[NotPavlovsDog]

Agree on both counts.

It's really inspiring to see what real engineering is. Makes me feel like a sell-out massaging Skinner boxes.

In the laundry problem they are dealing with both the extreme challenge of physical objects (connecting the right pump to the right controller, battling liquid pressure loss, unreliable reference washing machine performance and water quality ), abstract concepts ("what shall be identified as microplastics?" "is the reference wash cycle in any way relevant to how plastic clothing sheds when worn by humans?" "how shall the conflicting measurement methods from literature be addressed / unified?") and project constraints. To say nothing about filter clogging.

And it's a great feeling to know that your work is fundamentally relevant, i see that even when they hit their lows.

Really making me re-consider my career path.