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One of the graduate students getting tips on her twisting design of the gate hook from amateur forgers.

March 10th, 2015

Welding:

I stand corrected from my previous statement - this was the most fantastic meeting I've ever been to! It was the most organized, which meant we were able to have a more individual experience.

There were 10-12 members of the Buckeye Iron Mongers, a hobby group for amateur welders and forgers, to help one-on-one with students. We were divided into three groups and sent to different activities: welding types/history video, welding and forging (each for forty-five minutes).

For the video, some people appeared completely enraptured by the monotone explanation of different types of welding, but more than half of us had our hands on our faces and drool dribbling out of our mouths, with one kid sleeping in the back of the classroom. Do not forget the safety video featuring cheesy eighties synth music and all the common sense safety knowledge we all have learned ten-fold from our standard high-school science classes.

Welding was one on one with people who hold occupations in the field. He let me practice for forty five minutes and gave me pointers like bringing the tip closer to the metal plate and chiseling off the gristle as soon as the welding is finished so I could observe how steady my lines were.

Each student made a decorative metal gate-hook with the forgers. This included twisting the middle for 1 3/4 turns with a wrench. Then we stuck the metal back into the forge and bents the end into a hook. This brought me right back to eighth grade art with Mr. Hume!

#welding #engineering #forging #buckeye iron mongers

Interview #2

If you are from Bradley, you already know this face! Meet Jack - a HBHS alumni and current engineering student at OSU.

He actually is not a volunteer with the Engineer Explorer Post, but I ran into him twice in the halls during our Tuesday meetings and asked him some questions about his college experience. Jack recommends to stay. on. top. of. studying. About two or three hours of studying for every class hour each week. He says keeping up his GPA for his freshman year has been difficult, but extremely necessary for getting accepted into the major. At OSU, freshman are accepted into their pre-major: this gives students opportunities to complete prerequisite courses. He says its nerve-wracking to not be accepted for a major yet but the school’s program is highly educational.

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A 3D-printer at OSU in an engineering lab.

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A video of the laser cutter creating these keychains for the students at the SolidWorks and 3D Printing meeting on Feb. 10th.

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February 10th, 2015

3D printing and SolidWorks:

By far this is the most impressive meeting so far. OSU gave all the attending students a temporary university student account so we could access the 3D modeling software called SolidWorks. They gave us a template and an hour of instruction to create our own ‘LEGO’ keychain design. Around 60% of the students used the software before in engineering classes, but I was lost from the start. It took me a very long time (and only crashed the application twice) to get the proportions right so the program would accept my design.

After finishing my keychain in the program, the director promised that if we send the file to her we could get it printed by next month’s meeting!

UPDATE FROM MARCH: Sadly we never got the email address nor a time slot to print the thirty-plus keychains. So here is what the finished product would’ve looked like!

#3d printing #solidworks #engineering #3d modeling

December 9th, 2014

Food Science:

Wow. This meeting was very unexpected. Never did I think I would watch cheese be made from scratch in an agriculture classroom. A professor of food science at OSU stood at the front of the room for two hours discussing the process of cheesemaking. I am writing this about two weeks following the meeting, but I still am in shock with what I witnessed. I’m not quite sure how this cheese curdling works with engineering. All the man talked about while making the mozzarella was how this is a hobby he does in his basement and the entire process of said cheese-making.

Thankfully, the last thirty minutes were led by a volunteer and was about quality of kernels for microwavable popcorn. She discussed how the water percentage inside the kernel determines if it can even ‘pop’ and how cracked kernels are prevented from reaching the shelves thanks to clever packaging design and transport.

#food science #engineering #popcorn #cheese

November 18th, 2014 cont.

Included in our optics discussion, we created spectrometers out of household items! Mere CDs, cereal boxes and duct tape created a way for me to see the colors built in to different kinds of lights. (The glasses are from viewing the previous presentations)

Below is a picture of the spectrum of a tungsten halogen lamp - there are no black lines in-between the colours because the lamp has a continuous spectrum.

#spectrometer #optics #engineering

November 18th, 2014

Electrical and Computer Science Engineering:

Today was only a lesson day. The teacher went through a series of powerpoints discussing how circuits and optics work. She assumed we already had knowledge of circuitry, but several student including myself have never taken engineering courses prior to the meetings and did not understand what she was talking about.

However, I did understand the optics discussion. She explained the creation of blue-red 3D images and the more realistic newer 3D. The now polarized 3D system which uses circularly polarized light to produce a stereoscopic image projection. We were handed out glasses and observed images. Some are shown below.

#optics #engineering #electrical engineering

Interview #1

Meet Naji - a first year biomedical engineering student at Ohio State University.

He recommends, not just to me but to all students interested in math/science based degrees, getting some core classes out of the way in high-school through Advanced Placement courses. Specifically mentioning Calculus AB, AP Chemistry and AP Physics:C as the main classes to knock out senior year.

I asked him why he decided on engineering and he said he choose it because of its broadening workforce and it would earn him more money than his major previous to him switching: Science and Arts.

#interview #engineering #biomedical engineering

October 14th, 2014

Mr. Potato-Head Assembly Line:

Tonight was the start for Explorer Post Engineering and we delved into the world of an Industrial Engineer. We learned how to make an assembly line more effective to cut costs. Before the hands-on experience, our volunteers and teacher gave a small presentation on quality and productivity. Sequential workflow depends on pull (specialized products) versus push (standard products).

Since almost sixty students showed up for the meeting, the director split us into eight separate assembly lines. Each line had a manager, two delivery workers and four assemblers. There were three trials: first we had a control and the next two were trials of seeing how much more efficient we could make the line. This included changing variables by cutting employees, redirecting the delivery of product and the ordering system of customized products.

Being the first meeting for Explorer Post Engineering, it was quite a surprising disappointment. I never considered assembly line management as a responsibility of an engineer. Nor did I think a toddlers’ toy would be used as an educational tool. It was a big realization for me that not all engineers have a job in the science field.

#engineering #industrial engineering #assembly line #productivity

September: Welcome!

What exactly is the Explorer Program?

A way for high school students, like me, to get exposure to real-life careers. When I went to the introductory session I found out there were explorer posts for twelve topics including: fire service, business, law and engineering. Knowing I want to go into biomedical engineering for my bachelor’s degree, I decided to sign-up for the Engineering Explorer Post. This will allow me to have a chance for seeing which degrees are most suitable for me to pursue in the field of engineering. Plus, there’s pizza before every meeting!

For the next few months I will be logging my experiences. Ohio State University was gracious enough to host every meeting with volunteers currently earning engineering degrees and teachers from their College of Engineering. Below I listed each meeting I am going to attend this school year:

October 14th - Industrial Systems Engineering

November 18th - Electrical and Computer Science Engineering

December 9th - Food Science and Engineering

February 10th - SolidWorks and 3D Printing

March 10th - Welding Engineering

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