Decmber Blog post

Gnvjn Being that this is my last post of this year, I work like to say HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE/ New Year's Day!. I've enjoyed this school year very much and it's an honor to work beside great students and amazing teachers! 

Enough said, for this month in my mentorship, my mentor and the engineering team were focusing a lot of time on their finals and I understood the stress that they were undergoing so I didn't try asking to much of their help. I still was able to attend many events but my favorite event that I got to attend was the Robo Olympics. The robo Olympics was a 404 class project with one of the guys on my team, Ian , and his team was to work on a smaller robot to compete in a series of challenges such as tug of war, seek and destroy, uphill climb, and the first impressions. His team scored 2nd in the first impressions challenge and this was the robot:

The shell was the part I didn't like cause the powder that it was giving off due to the sanding was seriously irritating my nose: 

I literally have to move far away cause I couldn't stop sneezing !

When it came to the event, I was only able to tape the first event due to my phone dying but here's the links to the tug of war event.;

Link 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUyYdwIP2A&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Link 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ATJ0uKuxZ4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

In the end Still better than SLO ( our robot ) got 3rd place because it lost all the events except two. 

When it comes to the upcoming winter quarter, I will be working on the FPGA so that should be fun!

Extra blog post 2 November

Nothing much has changed since my other post this month because my team is on break as well, so I have nothing to report on, all I'm doing is getting money to gets computer that way I can do some work on my own for the FPGA on UGV ground station. Next blog will include more details for that. 

Blog 9: EQ

1.   Review this.  Confirm by stating "I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ."
Essential Question 
Once a topic is chosen, the student will develop a working essential question.  The purpose of the working essential question is to help the student build a strong foundation of research which will allow him or her to create an essential question that encourages depth and rigor in the chosen topic.  An essential question must:

• Provide a framework for studies (It calls for breadth and depth of research, Is not a yes/no question)
• Takes a stance (Allows you to argue some point, Cannot be a recitation of facts or a list)
•  Format (It is specific, The wording makes sense)

2.  Review the following EQs and

• Tell us if it meets the rule of 3 criteria.
• Tell why it does or why it doesn't

 a.  What is the most important factor in healthy weight loss?

- Well obviously the topic is addressed as "weight loss". The way the wording is stated leaves this EQ very open ended with a variety of answers. This question is also not a simple yes or no question it requires some backround knowledge or further research to answer the question. All in all I think this EQ does in fact cover the requirements to qualify as a good EQ.

 b.  What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?

- This topic in all honesty when phrased like this makes it really hard to answer the question. The way the sentence is phrased is too complex and doesn't let the question flow well. Although the subject does call for intense research, I don't feel this a good EQ.

 c.  What is most important in creating a hairstyle that best satisfies a customer?

- the wording on this seems a little too random, the flow from most important to creating a hairstyle is just too rough. The EQ is also a bit confusing for me because I don't know what it's asking for, like is it asking for hair styles techniques or etc what is it?! I don't think this EQ is a good EQ.

 d.  How can an Anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?

-I like how this question is phrased, it is smooth and to the point, yet simple. It would require a bit of information to answer and it isnt just a simple yes or no question. There are many wYs you can answer this question and I think its a great EQ.

3.  Based on your review of the rule of 3 and your experience with assessing four EQs, please write another draft EQ for your senior project.

What is the most important thing in electrical engineering (within UAV & UGV's).

By the way "I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ."

Extra blog post

I haven't really done much, but lately I've been working on ASCII. ASCII is similar in binary, except instead of operating off a series of 1's and 0's, it uses letters like ABC. although it's better for people to see what it says, it actually takes up more space, so binary can take up one byte, while the same binary translated into ASCII would be four bytes. Well that's all for now, I should have more by the 30th of this month. By the way here's the UGV I talked about. 

Extra Blog Post

 Alright so this month has revealed a lot of wonderful surprises, especially finding two mentorships, one being at Boeing, and the other being with a Grad student from Cal poly.  I also am working with Brenden, Bryan, and many more seniors on a robot, so we can enter it into a competition.

Bryan and Brenden, I was there as well I just took the picture. We were constructing an arena to do a few test runs for our robot.

This is our robot. Well a verity of designs for it. 

Next time I have to do an extra post, Ill include stuff with my mentorship. The reason I didnt mention that is because I haven't typed up my notes and posted my pics for them yet, so next time I will post on that behalf. 

Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?

What are the most important aspects/features of electrical engineering?

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.

 -(more of a personal stand point I noticed) Logic and reasoning skills are also helpful for electrical engineers to determine in what order operations should occur, which components must be engaged in each step of the process and how they should perform. 

-(mechanical Feature) The ability to control and regulate a waveform weather it be Direct or Alternative currents flowing through a terminal safely and efficiently with minimal power loss. includes how it flows through resistors inductors and also capacitors.


3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ? 

Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers, its a book covering th e basics of electrical engineering, and it has been a huge help, When I first started reading it, it only covered a few basics but as I started advancing, it started to go more in depth with the math behind the components and how they function. Its Made me understand different aspects that I can look at to answer my EQ such as energy storage between transfering energy, and transfering energy safely without any power lost or the energy damaging the components.

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

My mentor's name is Eric Williams of Lockheed Martin Corporation (can vary, its diferent people everytime), I honestly have to say I haven't been able to completely answer what im looking for about my EQ because I havent had alot of time, mostly because of the government shutdown.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

In the robotics club, we are covering basics of circuits and basic currents (involving resistors, dielectrics, insulators, etc) and a few components  then they are going to show me how to set these components up and how to install them to there proper spot. thats what I know for sure at this point. To continue with my research, as well as continue with a hands on approach, I joined the robotics club. I'm working with Bryan and Brendan on the engineering team.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I've started to take pictures of plans and blue prints we've drawn on the drawing board. We are working on an Edrawing that is basically our blueprint of our robot, I'll be asking if I can post pictures of the design, but if not I'll show pictures of our previous designs, better yet we just ordered our parts to construct it, so I'll definitely have pictures of us building it.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

Im basically working with a group of students from Cal Poly, along with a few seniors and juniors. Its kinda hard collaborating but we all get our ideas onto the board one way or another. When they showed us some of the circuits, I felt a bit lost cause I didn't really understand the functions or properties of the components, but I'm slowly starting to get it.