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Blog Entry #13

To continue with, if cars are not enough of a reason for you to want to like the mechanical engineering field, then you can look at the energy we use. This makes since with all this brutal chemistry and physics science classes that engineers must take just to get that glorified degree. It makes since though, with engineers having to take in weight distribution to cars and wind impact, then surely they can design ways to capture that energy as well. If a car has to go through that air as aerodynamically as possible, then there are things that can be designed to capture that air and use it to produce different types of energy. Just look at all the wind turbines that are up as you do the drive from Pullman to Seattle or vice-versa. These wind turbines produce 10 percent of Puget Sound Energy, the suppliers for the Seattle area. Yet another reason the engineering field is amazing, just to know what kind of impacts that there can be on our future energy usage.

All in all, the mechanical engineering field is a great field with a vast future. Ranging from transportation to energy, there really isn’t anything that this field doesn’t encompass. Whether you are a car junky, air nut, or green goer, the field is the ideal for everything. Overall with my interview and research, I am excited for this field and entering it in my future. Hopefully one day, I can contribute to something that you yourself spend money on to help you with your daily grind.

I change my intros to each sentence so that they aren’t the typical intros that I have noticed myself falling into. I also put in numbers to support my reasons so that it would leave a more interesting point in the readers mind. In my final paragraph, I tried to incorporate more voice so that the reader would feel me, and also leave a better feeling at the end of the essay.

Blog post #12!!!

Blog 12:

     After looking further into my ethnography essay, I’ve got one main concern about the essay. The concern is what exactly to focus on my topic rather than having such a big focus. The things that I enjoy about writing about this topic are that too, learning what the entire Mechanical engineering field is about. Also, I like the interview portion of this essay, as it includes a hands on focus towards the essay, and it lets you look into the mind of a person in that field.

My (rough) introductory to my essay:

                                                 The Crafts of the Engineer

                When you think of an engineer, what all does it really have. The fact is that they impact everything that you really use. From the computer that typed this essay, to the car or bus that delivered this computer to its location. Engineers even have impacts on how the building you are standing in was designed. Where all does this lead to impacting me? The field of Mechanical Engineering is where we further our story of industrial endeavors. The range of this field is fascinating and the thoughts of just where it could take us. Mechanical engineering does the work on all our mechanical technologies that we have today, ranging from fountains and cars to airplanes and plumbing. As my quest to fully understand this field has lead me to interviewing Bill Williams, who worked at Boeing for 40 years, to researching what mechanical engineering has been doing on other projects to help further our laziness to the extreme all for making life easier.

Blog Entry #11

Blog Entry #11: Interview Questions

Here are some of the questions that I plan to ask in my interview:

      

             1.       What made you want to become an engineer?

             2.       What is the part of your job that you enjoy the most?

             3.       How long have you been working as an engineer?

For my interview, I will be talking to Bill Williams. He is working in the engineering department at Boeing. I’ve known Bill for about a year now, and have talked to him through email mostly, so I plan to do my interview over interviews.

The questions that I will be asking are going to be both, closed and open-ended. The variety of my questions is pretty good, but still sticks to the point of engineering. I think that I won’t have to add more variety because I’m pretty happy with how my questions are of right now.

After viewing other students’ blogs, I feel I could use a little bit of revising on my questions. I feel mine are almost at a done stage, but they could use a little touch up here and there.