Week 10

Week 10

            In the previous lab section we got the chance to test the group’s final bridge model.  All groups competed against each other to try to attain the best cost to cost to pound ratio.  Our group didn’t expect to win the competition originally because we knew that our bridge was really expensive and we didn’t predict it to hold more than 40 pounds of weight.  It was shocking to first see that the bridge was been able to hold so much weight and it wouldn’t collapse and best of to see that we were able to pull the best ratio of all the class.  Our bridge was able to pull up a cost to pound ratio of $8542.88.

            I found this Engineering design project to be my favorite of all the year.  I liked the way that the course was structured throughout the whole term and dividing every assignment in a really easy and effective time manner.  This was really helpful because it divided the workload in reasonable time amounts that will not pill up everything for the last minute.  I found all the material explored in this course worthwhile and really interesting.  I think that the way that they were set and their structure were essential for us to have a basic understanding of bridges and be able to design one.  Although I had some little knowledge about bridges I did learn some really interesting and important material through this course.  I think that the most significant piece of knowledge that I learn was by using WPBD.   I found this program to be really interesting an efficient by letting us know what work the best for bridges.  I was able to test different bridge designs that I though about and was able to know which structure worked the best.  The least beneficial topic explored was the one about teamwork because I think that teamwork skills are learning through each experience.  I don’t have any significant suggestion for the improvement of this design project.  I think that all of it was really well structured and planned.