User:Billweaver

I am a mechanical designer. What that means is I am not a degreed engineer but I have progressed from making drawings of other people's designs to making my own designs and then, usually, drawing them and getting them built.

I presently work for a company that refurbishes asphalt plants and in some cases provides new equipment for those plants. In my several months with the company I have learned some and contributed some but definitely am no authority on the subject. My twenty year work history in mechanical design in general is full of twists and turns and I feel that I have seen a pretty good cross section of how people do this work in American industry. Their methods are as many and varied as their company cultures and product peculiarities.

My interests include playing the piano, building free flight balse airplanes and fooling around with Microsoft Flight Simulator.

I am bothering to sign on with Wikiversity because I would like to fill in the considerable gaps in my engineering knowledge but I can't stomach the idea of going to a traditional engineering program. (Or afford it either.) (And they probably wouldn't admit me anyway because of previous academic misadventures.)

What I am seeing is that there is a lack of structure and content in the Wikiversity ME program. This does not bother me but I would like to help with this grand enterprise which has been a long time in coming to the internet. That may involve adding content to the best of my ability. The fact that I came here to learn rather than to hold forth reflects the fact that I have more to learn than to share so please be patient with my efforts.