What do you study?
By ghutchis at Thu, Jun 21 2007 10:26am
Astro
7% (73 votes)
Biological / Medical
27% (281 votes)
Chemical
8% (84 votes)
Computational
10% (107 votes)
Geological / Earth Sciences
7% (73 votes)
Mathematical
7% (73 votes)
Physics
18% (194 votes)
Social Sciences
7% (71 votes)
Other (how could you forget?)
10% (103 votes)
Total votes: 1059
Comments
Study?
I wonder how many people lurking here are actually engineers? Is there a Mac-oriented community site for the applied fields?
Revised Slogan?
How about:
Online Community and Resource for Mac OS X in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics? (STEM)
Too much of a mouthful? Maybe it's worth a new poll in the near future?
Other?
For everyone who posts "other," please post a comment -- we'd like to know what we left out!
Only one choice? What about synthesis of sciences?
Astronomy & physics with education, specifically oriented towards dealing with pseudoscience/creationism.
Missing
Cognitive Science is missing or at least it fits uneasily in a few of these categories
Guilty
I'll chime in as a lurking electrical engineer.
C'est moi!
Yep yep, I'm studying aerospace & mechanical engineering.
Engineers use computers too
I'm an Electrical Engineer (Ph.D.). I visit this site regularly even though it is science oriented. Since scientists and engineers have many of the same computing needs, I propose re-orienting and re-naming the site to include engineering and mathematics. I'm not sure that "technology" is an essential focus other than to complete the acronym.
Jerry
Another engineer
Another Electrical/Computer Engineer(in training)
Neuroscience / Cognitive Science
Damned interdisciplinarity!
Revised Slogan?
Although my curiosity prompted the discussion, I'm ambivalent about openly inviting engineers to the MacResearch.org party. I wouldn't want a large influx of engineers to ruin the local culture and drive away the true Mac researchers.
Edit: Disclaimer: I am an engineer.
Chemical Engineering/Microfluidics
Currently working on an automated whole-gel scanning system for microfluidic gel electrophoresis.
another Engineer: Mechanical Engineering / Materials Processing
I'm a mechanical engineer and currently preparing my Ph. D. thesis in Materials Processing (main interest: tolerances in Ceramic Injection Moulding of ultra precision parts).
Martin
Mac Researchers
I would not worry, we Mac Researchers have become a pretty hardy bunch!
software engineer
I'm a general science geek (even got my own subscription to nature) but my profession is mac software engineering. My wife however, is doing computational chemistry research for a professor a San Jose State. This led us to setting up a small cluster at home running GAMESS. I lurk to see how people are actually using computers in the sciences (since frankly, I can't figure out what people do with computers other than web browsing nowadays!)
How is Engineering not Research?
Maybe I'm just a newcomer to the site, but it seems like science and engineering disciplines would use computers in similar ways. I think the "MacResearch" name seems general enough to encompass a range of disciplines.
That's why I'm curious about the poll, although as an example, I certainly hope "Chemical Engineering" is also in "Chemical" research. I would certainly think there are strong similarities.
Research part of Engineering
"...seems like science and engineering disciplines would use computers in similar ways..."
Yes, I agree. Matlab is a good example of software that is useful for both scientists and engineers.
Nuclear Engineering
I work on computer simulations of reactor accidents.
speech processing
electrical/computer engineering : speech, language and cognitive processing
Mechanical Engineer
At my organization my official title is actually "engineering scientist." I love that!
Yet another engineer here..
Civil Engineering. Of the under-represented field of Engineering, Civvies are probably the least represented when it comes to HPC (which completely baffles me).
cognitive science / psychology / linguistics
right there with you...
Immunology here...
..., earning an M.D. and preparing the Ph.D.
Religious Studies
Gotta love Science and your language. Hope you don't mind a Religion major reading topics of interest.
Other
I'm an 'other'.
I don't study anything, and don't research anything. I'm one of those people who has that horrible squirmy job title of 'Software Engineer', though I never use it, because an Engineer I most certainly am not.
I'm a programmer, I love Macs, and I'm fascinated by HPC, so I'll be hangin out and soakin it up.
What about the humanities?
"How could I forget" is not an option! ;)
Acoustics
Acoustics is sometimes thought of as a branch of engineering and is indeed often taught in schools of engineering. However, it is cross disciplinary in nature, and offers plenty of interest for scientists as well as engineers.
I have an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and a graduate degree in physics (with emphasis in acoustics). I spent a couple years as a research faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University, where I spent much of my time investigating novel approaches to observing and controlling sound fields (with applications in active noise control, sound system equalization, etc.).
Now, I spend much of my time developing Mac-based acoustical measurement software, and I appreciate the articles and discussions at MacResearch.org.
Lexical Analysis
I work in Lexical Analysis. The short description is human language word utilization statistics.