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MILESTONE 2 - CHOOSING MCP

DESIGN PROJECTS

MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

APPLIED ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Date: August 5th, 2014

Description: Through the first-year design projects, I learned the basics of engineering practices as well as the importance of working effectively in a team. However, my teamwork and communication skills were still major weaknesses. The technical knowledge I learned in the last two years have not been applied to designing, only replicating models based on instructions.

When deciding my Capstone course, I reflected upon my ESP design projects as well as the group work done in ECE specific projects. The ESP projects did not incorporate any technical skills from across the disciplines, while the ECE specific projects were limited to web, server, or app designs with some electronic components. Instead, I was interested in more tangible and innovative technologies which required a synergy between multiply fields of engineering. I choose the Multidisciplinary Capstone project to fill this gap in my engineering experience.

Improvement: Work Organization, Teamwork, Technical Communication, Technical Skills, Engineering design methodology, Inter-Disciplinary Cooperation

Strengths: Experimental practice, Detail Oriented, Textual Analysis, Writing

Known Weaknesses: Teamwork, Technical Communication, Engineering design methodology, Inter-Disciplinary Cooperation, Time Organization

Unknown Weaknesses: Application of Knowledge, Project Organization, Independent Learning, Depth of Technical Skills

Goal: Continue to develop my technical skills, my technical communication, and my teamwork so I can work more effectively with other engineers.

The first multidisciplinary engineering project, we applied principles of engineering design to improving the Bixi Bike's System. Learned: Engineering Design Process, Interdiscipline Communication	Worked in a multidisciplinary team for a real client to design a solution using Engineering design methodologies. Built on: Engineering Design, Multidisciplinary team projects Learned: How to work with a real client

Learned theories of mechanical systems and how to apply them to real world situations.	Physics of objects in motion
Integrals, derivatives, and boundary conditions of equations.	Theoretical understanding of Maxwell's Laws and the theories of electromagnetism. Applying and graphing these theories in MatLab

Writing C-programs which builds simple data structures	Analyzing circuits constructed using these components under AC and DC currents. Sometimes driven by variable power supplies.
Transistor level programming of logical gates and timing analysis of it.	In lab analysis of electronics and their modulation of various electronic and analogue signals.
Designed a balancer robot using inputs from light signals and outputs to a motor. Used Verilog to program a DE-2 board which acted as a processor for the motor controller.

MILESTONE 2 - CHOOSING MCP

DESIGN PROJECTS

MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

APPLIED ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

The first multidisciplinary engineering project, we applied principles of engineering design to improving the Bixi Bike's System. Learned: Engineering Design Process, Interdiscipline Communication

Worked in a multidisciplinary team for a real client to design a solution using Engineering design methodologies. Built on: Engineering Design, Multidisciplinary team projects Learned: How to work with a real client

Learned theories of mechanical systems and how to apply them to real world situations.

Physics of objects in motion

Integrals, derivatives, and boundary conditions of equations.

Theoretical understanding of Maxwell's Laws and the theories of electromagnetism. Applying and graphing these theories in MatLab

Writing C-programs which builds simple data structures

Analyzing circuits constructed using these components under AC and DC currents. Sometimes driven by variable power supplies.

Transistor level programming of logical gates and timing analysis of it.

In lab analysis of electronics and their modulation of various electronic and analogue signals.

Designed a balancer robot using inputs from light signals and outputs to a motor. Used Verilog to program a DE-2 board which acted as a processor for the motor controller.