Victor's Engineering Blog

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week, with my group, I am almost done with the ' prototype or scale model' step of the "Make and Test a Model."  Summary This week, I would say we have done many things. This whole week, we continued to build and finish of model of the eco house. For example, on Monday, since half of group wasn't here, me and my other teammate, Minh Anh, had to make some furnishing. We could not glue down to our house, because the model was with our teammate. We should have finished by last Friday. But, since some of us didn't finish, we a bit extra time. On Tuesday, since the half of our team wasn't here, we had one of them, Ben, had his mom bring it in. So they did. Me and Minh Anh continued to make more furnishings, like the kitchen and dining room. On Wednesday, since now that our whole team is here, we had more help. Me and Ben worked on the first floor, while Minh Anh and Jewel worked on the second floor, w

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week, I have complete the background research  part of my project. Now, with the help of my group, we are brainstorming solutions  for our eco house. Summary This week, I would say we have done many things. For example, on Monday, we continued to finish up our green write up. I have finished my part. On Tuesday, we are doing any final touches to our green write up as to it due. I have learned different ways to say the amount of heating and cooling, to use it, with more eco-friendly solutions. On Wednesday, we started to think of ideas of what we should have in our house. I came up with a one story house that had the same outline as a house I once lived in. My team members, Minh Anh and Ben came with their own house plan. At the end, we came up with one house, that had what we all wanted. We still have to remember that this all ties into a eco-house, which means we shouldn't have something that would take up too much energy

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week, I am finishing up the background research  step of the Define the Problem  stage. By next week, I should start to brainstorm some solutions.  Summary This week, we have started on a new project, called the Eco-House Project. We were put into new groups. My group is me, Ben, Minh Anh, and Jewel. In this first part of this project, I have learn that many people use a lot of money, on heating and cooling. But with that money, they are using on gases, that pollutes the world, and that is never the planet and for living things. Instead, people should be living in houses that are eco-friendly, so that they spend their money wisely on heating, cooling, gases, etc. that is good for the ecosystem. On Monday, we didn't have school. On Tuesday, we were introduced on this project, we chose our spot for our house, and we started on our green write up. On Wednesday, we continued to work on our green write up. On Thursday, Ms. Garc