Mentorship

    Literal

·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

·   Mentor: Ajay Bettadapura Cal Poly Pomona

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

Seriously working in a team but also knowing my limitations as to what I can do, I was very cocky you should say when it came to group work, I thought I knew everything, but when i was on this team I was the one that didn't know anything and it fueled my mind to try to grasp what was going on around me. Personally a lot of opportunities have come my way i just wanna see where they lead me to in the future

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

 

This project was the foundation to my EQ, What my mentor did was he taught me from the ground up starting with binary and simple coding, to working on sophisticated prototypes. This experience has opened up many doors and opportunities for me in the future. When it came to having to choose what answer best answered my EQ I had to choose my third answer, every engineer should treat completed robots as sophisticated prototypes, which made sense in the end because its the end result that matters, yes programing and hardware are good, but it wont mean anything if it hasn't been tested.

*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office.  After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody.  It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly.  The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.

blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours

1.   Where are you doing your mentor ship?

I'm doing my  mentor ship at Cal Poly Pomona, I'm on a team of Engineering grad students working alongside Northrop Grumman. This project is a collaboration project that serves as an outreach program for job applications and experience.

2.   Who is your contact?


Ajay Bettadapura Aero Space , Ian Mcllraith Hardwear. etc (providing buisness card)

3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentor ship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?

49 Hours and 50 min listed, but 52 hours and 50 min total.

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

I've completed 10 hours this week so I am writing on that in particular, so this week my mentor introduced me to programing! On Monday I was ready to start working on the FPGA ( ), but Ian convinced Ajay that the FPGA would have to come later because of the difficulty of the programming. So with that being said I've spent my 10 hours working on this arduino board figuring out what to make it do and how to program it. My mentor wants me to be independent and find solutions on my own so he told me to figure this step of the process on my own.

5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number confirming who they should call to verify it.

Blog 2: Summer Mentorship Component

1. Summer Mentorship Log (link provided below)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgYtcT43q7wgdG11WXpPb2F3b3JtbjlWbFpUNlBiWkE&usp=sharing

2. Contacts & Numbers:
   David Schwartz # (714)-983-1592
   Dave Rumph # (310)-333-7519

3. What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience?

- How does programming tie into Electrical Engineering?

- What type of classes am I looking at to take for college?

-With programming and computing being a part of Electrical Engineering, could there be a military application? (such as aerospace, aircraft, cyber, etc.)

- What are some major Companies dealing with a military background if the question above is a possibility?

4. What was the most important thing you gained from this experience?

- I really liked working with both Dave and David. David was very engaging and showed me a direction to head in and branches of engineering to look into (electronic, electrical, and mechanical). He introduced me to a wide variety of opportunities, which is were I met Dave. I wanted to look into programming, getting my hands dirty with wires and circuits. Im glad I got to work with them to see how these things work, especially with the programming because I got to see my product to move just by using my coding. and seeing it move was the most exhilarating experience, knowing that I created that code and seeing a printer move because of it. It got me to look into more than just electrical engineering, it got me to explore what is  out there.

5. How did it help you choose your topic?

- When I first started this project, I wanted to be in the clean energy business, but now I'm looking into more of a military application. Right now I'm interested in defense systems; Lockheed Martin is an Aerospace Weapons and Defense company that creates defense systems to protect our homeland, and I'm already being redirected to an engineer to do my mentorship there. Im still interested in clean energy but I'm far more interested in military than I am in clean energy. David described it to me like this, engineering is a chance to fix something in the world, to make the world safer and better for others. When I was programing at Xerox with the printers, it led me to look into ways to help out and contribute to the world. Seeing what Engineers work with, I know this is what I want to do, But I want to get dirty, I want to create something and help build it, I look at it this way, "Why design it and watch others build it when I could design and help construct a masterpiece". Like I said with the programming, seeing the code I typed and seeing it function is exactly what I want to do, but hopefully on a larger scale in the future.