POE (Principles of Engineering)

This project was chosen because it was one of the first few projects we participated in that I felt demonstrated our capabilities and potential as engineer's. For this project we were expected to design and create a shoe that meets the needs of our chosen client based on their requirements for the shoe. We weren't expected to make it perfect but our "shoe" had to at least come close to meeting our clients needs. Due to this we had to go through the entire engineering process that included defining the problem, testing materials, finding out background information and more. Imbedded in this were various concepts of engineering that were covered and had to be understood which included, Engineering Design Process, Effective Communication and Project Management. Throughout the project we had many up's and down's that meant sometimes we had to scratch an entire concept and try something else but eventually we were able to make something that fit the criteria however to do this we had to sacrifice aesthetics slightly. From this project I was able to not only learn persistence but this project forced me to be creative and try to essentially come up with new ways t solve our problems which is a crucial skill as an engineer. 

Going into the second marking period our projects had gotten harder and an example of one of those project is our chain reaction project. I chose this project because of how much it challenged us by forcing to critically think about many things that surrounded the project. This was because the purpose of this assignment was to use robots performing different types of motion converting mechanisms in order to create a closed-loop system. Each group was tasked with the challenge of converting one motion to another and connecting that with the motion of another group's to create a loop that can repeat constantly. Due the complexity of the project, many concepts were included like closed-loop systems, robotic systems, rotating axis, motion converting mechanisms and rotary to linear Motion. These concepts all came into play at various points in the building process and led to the eventual success of of the assignment because not only was my group able to complete this assignment but the entire class was able to connect their system with each other. From this I learned the importance of collaboration and the degree at which it was necessary in many aspects of engineering.