Packaging Project
The Packaging Project was a one day seminar and 7 days creating a package. This package was to be able to hold 3 pots and ship to Colorado and back to MTA successfully. Not only creating the box was the challenge but doing it in a timely fashion and economically.
At the beginning of the project My team had been briefed of what we had to do and the deadline. Our goal was to design, fabricate, test and ship the package. We were assigned seminars to attend and specialize in certain parts of the project. I attended the certification and design seminars. After attending, I instantly went to work designing the BMC. Using simple programs like Microsoft word and Paint. From there I worked with a fellow team member on figuring out the values I had to list on the BMC, such values are environmental factor, edge crush test. These numbers were found from equations given to one of the other members that went to the applied physics seminar. After creating the BMC, I printed it off and tapped it to the bottom of the box, located in the upper left corner.
Towards the end of the project I ended up taking over a few other jobs due to the loss of team members from illness and college. I took over some of the accounting and rechecking some of the numbers. The total values on the spread sheet were miscalculated and had a major role in our bid price. I received the highest score on my team. I hadn't realized I was the leader. I was motivating, telling people what to do. We had a deadline and we lost team members so all of us faced a heavy work load. I didn't want any wasted time, I never pushed them too much I just wanted them to realize how far behind we were.
With this project I used skills from English and Physics to create a properly engineered box that can absorbed large amounts of force. With many of the people on our team in physics we created a series of corrugated cardboard specifically designed to crush on impact.
English Skills
-Evaluate own and others’ effectiveness in group discussions and formal presentations (e.g., considering accuracy, relevance, clarity, and delivery; types of arguments used; and relationships among purpose, audience, and content).
-Use technology tools (e.g, word processing, presentation and multimedia software) to produce polished written and multimedia work (e.g., literary and expository works, proposals, business presentations, advertisements).
Tech Skills
- Identify and use common hand tools
- Estimate and measure the size of objects using SI and US units
Employability
-Prioritize work
-Generate & select from alternative strategies to solve problems
At the beginning of the project My team had been briefed of what we had to do and the deadline. Our goal was to design, fabricate, test and ship the package. We were assigned seminars to attend and specialize in certain parts of the project. I attended the certification and design seminars. After attending, I instantly went to work designing the BMC. Using simple programs like Microsoft word and Paint. From there I worked with a fellow team member on figuring out the values I had to list on the BMC, such values are environmental factor, edge crush test. These numbers were found from equations given to one of the other members that went to the applied physics seminar. After creating the BMC, I printed it off and tapped it to the bottom of the box, located in the upper left corner.
Towards the end of the project I ended up taking over a few other jobs due to the loss of team members from illness and college. I took over some of the accounting and rechecking some of the numbers. The total values on the spread sheet were miscalculated and had a major role in our bid price. I received the highest score on my team. I hadn't realized I was the leader. I was motivating, telling people what to do. We had a deadline and we lost team members so all of us faced a heavy work load. I didn't want any wasted time, I never pushed them too much I just wanted them to realize how far behind we were.
With this project I used skills from English and Physics to create a properly engineered box that can absorbed large amounts of force. With many of the people on our team in physics we created a series of corrugated cardboard specifically designed to crush on impact.
English Skills
-Evaluate own and others’ effectiveness in group discussions and formal presentations (e.g., considering accuracy, relevance, clarity, and delivery; types of arguments used; and relationships among purpose, audience, and content).
-Use technology tools (e.g, word processing, presentation and multimedia software) to produce polished written and multimedia work (e.g., literary and expository works, proposals, business presentations, advertisements).
Tech Skills
- Identify and use common hand tools
- Estimate and measure the size of objects using SI and US units
Employability
-Prioritize work
-Generate & select from alternative strategies to solve problems