I hope it did not involve his tibio-femoral or patello-femoral articulating surfaces. Those are nasty surgeries and he was very young without sealed plate ends. It could have been bad. I hope he is doing ok today. As an ME student you should take a look at the type of joint the knee is. It's a fascinating bit of engineering.
Whoa! I am gob-smacked and will back down immediately! GOOD JOB! Ok I take it back almost all of it **wink**. You know that is very impressive and shows maturity there. It's so hard to back down when you are young and full of piss and vinegar
I know, oh do I know! So I apologize for my smack down.
Those last 2 years of an ME are tough. Do the ME's do internships like the young EE's today? My son did his at Silicon Graphics back in the day (he's a Ph.D. EE from Stanford waiting to go IPO now and finish promoting his new book).
I have a few degrees let's say but the one I'm currently slanging for my hash is my MSCS (state school). I'm a software engineer. I just retired 6/1 of this year. My employer, apparently happy with my services, insisted I was not retired and changed me to 'consultant'.
Unfortunately we are having a battle of wills as I say retired they say consultant so far my definition is controlling. I keep stating the 13th amendment and well... it's good to be wanted in this day and age. I know at the end all I hired was Ph.D's (you can imagine the shenanigans as they pressed to test the less educated female engineer! So yeah I apologize for transferring that onto you!), but the point of that was you may need to stay in school. That is a good strategy right up until then end of your first post-doc. Then you must stop and work for at least a couple years LOL!
Trust me on that..... I looked at school as end point not way station LOL! Welcome to RIU. It's good to meet you.