Hi! How are you? The last day two students of the UIB (University of the Balearic Islands) which are studying engineering came to our high school to introduce us in the world of engineering by doing a project.
Maybe some of you don't know what really means be an engineer, so the dictionary say that an engineer is "a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering : a mechanical engineer; a civil engineer...". Maybe this definition is so complex, well an engineer is someone who fins a solution to a problem using the engineering.
During this project we worked in groups with the goal of build an estructure in teams. In my case my experience with my group was great, I felt confortable with my team and we worked together, in the way that everyone had a task but we helped each other. Of course every member worked and we tried to give the better of our self's!
Although we worked as a really team we didn't achieved our goal (make an estructure which purpose was to raise some centimeters a bag of tea through wind energy.) I think our problem was that we tried so different things and at the end we didn't have time because we changed the project so many times. If we had followed our first idea (do the blades with spoons and then redirige the wind) maybe it would have worked. We could improve it changing the shape of the blades because the movement that raised the bag of tea worked.
I think we worked like engineers because we searched the problem and we tried to solve it with the materials we had, but I feel so stress and without in off time. Definitely I won't be an engineer!
At the end of the project I enjoyed the activity and I will repeat it if i have the opportunity.
That's all for today, see you in the next post!
INFORMATION
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http://www.dictionary.com/browse/engineer
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Maybe some of you don't know what really means be an engineer, so the dictionary say that an engineer is "a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering : a mechanical engineer; a civil engineer...". Maybe this definition is so complex, well an engineer is someone who fins a solution to a problem using the engineering.
During this project we worked in groups with the goal of build an estructure in teams. In my case my experience with my group was great, I felt confortable with my team and we worked together, in the way that everyone had a task but we helped each other. Of course every member worked and we tried to give the better of our self's!
Although we worked as a really team we didn't achieved our goal (make an estructure which purpose was to raise some centimeters a bag of tea through wind energy.) I think our problem was that we tried so different things and at the end we didn't have time because we changed the project so many times. If we had followed our first idea (do the blades with spoons and then redirige the wind) maybe it would have worked. We could improve it changing the shape of the blades because the movement that raised the bag of tea worked.I think we worked like engineers because we searched the problem and we tried to solve it with the materials we had, but I feel so stress and without in off time. Definitely I won't be an engineer!
At the end of the project I enjoyed the activity and I will repeat it if i have the opportunity.
That's all for today, see you in the next post!
INFORMATION
http://www.uib.es/digitalAssets/290/290331_logo_dircom.png
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/engineer
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/ldZpA3onvXY/VxzQNyP1ZiI/AAAAAAAB0ro/4Mkl_KgQ_C0Q_NWWOFBNR5eB6nTrlz9yQCLcB/s1600/Molino%2Bde%2Bviento%2Bdibujo.jpg
