Group 6 Engineering

Computer science is the study of computers, automation, and information. These studies as well as its software capabilities are heavily relied on when it comes to robotics and the end result of any built robot. A robot itself can be put together using purely hardware knowledge, but in order for the robot to be a machine that has an effect on its surrounding environment, it must be programmed.

One major component of robotics is sensor processing and the data being inputted to the robot through numerous sensors needs a strategy to process and decide what to do with the information. Robotics is an extension of computer science, utilizing its techniques to bring theoretical machines to physical form.

Week One Evaluation

Civil Engineering and Building Science combines architectural and structural engineering. It entails all the phases of building a structure, beginning with conceptualization, to creating models in 3D simulation and paper, finally to the construction of the theoretically tested structure. Factors such as environmental conditions, cost, material limits, and most importantly for this particular project, earthquake stability.

Week Two Evaluation

Biomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles such as problem solving techniques to biology and medicine. Electrical engineering is the focus of designing, testing, and building equipment, devices, and systems. These two fields combined allowed us to use electrical engineering in a biomedical application and learning how engineering doesn't just stop at building hardware.

Week Three Evaluation

Aerospace/aeronautical engineering includes the designing, testing, and manufacturing of both commercial and military aircrafts, missiles, and spacecraft. Defense systems, aviation, and space exploration also rely on principles in aerospace engineering. Chemical engineering is a branch of engineering that applies physical (and increasingly biological) sciences as well as mathematics in the design, development, and maintenance of large-scale chemical processes that convert raw materials into useful or valuable products. Mechanical engineering consists of the fields of thermal design and machine design. It is also one of the most versatile disciplines in engineering, involved with anything that moves or uses energy. Mechanical engineers may use economic, social, environmental, or ethical principles when creating new products. Because "industry" has a broad meaning industrial engineering is one of the most diverse fields of engineering. At its core, industrial engineering refers to the production of all economic goods within an economy. Industrial engineers develop integrated systems consisting of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, and materials for primary, secondary, and tertiary industries.

Week Four Evaluation