My essential question is what practices are in places at a successful workplace? I wanted to work in a professional environment to see how a company functioned. I was also[…]
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CR6
Throughout my senior project experience, I found myself returning to my initial question as well as my inspiration and intent for this project. chose to build a bass using nonelectric[…]
CR 5
My essential question for my experience building a bass is does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and[…]
Week 6
On the last official week of the senior project, I got very close to finishing the bass but plan to finish it in the coming week before the presentation. At[…]
Week 5
At the beginning of this week, I made a major mistake, I needed to thin down the headstock enough so the tuners would fit all the way through. Instead of[…]
Julia CR #6
My Essential Question was “What does the future of engineering look like as our environment changes?” with a sub question of “Can I get a better understanding of the design[…]
Critical Reflection #6
Why Excel?: During my senior fall, I was a part of the existentialism class where one of my main takeaways was that humans rarely get the opportunity to explore a[…]
Jaquie’s CR 6
EQ: How are various healthcare facilities around the world dealing with COVID-19, and how can understanding this help make the healthcare system more fair and equitable for all? Throughout these[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #6
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Final reflection on Senior Project. Throughout my Senior Project, I was able to learn a[…]
Elisabeth CR 6
Elisabeth 5/18/20 Senior Project CR #6 EQ: What is the science of cooking? Throughout the six weeks of senior project I found that my essential question ended up not having[…]
Julia Week 6: Blog #2
This last week wasn’t the last push that I thought it would be, but I’m proud of the work I did. There was no feeling of culmination, it was more[…]
Max Zinman: Final Update
I have thoroughly enjoyed my Senior Project. Every single aspect was an utter joy from beginning to end, and I learned a TON while doing it! First, some answers to[…]
Jaquie’s Week 6
Throughout my final week, I started to put everything together, organized everything into a final document, and started to put them into paragraphs along with some notes. Although my original[…]
Nika’s Blog #8
This is my final weekly assignment. It was about internal communication. Internal communications is all about promoting effective communications among people within an organization. It involves producing and delivering messages[…]
Nika’s Blog #7
This week I learned about benefits and the importance of having benefits and rewards in business. One of the things that I was given to think and read about was[…]
Nika’s Blog #6
This week I worked on setting goals. Some of the things that I learned are that goals trigger behavior. Having a clear, compelling goal mobilizes your focus toward actionable behavior.[…]
Week 6 Elisabeth
This week I made croissants. It was definitely one of the more stressful things I’ve made because I felt like there were many things that could go wrong very easily,[…]
Nika’s CR #5
One of the things that I have learned through my senior project is the need for structure and outside motivation. At first I thought it would be great to have[…]
Nika’s CR #4
I watched a Ted Talk by Dan Airely about behavioral economics. He starts off by saying that in the US, we spend between seven and eight hundred million dollars a[…]
Pierre’s CR #5
Essential Question: To what extent does the role of Excell play in businesses and how much more efficient does it make work for people who use it? As one[…]
Week 4
On week four of my senior project, I finished getting the body to shape with files and rasps working on getting out small imperfections and bumps. I then made the[…]
Julia CR #5
I’ve written many times about the sort of split nature of my essential question so I’ll spare you the definitions and just get right into it. In terms of research[…]
Critical Reflection 4
Throughout this experience, there have been a lot of different experiences that have brought into question my essential question and the way I have framed it. Throughout this process my[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #5
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Metacognition Incidentally, my entire senior project is actually about metacognition. My question is mainly about[…]
Jaquie’s 5th CR
EQ: How are various healthcare facilities around the world dealing with COVID-19, and how can understanding this help make the healthcare system more fair and equitable for all? Over the[…]
CR 5 Elisabeth
Elisabeth Seiple Critical Reflection #5 5/11/20 Throughout the process of my senior project I’ve noticed that the most effective process for me and for successfully working on my project is[…]
Week 5 Reflection Elisabeth
I spent the majority of this week catching up on week 4 week like writing the posts for my blog and finishing up research. I also spent some time trying[…]
Julia Week 5: Blog #2
This week mostly consisted of textbook work again. It’s been about fluid power systems. There were no new revelations this week. Although I do notice that I’m getting better at[…]
Max Zinman: Blog Post, Week of 5/4
This week in senior project, I continued to work on my essay, learned about circuits in Sustainable Energy and led discussions on homework problems more in class. On the note[…]
Jaquie’s week 5
This past week I was tying off the loose ends to topics that I wanted to learn more about or didn’t know that much on. Due to Coronavirus being in[…]
Ari Week 4
I have finished many smaller projects but have been putting off my larger documentary. I think it is because it’s been difficult to keep up with. I’ve been trying to[…]
Ari Cer 3
When originally making the video I had not known the meaning or message behind it. After the shoot, Reggi realized how he had portrayed himself in an inaccurate way and[…]
Julia CR #4
The first, Civil Engineers and their Role in Adaptation in the face of Climate Change (link), was a bit more like an exclamation of what should be done. It felt[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #4
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Text investigation of outside sources Source 1: https://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protege-effect/ Source 2: https://effectiviology.com/protege-effect-learn-by-teaching/ In both of the[…]
Senior Project Blog Post 4
For this blog post I just want to talk about what I have been doing for my internship. After my first assignment, which was to gather to 100 top trending[…]
Senior Project Blog Post Week 3
For my third week of senior project studies, I focused more on the making music aspect of my project because I had less work to do for my internship. After[…]
Senior Project Blog Post Week 2
My second week has also been a good, productive one. For my internship at Tempo, what I mostly did this week was join group zoom calls with the members of[…]
Senior Project Blog Post Week 1
Throughout my first week I have been starting to work with Tempo Music Investments while also making music independently. Right away for my internship, I was given the task of[…]
Jaquie’s 4th CR
EQ: How are various healthcare facilities around the world dealing with COVID-19, and how can understanding this help make the healthcare system more fair and equitable for all? The[…]
Elisabeth CR 4
Elisabeth Seiple CR 4 5/5/20 The two outside sources I chose throughout the senior project process are somewhat similar in that they both explore fundamentally the same idea, that cooking[…]
Ari Cer 2
The impact of the virus and the evolution of this pandemic has taken many turns since I first began writing and crafting my film. As my message is still the[…]
cr3
My essential question has been in this process does use hand tools and traditional woodworking methods create an artistic connection to the instrument I build? As I approach the end[…]
Critical Reflection #4
Pierre’s CR#4
Julia Week 4: Blog #2
I’ve never really officially worked with circuits, so I was ready to get to this part of the textbook. I learned a lot, but what I’m most proud of is[…]
5/3 Reflection Elisabeth
This week I ran an experiment to see how I could make the scientifically fluffiest cake. I baked four cakes (technically five because I accidentally made two controls), each had[…]
Max Zinman: Week of April 27
At this point in my project I have started made some decent headway into writing my paper on lasers. I’ve also noticed something about where I’m finding answers to my[…]
Jaquie’s Week 4
After finishing the paper from the survey, I started to continue my research. My mentor sent me a zoom event on The Roles of Racism & For-Profit Healthcare in Pandemic[…]
Jaquie’s #4 update
This week I started to look into the survey I conducted in mid April and decided that I would write a research paper based on the answers. I asked about[…]
Nika’s CR #3
This week I talked to my mentor about my essential question during our half way feedback session. I came to the conclusion, with the help of Tom’s guidance and talking[…]
Blog Post #5
This week I worked on the importance of mentoring and trying to create a mentoring program. There are two options for a mentoring program. One way is to choose a[…]