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Machine Control: Capstone Project

-Brainstorming Ideas: Provide at least four of your team’s brainstorming ideas for the design solution. This should include brainstorming sketches or electronic 3D models of your ideas. Each sketch should be signed, dated, and should include labels and descriptions for communication.

-Decision Matrix: Evaluate the four solution ideas using a decision matrix. Determine the best solution to the problem.

-Final Design Solution: Create a detailed pictorial sketch or use 3D modeling software to document the best solution, based upon your team’s decision matrix. Your sketch or 3D model should include a rationale for the design selected as the final design solution. Each sketch should be signed, dated, and should include labels and descriptions for communication.

-Design Modifications: If you change your final design solution, document the modifications. Explain the reason for the modifications and describe how the new design solution will solve the problem (refer to Design Modifications Chart).

-Final Design: This section will include information pertinent to the design solution in the form of images (e.g., photographs of final solution, photographs of testing solution, orthographic and isometric drawings, assembly, schematics, exploded views, written programs, flow charts, calculations, and data tables).

-Reflection: How well did you accomplish your objectives? What would your team do differently with your design solution and why? Do the results fulfill the problem statement? Provide a brief explanation of what you learned, the challenges of working in a design team, and the purpose of the design problem. The reflection should be 200-250 words.


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- A Helping Hand: Since one of the major goals of our course is to expose students to working in a collaborative and open environment (like one might experience in a professional technical setting), I'd like to know if there were any students outside of your team that were especially helpful to your efforts. If you did recieve some help, please let me know who that was and be specific about how they helped you out. I will look positively on you for recognizing people that made a difference for you. Thanks.

Engineer program investigation

I chose to do UCLA's architecture and Urban design,

course requirements:
all applicants are expected to submit a statement of purpose, creative portfolio, and the departmental supplement. Letters of Recommendation 3


Questions

College/University of interest: UCLA

Why does this institution appeal to you?: I like the campus, it's a great and well known school, it shows a good program for architecture that i want

Which engineering program is most interesting to you and why?: I'm mostly interested in the architecture, Master of Architecture I (M.Arch. I) because i'm a creative person and i'm better at designing the interior or exterior than the actual technical calculations and building of it


Which undergraduate engineering elective is most interesting? Describe the course and its appeal to you: the BA in Architectural Studies because it's all about designing

Glider Challenge: Deliverables

Challenge: To create the best glider in the class.


Brainstorm solutions:
-To brainstorm we must think about design, about ideas that will make the glider work the best, last the longest in the air, or go the furthest. Although the design is important it's better to worry more about the technical function of our glider

-Long rectangular wings, support inner triangles for resistance, cover with paper glue it by adding glue to the skelleton of our glider and then cover it all up and let it dry



Sketches:






Specification:

-We are all given the same amount of time to come up with a glider, we can only use tissue paper, the couple sticks of wood (that is easily broken), glue, and scissors



Sketches of Developed Solutions:

Test Phase notes:

It's been a pretty windy week and our gliders are all pretty light. Let's hope when we go out there the wind stops winding :)

The wind had no mercy so we had to go in front of the dance building to help our gliders a bit, it helped as they took off

the harder they were being thrown the less distance they'd travel

Our glider sadly did not make a very good performance due to it's accident of a broken wing when found the morning of the competition. Other than that I feel like maybe if Rickey would have been a little more gentle when throwin it maybe the Friendship would have had a longer and better glide. We probably should have added some weight at the tip of the glider so that it wouldnt go up in a circle and crash. If we had a stronger material holding it together like some stronger wood it probably would have helped it glide. Over all i feel like our design was built the best way possible with the time and materials we had. It was a fun activity :)

Egg Drop Challenge- I#1

Total # of Achievements Earned: 26

Brainstorming -Create a sketch of one possible solution. Include labels. -Create a sketch of another possible solution. Include labels. -Create a sketch of a third possible solution. Include labels. -Use a decision matrix to justify the approach you chose. Material Prep -Generate a list of materials required for build day. -Document a plan to ensure materials are brought in on block day. Build Achievements Material Size: (your egg is not included in the material size) (air is ubiquitous and not included in material size. "Rare" commodities like helium are.) -Your materials fit inside a printer paper box -Your materials fit inside a shoe box Material Weight: (your egg is not included in material weight) -Your materials weigh less than 500 grams. -Your materials weigh less than 300 grams. -Your materials weigh less than 200 grams. -Your materials weigh less than 150 grams. -Your materials weigh less than 100 grams. Drop Achievements Drop Accuracy: -You hit the butcher paper! -You hit inside the third ring! Egg Resilience: -Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times) -Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times) -Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times) Calculation Achievements -Describe an aspect of the event using arithmetic. (234g-149g)=85g -Describe an aspect of the event using geometry. A=pi r^2 A=36pi -Describe an aspect of the event using algebra. x + x + x =85; 28.33g per plate -Describe an aspect of the event using calculus. 1/2 a t^2; t=1.01s; integrate 1/2 a t^2= at; (9.8)(1.01)=9.9 m/s Other Achievements -Help set up the Bullseye. Ana did it -Come up with a clever name Mr. Olson uses for an existing Achievment. Don't Scramble the Egg (Egg didn't break) -Design an Achievement Mr. Olson approves for next year's Egg Drop Challenge. Use only one type of material. -Suggest a redesign to the activity that Mr Olson confirms he will use for next year's Egg Drop Challenge. Obstacles and challenges; like blindfolded drops, spots on the tarp that do not count for any points, AESTHETICS SHOULD COUNT

• Our "Friendship" and Joe's parachute worked very well. Since we had a secure padding and the egg was stable it didnt move on its side or anything which helped it not to break because the egg's side is the most vulnerable. That was the mistake with Colin's and his partner because they had their in a bunch of cotton balls but it wasnt as stable as it should have been.


• Based on the achievements you earned, how would you redesign your solution to score better? Be specific (sketches with labeling work well for this).

TED-key issues presented in my talk

Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now

We aren't paying attention to ourselves

We dont take time to think, computers do all the thinking for us now

The advancements in technology allow us to communicate from any part of the world

We are able to connect to whomever and whenever we want

First time in humanity that we've connected in this way

"Things are beautiful that it's still human connection it's just done in a different way"