On Labs

Chemical engg at NITK has always placed an emphasis on labs to the extent that the non-functioning boiler in the Heat Transfer lab doesnt deter the "determined" students to have the lab sessions none-the-less.. Hey where else do you get a virtual lab in a non-virtual environment?? Hmmm.. We can teach those comps/IT guys a little here..

The chemical lab saga begins in 4th semester and continues all the way till 7th sem which ironically is where the author finds himself in. My my, how fast time passes! The lab is based on Process Dynamics & Control and Chemical Reaction Engineering : Both together responsible for more DD grades than the rest of the subjects combined! So one can estimate how good we are in lab even if he/she has no idea on Chemical engineering.

Oh and the fact that we have the most charming teacher in the dept doesnt help. She dominates us with an iron fist though some of her decisions makes us wonder if the mind also is filled with iron! More often than not we end up manipulating values.. In fact manipulation is an art most of us have learnt to be masters at, thats not a praise on the dept but then in the real world manipulation is not desirable na??

Right now as i am writing this post, i am also calculating the results of an expt.. Lets see: I know from asking others what the final answer is to be, I am not getting it
( -300 instead of +6 to +9) so i resort to my good friend Manipulation.. Excel rocks here, change a few values and voila: I get +ve values.. A few iterations (Manipulation isnt all that different from PDCE) and i get +14. I dont change it further to avoid suspicion and report it.. A few comments and my report is all done. As is my post!

P.S. The above mention of lab-work is but a satyr, it neednt be followed by smart ppl or extremely dumb retards too!