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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.

Blog # 10

Clair Lauer's "Technological Journey"

  After reading Claire Lauer’s “Technological Journey”, I learned one major thing that I started noticing as I was working on my drafts. As Clair Lauer kept going along with her remediation, she kept finding better ways of showing her point and I seem to be going through the same thing in my project with pictures and ideas.

   Also, when Lauer talked about why she chose Prezi as her presenting tool, it made since because it was similar to why I chose Prezi for mine. What I wasn’t thinking about that she talked about was using it as a one page presentation tool that you could zoom in and talk more descriptively about each subject on the main page ultimately giving you more pages.

   This example is good for me and almost gives a reassuring feeling that it’s ok to be constantly changing my draft every time that I take a look at it.  The fact that it’s eventually going to give me the outcome that I am looking for from seeing the work process the Lauer went through in making her own remediation.

Link to Clair Lauer’s “Technological Journey”

Blog entry #8

   

Remediation To Writing

    After reading the article on WikiBooks of Digital Rhetoric/Remediation and Remix, I saw the website lead to one meaning of remediation. The website says that remediation is like reviving an old subject to a more “now” style. Taking something that was great that is now outdated, to making it more up to date and more suited for the now standards.

    The examples used in the website are helpful in showing ways to remediate ideas. They show that text is ok to use in websites, but the text that is used is very in depth and has lots of meaning of what they are talking about. The pictures are also used so you can get rid of some of your text to help provoke a point and make it have more impact on what the viewer is looking at. They show pictures of someone doing something that the website is advertising, instead of using plain boring text talking about the fun in the environment.

     For my subject, rule changes in football for the good, I see a few ways I can show meaning about the reasons instead of text telling it. For instance, I can show videos of the after effects of head to head hits and how the person has to live instead of text telling the reader of the life-changing effects. Also, I can make the reader feel more sorrow and guilt about the rules and make their feeling of sorrow come out and then make them want the rule changes to be more-so implicated.

    Questions I have regarding this article towards my subject really are that if the argument is more of a current debate already happening in the now, how do I actually remediate the subject? Do I want to focus more off a video argument to get rid of text, or try and change focus to a different audience and refocus my ideas towards keeping the now and implicating changes for the future?

Click Here for website on remediation

Blog Entry #6

Blog Entry #6

     My writing process so far is a little behind from where I would like it to be, I feel as though I am a little bit behind on my sources and feel like I’m not entering them into my paper as much as I should. I feel as though that I can make my paper stronger if I  use them to more focus the counter arguments.

    I feel that my research process is better than how it reflects through my paper. As I stated before, I feel that my sources are there, just that I need to invoke them more into my paper so that they make a bigger and more lasting effect on the audience.

    After reading Zinsser’s article on Clutter, I liked how he used weeds as his example. A weed is something really that you don’t want it to grow where it is, and that really is clutter in your paper. If you don’t need to make a certain point bounce around in your paper, don’t. Trying to fake it to make it works in some parts of the paper but not all. If you think that a certain point of your paper needs more description, then use the description, and it’s fine to do that. Where if you are at a part of your paper that doesn’t need to be continued, then don’t because back to the weed reference, then it doesn’t make your yard or paper look as good as it should be.

Zinsser's article, Clutter

Blog 5

Blog Entry #5 – Academic Research

    Academic research is a very relevant aspect to our lives today. Whether it is for an essay or just to talk about something, it is better to have done research on what that subject is. Not only does it give you more facts to bring forward on the issue, but you have more confidence about what it is you are talking about.

    In my field, there are a couple of ways that research will help me. For mechanical Engineering I can do research to help understand why certain things are built like they are, like how a car or truck is built. Also, I can look into why certain builds a more power efficient than another style of build.

    I chose this image that best fits my attitude towards academic research because I see research assignments being different paths. To start off, you can take the path that starts you in the beginning looking the same if you don’t look over your research, but then the path starts getting tough and hard. The other path gets easier as you go if you go through your research and understand it so that you can reference it more easily the further down the path or writing of the paper you go. After seeing research like this, I see it as a necessary step towards any paper, so I don’t love it, nor do I hate it.