mesbooks Chapter 11 Mechanical Innovation Competition
Chapter 11 Mechanical Innovation Competition
After leaving the conference room, the group walked down the stairs.
Zhou Mingyuan rushed over to Lu Feng's side in three quick steps, putting his arm around Lu Feng's shoulder with the ease of someone who had known him for ten years.
"Junior brother, can you help your senior brother out?"
Lu Feng turned his head to look at him: "Senior brother, stop fooling around."
"I'm not kidding, I'm serious." Zhou Mingyuan said with a straight face, "Look, I've been following the teacher for more than two years, and the model deviation can't be reduced to less than 10%. You came here for one morning and directly reduced it to 5%. What does this show? It shows that I need a good junior brother."
"This means you need to change your approach."
"Yes, you are my new idea." Zhou Mingyuan patted Lu Feng's shoulder with considerable force. "I'm sticking with this guy, you're not going to shake me off."
Zhao Pengfei, who was following behind, said, "Brother Zhou, isn't your eating manners a bit too unseemly?"
"What do you know? This is called resource integration."
Sun Hao shook his head with a smile, while Wang Bowen maintained his indifferent expression, though the curve of his lips betrayed him.
After leaving the laboratory building, the five of them headed towards the cafeteria.
The midday sun at the end of September was still quite dazzling, and the shadows of the plane trees were dappled on the road.
Halfway there, Zhou Mingyuan and Zhao Pengfei started talking about the project's progress.
"How are your preparations for the second phase of parameter scanning going?"
Zhao Pengfei frowned: "The framework is set up, but the amount of calculation is too large. It takes more than four hours for that machine to run one set of working conditions. It will take a whole day and night to run all six sets of working conditions without stopping."
"Then let's line up and run, and hang it up at night."
"The problem isn't the timing, it's that it crashes frequently in the middle. It blue screens as soon as the memory is full. Last time it crashed when it got to the fifth group, and all the previous ones were wasted."
Zhou Mingyuan sighed: "That's why the teacher said we need to replace the computer. I'll write up the budget this afternoon and try to get it approved this week."
As Lu Feng listened to their conversation, his hands were in his pockets, but his mind was already on the system panel.
During a break while walking, he silently recited it to himself.
A light blue, semi-transparent panel popped out.
[Research Summoning System]
[Host: Lu Feng]
Current learning value: 7000
Current mood score: 800
[Number of cutting-edge technology blueprints: 1]
[Number of entries: 1]
[Number of summoned experts: 0]
Lu Feng paused for a moment.
7000?
He remembered that his learning value was just over a thousand last night before going to bed, but after spending the whole morning in the lab doing data processing and model correction, it increased by nearly six thousand.
No wonder that processing real scientific data, revising dynamic models, and performing spectral analysis are all on a completely different level of difficulty and complexity compared to reading textbooks.
The learning points reward given by the system will naturally be higher.
The emotion score is 900, which is easy to understand.
Yesterday, Ye Guodong was absorbed. Today, in the lab, everyone from Zhou Mingyuan to Zhao Pengfei to Sun Hao showed expressions of surprise, admiration, and disbelief when they saw his achievements. All these emotional fluctuations were absorbed by the system.
The speed-up collection effect of the "infection" entry is indeed impressive.
Lu Feng quickly did some calculations.
He already had one of the blueprints for the cutting-edge technology, but he hadn't fully grasped the blueprint for the fractional constitutive equation yet.
Last night, Ye Guodong helped him figure out the key derivation of the Mittag-Leffler function. He can finish the rest with just a little more time.
The blueprints are very clear; successfully understanding the black technology blueprints will grant an additional 2000 learning points.
7000 plus 2000 equals 9000.
Exchange for another new blueprint for 1000, leaving 8000.
Summoning a powerful figure requires 10000 learning points plus 1000 emotion points.
In other words, as long as he fully understands the blueprint he has, he can accumulate enough resources to summon the powerful figure for the first time.
As for the emotion value, it's currently at 800, just 200 short of the summoning threshold.
At today's collection rate, it will easily surpass a thousand.
Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Maxwell...
The grayed-out avatar in the database flashed through Lu Feng's mind, and he clenched his fist.
almost.
"Lufeng? Let's go, what are you standing there for?"
Zhou Mingyuan's voice pulled him back to reality.
Lu Feng snapped out of his daze and realized that everyone else had already reached the cafeteria entrance, leaving him standing alone in the middle of the road.
"It's nothing, I'm just thinking."
There weren't many people in the cafeteria at noon. After all, it was Wednesday, and many students were too lazy to leave their dorms at noon, so they relied on instant noodles and takeout.
The five of them got their food and sat down at a table by the window.
Lu Feng's plate contained a serving of Kung Pao Chicken, a serving of stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and a bowl of rice, totaling 8.2 yuan.
Zhou Mingyuan sat opposite Lu Feng, ate a couple of mouthfuls of rice, and then suddenly put down his chopsticks.
"By the way, Lu Feng, there's something I need to tell you."
"Um?"
"Regarding the stipend, the teacher just said that it will be paid according to the standard for first-year graduate students. The stipend for first-year graduate students is 600 yuan per month, which will be deposited into your account at the end of each month."
Lu Feng paused for a moment while picking up food with his chopsticks.
Six hundred?
What was the concept of 600 yuan in 2012?
His living expenses for this month are only 1,200 yuan. A meal in the cafeteria costs an average of four or five yuan, so his food expenses for the month will be at most 500 yuan.
The 600 yuan allowance is enough for about half a month's expenses.
In his previous life, when he was an undergraduate, he was so poor that his pockets were emptier than his face, and he would hesitate for a long time before buying a reference book.
I've only been a freshman for a month and I already have a stable extra income.
"So many?" Lu Feng couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Mingyuan chewed his food and mumbled, "What do you mean 'a lot'? This is from the teacher's project funding, it's normal. But usually only graduate students get it. Undergraduates get stipends when they join a project. You should be the first in our college to receive one."
He pointed his chopsticks at Lu Feng and said, "So you should cherish this opportunity and not let your teacher down."
Lu Feng nodded and said nothing more.
Six hundred yuan is not a large sum of money, but it has a different meaning. It means that he has officially entered the scientific research system, has output, and has received rewards. He is no longer a college student who only skips classes and plays cards.
Sun Hao, who was sitting next to Lu Feng, finished his bowl of wontons, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and suddenly turned to Lu Feng.
"Lu Feng, are you interested in the mechanical innovation competition?"
Lu Feng looked up at him: "What competition?"
"Mechanical Innovation Competition." Sun Hao put down his tissue. "This is the first time it's being held at the provincial level, open to mechanical engineering students from universities across the province. The detailed notice should be sent to each college in the next couple of days. I only found out about it last week when I saw a preliminary notice at the Academic Affairs Office."
"In what form?"
"Individuals or teams are welcome. The requirement is to propose innovative design or improvement solutions in the field of mechanics, which can be theoretical or physical. Finally, the expert review panel will score and rank them."
As Sun Hao spoke, he held up one hand and gestured a number.
"The first prize is five thousand."
Lu Feng narrowed his eyes.
Five thousand yuan?
In the 2012 student competition, the first prize was five thousand yuan, which was an astonishing figure given the consumption level at the time.
It's worth noting that many first prizes in provincial competitions only amount to one or two thousand yuan, and some even only give certificates without any money.
The organizers are really willing to spend money to offer such a high price for the first time.
Of course, money is one aspect.
More importantly, winning provincial-level competition awards is a real plus for a resume. In his previous life, when he graduated, his resume was completely blank, with nothing but his diploma. Standing next to those with stacks of award certificates, the difference was immediately apparent.
"When exactly is the registration period?" Lu Feng asked.
Sun Hao shook his head and said, "The official announcement hasn't come out yet, but it should be in the next day or two. It should be posted on the college bulletin board and in the class group. If you're interested, you can think about your options first, and then register as soon as the announcement comes out."
My mind is already racing.
There are too many directions for mechanical innovation.
Gear transmission, hydraulic systems, mechanism design, automation devices... you can make something from any direction.
But if you want to win first place, it's not enough to just make it; you need to have real innovation and impress the judges.