Father's Day
Since I last posted we've had the (monthly)Friday evening Ladies' Crafts Evening, the (monthly) Saturday Morning Mens' Group, Bible Class and more... all without yours truly reporting.
But there's a good reason for that, and here she is:
We were traveling to attend our daughter Beth's graduation, to see her get her Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (she's going on for her Master's). This just happened to coincide with our wedding anniversary -- and just two days before Father's Day. What a way to make this old engineer proud!
(BTW, that's her fiance in the glasses.)
posted by Continuing Home @ 3:55 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:29 PM,
Anonymous said…
Wow, congratulations to Beth AND to her proud parents! That is just tremendous--thanks for sharing this.
Will (from Prydain)
At 9:59 PM,
Continuing Home said…
Will from Prydain,
Thank you! I posted this in such a hurry from an airport on the way home I forgot to mention what was going on in the photos. She was showing some of us family thee of the "concept cars" her university team has been working on, cars that can deliver far more miles per "gallon" (dollar?) than currently commercially-available cars.
Her team has entered competitions in this regard, but whereas I gather most of the competition simply try to safely re-invent your basic hybrid car, her team is introducing an interesting mix of a multitude of new non-/semi-commercial technologies.
As an engineer I don't strongly expect such an effort to prevail overall (though it can happen), but there is a lot more that can be learned from the effort -- and in a situation as safely constrained as this I'm pleased she's going all-out to see what can be achieved.
One Proud Dad
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