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What is the blue color of a small programmable computer with a loud hum and hovering on the surface? This is "Blue Banshee", a hovercraft, created by the student team of TMCC engineering professor Daniel Loranz Engineering 100 course. This is an introductory design course designed to teach students the hard skills and skills needed to continue their journey in the engineering field. Soft skills.
Andrew Wischer is one of four students on the Blue Banshee team. As an engineering student, Wischer set his sights on the career of a mechanical engineer. He found this course very valuable. This course taught him many skills, including welding, robotics, circuits, lift and propulsion His characteristics, as well as some soft skills, including teamwork, organization and oral reports explaining his design and problem-solving process.
However, just a few weeks before the last test run of the hovercraft, Wischer and his teammates are trying to keep their creation going in a straight line. They basically got it down, although when the buzzing spacecraft passed the space between the two tables, it would turn slightly to the right. The four students in the team work together to adjust the calibration of the fans to see if this solves the problem.
Lowlands recently reorganized the curriculum to include additional courses on the specific skills students need to build a fully functional hovercraft. He said that the one-semester hovercraft project may be the student’s favorite, but it’s more like a Students participate in the exercises of all activities. Tasks related to becoming a professional engineer. This includes not only designing, constructing, and solving problems, but also record keeping, organizing information, meeting deadlines, and introducing their work and processes.
When students start the hovercraft project, Lowlands will guide them through a series of checkpoints that require each group to reach and record specific milestones. These include generating ideas for the design of the hovercraft, preparing a budget for the materials for the construction of the hovercraft, and of course, the business of building and perfecting the design so that it can perform the final task: the hovercraft needs to follow the black line and an independent low-friction platform from start to finish.
"First of all, all the teams got some supplies," Lolands explained. These include simple programmable computers, wiring and light sensors. The rest—hovercraft platform, fan, and any other materials—are the result of a student-driven design process and must be budgeted.
The newly reorganized curriculum also includes small projects to help students develop the skills needed for large hovercraft projects while waiting for the parts to arrive. One skill recently added to the course is a project that teaches welding: Lowlands describes this skill as a skill that is difficult to master, but its basic knowledge is easy to learn. While assembling a simple flashlight, the students learned to weld well enough to complete a larger hovercraft project.
Both Wischer and his team agreed that this course taught them many skills through a highly interactive hands-on experience, which is very different from their experience in high school. "Working together and practicing problem solving is definitely a challenge," he said. Obviously, the fast-paced courses are preparing him for his career through the skills he and his classmates are learning.
This is intentional: Lowlands explained that although many students are attached to their hovercraft projects, the end result is not the only determinant of their success or failure in class. In addition to all hands-on skills, students are also responsible for recording the progress of the project throughout the semester. Their final report—and the quality of record keeping and organization—is the focus.
It is true that the students of the Blue Banshee team, including Nick Reddicks, Luke Archer and Bobby Jovel, have seen the value of the courses offered by their blue hovercraft, whose platform is made of blue tarp, tape and insulating foam.
"Working on the team on this project was a great experience," Redicks said. "We are learning to do some things: welding, robotics and circuit work. This is definitely an interesting lesson."
For more information about studying engineering at TMCC, please contact the Department of Physical Sciences at 775-673-7183.
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