.

The SUVs can be ordered with either the 5.3-liter V-8 or 6.2-liter V-8 offered from the factory, and with rear- or four-wheel drive. The Yenko/SC treatment sees the engines supercharged to the tune of 700 hp for the 5.3-liter V-8 and 800 hp for the 6.2-liter V-8. Both versions make more power than Cadillac's new Escalade-V.

The supercharger is an in-house design, and is coupled with a blueprinted aluminum engine block, forged aluminum pistons, upgraded cylinder heads, and a high-flow stainless steel exhaust system.

2023 Yenko/SC Tahoe

SVE also adds an assortment of chassis upgrades to help ensure owners can make the most of the extra power. Yenko-badged Brembo 6-piston calipers with vented rotors feature at the front axle, housed within standard 22-inch wheels wrapped in Nitto tires. A new sway bar and bushings at the rear help to get the power to the ground during strong acceleration.

The price of the packages is $67,995 for the 700-hp version and $69,995 for the 800-hp version, plus the cost of the donor vehicle.

An available $4,495 sport suspension lowers the SUVs by 2.0 inches front and 3.0 inches rear and includes upgraded shocks. SUVs with adaptive suspension can be fitted with a separate $995 lowering kit that drops the front and rear by an equal 2.0 inches.

Both SUVs also feature a graphics package and a custom front grille and fascia.

SVE offers a range of additional options for buyers to further personalize their vehicles. These include a $2,995 leather seat trim package, $1,195 for a painted supercharger or painted brake calipers, $3,495 for retractable side steps, $495 for a custom color for the side stripes, a $4,495 body color paint package, and a $3,495 black-out trim package.

The SUVs are available to order at Chevy dealerships and only 50 examples of each will be built for the 2023 model year.

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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (Wiley, 2021) is an unusual book by a man who I imagine is charismatic in person, Charles Marohn. BikePortland readers who are not already familiar with Marohn will have probably come across the word he coined over a decade ago, stroad.

Marohn is the founder of Strong Towns, a movement that advocates for cities of all sizes to be safe, livable and inviting, and the concept of a stroad is central to his philosophy, kind of like how some branches of Christianity require a devil.

If I keep reaching for religious terms its because the book has a moral undercurrentalmost a quest for compassionthat both gives his criticism of the engineering profession its outrage, but also an overall tone of poignancy to his writing.

You could write this entire book without leaving this city.

Stroad is the nemesis, but roads and streetsand understanding the difference between the twoare the pillars of Marohns vision. A road is a high-speed connection between two places, and a street is a platform for building community wealth. (The second chapter of the book is titled The Difference Between a Road and a Street, thats how fundamental the concept is to him.)

Urban planners have somewhat embraced this view, but Marohn is bolder than most. He argues that most traffic signals in cities should be replaced with roundabouts, and that traffic speeds should be slashed:

The result of traffic signals is an environment of aggression, where a green light licenses a driver to take ownership of public space to the exclusion of others Reducing street speeds can increase traffic flow and reduce travel time for most trips, especially when traffic signals are replaced with continuous flow intersections. There is little to no need to create gaps in traffic flow when speeds are low.

His recommended speed for a street is 15 mph. (For streets, where we need complexity in order to build a productive place, traffic needs to flow at a neighborhood speed (15 mph is optimum))

In a book chock full of ideas, a couple more jumped out at me:

Relying on congestion as traffic calming. The pandemic has created a natural experiment:

With the virus-induced drop in traffic volume, what is being revealed is the overengineering and unsafe design of that occurs throughout our transportation system. Remove the traffic congestion that routinely thwarts high speeds and drivers naturally feel empowered to utilize the full capabilities that have been engineered for them. Speeds go up, and so does the rate of fatalities.

About shovel-ready projects, he writes:

Having gone through the lengthy process of planning and design, when the moment of decision came, local leaders opted to accept their sunk costs and table the project because they could not justify spending local money on it. That is a bad project. Then overnight, with federal stimulus providing the option of using someone elses money, these projects suddenly became an excellent use of resources.

Marohn illustrates his ideas with engaging stories from cities throughout the US. About a third of the way through the book, however, I noticed that I was substituting streets in Portland for all of his examples. You could write this entire book without leaving this city.

He is a great storyteller, but he also gets into the weeds with the old saws of traffic engineering, like Level of Service and 85th percentile speed measurements, and at one point annihilates a report used to justify a freeway expansion.

The book even ends with a confession (spoiler alert). Marohn shares a final crash story: A driver of a new SUV, music blaring (Im already disliking this person) gets in a doozy of a classic crash. A left-turning driver who failed to keep her wheels straight while waiting for on-coming traffic to clear, is rear-ended and pushed into the intersectiondirectly in front of the approaching SUV. The SUV veers, but nevertheless sends the car spinning, and then goes on to level a stop sign, take to the air for a moment, and finally meet a big tree which exacts revenge for the stop sign. A smell of sulfur and smoke ensues.

It wasnt until several paragraphs into this crash description that I realized that the driver of the SUV was our author, in the palm of whose hand I had been sitting for the previous 223 pages. The entire chapter is a tour de force, and a powerful end to a thought-provoking book.

Find this book on Powells.com.

Lisa Caballero has lived in SW Portland for 20 years. She is on the Transportation Committee of her neighborhood association, the Southwest Hills Residential League (SWHRL) and can be reached at lisacaballero853@gmail.com.

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Advanced design offers the highest availability, reliability and density, resulting in lower total cost of ownership

Herndon, Va. and Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 6, 2022 ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, will be launching its new MCX8000 multi-carrier satellite gateway at IBC2022 in Amsterdam. The MCX8000 enables broadcasters to cater for every type of broadcast scenario, including high IP encapsulation rates for Over the Top (OTT) applications.

The MCX8000 is a high density, high availability and fully redundant modular system that is suitable for a variety of broadcast use cases. These include direct-to-home broadcasting, where bringing quality content to the largest possible subscriber base with high reliability is key. The MCX8000 Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateway is highly bandwidth efficient, thus maximizing the throughput. It utilizes the DVB-S, DVB-S2, or DVB-S2X standard, assuring highly reliable transport stream delivery.

In Distribution to Towers (DTT), the MCX8000 ideally fits as a satellite front-end, feeding multiple Integrated Receiver Decoders (IRDs), and one MCX8000 in a multi-carrier, multi-stream configuration can be used for hundreds of TV channels.

For OTT delivery, the MCX8000s high IP encapsulation rates and efficient multicast capabilities uniquely position it to provide a path to support the transport of todays traditional broadcasts and tomorrows OTT services.

Built upon the trusted technology of the MDM6100 and MCX7000 software suite capabilities, the MCX8000 offers users higher density and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) through its unique features:

Hot swappable design reduces OPEXWith its modular design and functionality, users can easily swap out modem boards and power supply units (PSUs) without interrupting the system setup and with no requirement for tools, thus avoiding downtime for repairs and reducing operating expenses (OPEX). In the unlikely event of a failure in one PSU, the other can still power both modem boards and the redundancy switch. The MCX8000 also features ST Engineering iDirects Clean Channel Technology which ensures the highest bandwidth efficiency, also resulting in lower OPEX. The MCX8000s energy efficient design means that this is also a more environmentally friendly option.

High Availability, Full RedundancyThe MCX8000 offers higher availability to broadcasters and by combining two modem boards and a 1+1 redundancy switch in one unit, it becomes a three-in-one solution. This results in lower TCO due to reduced downtime for repairs and low power consumption.

Easy ConfigurationSimple configuration and ease of use is critical, and the MCX8000 features a brand new, intuitive interface designed to streamline the entire process, reducing the requirement for specialist knowledge. This focuses on the logical flow of configuration, from general system settings to configuring inputs/outputs and defining monitoring requirements. The system also benefits from over-the-air updates rather than suspending services to carry them out manually.

The broadcast sector relies on equipment that will promote maximum uptime, allowing operations to continue at all times, said Sean Yarborough, Vice President of Product Management at ST Engineering iDirect. Broadcasters are also looking to lower CAPEX and OPEX and be more cost-effective in a competitive landscape. We designed the MCX8000 with the idea of bringing together the best of both worlds - high density and high reliability - through robust design and industry-leading redundancy solutions. The result is a future proof system that combines video and IP multiservice capabilities to support the transport of todays and tomorrows services.

Visit ST Engineering iDirect at IBC2022, September 9-12, in Hall 1, stand #1.A49 where there will be a live demonstration of the MCX8000.

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ST Engineering iDirect, a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is a global leader in satellite communications (satcom) providing technology and solutions that enable its customers to expand their business, differentiate their services and optimize their satcom networks. With over 35 years of innovation focused on solving satellites most critical economic and technology challenges we are committed to shaping the future of how the world connects. The product portfolio, branded under the names iDirect and Newtec, represents the highest standards in performance, efficiency, and reliability, making it possible for its customers to deliver the best satcom connectivity experience anywhere in the world. ST Engineering iDirect is the worlds largest TDMA enterprise VSAT manufacturer and is the leader in key industries including broadcast, mobility and military/government. In 2007, iDirect Government was formed to better serve the U.S. government and defense communities. For more information on our platforms please visit http://www.idirect.net.

Media contact: Julie BettingerVice President, Corporate MarketingST Engineering iDirectPhone: (1) 703 648 8155Email: jbettinger@idirect.net

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