Victor's Engineering Blog

Reverse Engineering Project Blog : Victor Nguyen Summary Through this project, I learned again what reverse engineering is. Reverse engineering is taking apart an item to see what it is made of and how it works. After choosing our groups and choosing an item that has more than 7 parts, my group wrote a proposal. The JetJat Nano Drone and Drone Remote has 10 parts, altogether. The batteries send energy through the wires, that power energy to the motherboard, which sends to signal to the drone when you move the joysticks. The screws interacts with the parts, because it keeps everything together. Engineers go through many steps of the EDP, to make this item, and now I know how it works. After six weeks of learning about conflict, I used it in this project. As you can see, this is what I learned in the Reverse Engineering project. Backward-Looking Before this project, I already knew what reverse engineering was because I did a similar project last year in another class. Even if I h...

Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image our build Summary For this project, we are working on our build portion of this End of the Year Project. We are to build our prototype. I learned many things in this project. My EOY group is me, Frank, and Jessica P. Our clients is Abram, Jennah, and Tiffany. We are to build their project, and they are to build our project. Our clients wanted to redesign the old garden area, right outside Ms Garcia's classroom. We wanted to redesign the cafeteria, and have more modernized furniture and color. I learned that we can connect our build to our mission statement, which is Revolutionizing a Space, Where Students can Hang Out and Feel Welcomed. If you we make our space more modernized, students might wanna go there. So as you can see, I learned many things doing this End of Year project.  Backward Looking Our work tells a story. It shows that we redesign this place. From a bland, boring place where not many students usually hang out and...

Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image This is our bridge. Summary For this project, I'd say was quite difficult. Like I've said in the past, in this project, we are to create a bridge that can have a farmer, a fox, a chicken, and corn to cross over a 1 meter bridge safely. I'd say this project was difficult, because we had less building time, and the material to build the bridge was quite hard to build with. Before building, me and my group kinda brainstormed some different bridges types, and chose to do arch, with some combination of some parts of other bridges. Then, we decided to use penne pasta, because it has a harder and stronger than some other pasta. So we decided on a penne and spaghetti pasta, arch bridge. In this project, I have learned many things, like the 6 different bridge types, beam, suspension, arch, truss, cantilever, and a cable stayed bridge. Each bridge has 4 different types of stresses, compression, tension, torsion, and shear forces. Com...

Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image This is a our tirfold and our eco house Summary At the beginning of the project, we were already assigned group. My group was me, Minh Anh, Jewel, and Ben. No offense to Ben or Jewel. Even though half our group wasn't or didn't much of the work, we were still able to complete the task of the project. The task of the project was to build a house that was eco-friendly. Before building, we did our green write up. I learned that instead of spending hundreds of dollars on heating and cooling, you first close up any leaks at door or windows. This way the air can stay inside the house. Or you can use central heating and cooling, by using heat exchangers, blowers, burners, and less gas. You never want to use too much gas, because that's polluting the earth. Even though I didn't necessarily researched, or wrote about these parts in the green write up, I still learned about them since I have to present the project myself during S...

Sound Amplification Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image/Links: Our finished device Link to Manual:  https://docs.google.com/a/oakgrovesd.net/document/d/1ExTEDaXqIdBsOPZ7hHIS_zR0nLNrBYs_zjVFvatH8qc/edit?usp=sharing Summary At the beginning of the project, we assigned/chose our groups, which is me, Pierson, Abram, and Ben. Our task was to create a device that was portable and could amplify sound, in a room or party. In order to create a prototype, you need to have multiple ideas, just in case. We learned having many ideas was a good thing, because sometime you could be wrong and have more to come. Everything in the middle was the same, because we had to build a prototype. But after we tested, we learned that holes needed to covered up to prevent any loose sound from coming out.  Near the end, we had to make an ignite presentation. We learned that we had to do a maximum of 15 slides and have it advance every 15 seconds, which will be under 2 minutes. Instead,...

Reverse Engineering Project Blog : Victor Nguyen Image This is invisible ink. We used OUR flashlight, with homemade UV. It works. Summary As Mrs. Garcia had said, this project has been taking a while, and is getting boring. At the beginning of this project, my group was Abram, Frank, and Pierson. We chose the reverse engineer the flashlight, because it was simple. The steps of this project is, Proposal, Manual, Make It Better, Put It All Together, and presenting. When we were working on our proposal, we just hypothesized of how much it cost, did some light measurements of the flashlight, and said why we chose this item. In the manual, we actually did everything in depth, such as measurements, cost, and explanation. We decided to make it better, by making it UV. Before this, we even decided to present this for Student Exhibition Night, to appreciate Mrs. Garcia. But sooner later, we took too long on this project. Our group didn't mind, because it was a good project s...

Engineering Design Loop Arrangement Project Blog Image Summary This week, I learned plenty of things. For example, I learned that there are 8 steps in the EDL and in the S&EP. The 8 different steps are Define the Problem, Research Problem, Develop Solutions, Best Solutions, Test Prototype, Redesign, and Communicate Results. Since Mrs. Garcia was out for a day, we didn't have any tech, so we watched a video and  learned  many things. For instance, I learned that there are some things/advances out there that are impossible but you can turn them possible. As you can see, this week, I  learned  plenty of things. Backward Looking I probably knew some things before this project. I knew some of the steps in the Science & Engineering Practice. So I knew some of this steps in this. Besides that, I didn't know much about this Engineering Design Loop. I found about these steps, because I used the website that Mrs. Garcia gave us. That website help...

Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image Summary For this hat project, I have learned many things. For instance, I have learned the main thing about electromechanical engineer. That main thing, is that they design and build electronic circuits, for video games, amusement parks, airplane circuits, etc. To become that engineer, you can study at mainly any university, but you need at least a Bachelor's degree, with 4 years or more in college. Electromechanical engineers have to work up to 40 hours a week and they get paid up to $120,000. Some companies have electromechanical engineers, like Texas Instruments, Intel, etc. Backward - looking Before I got assigned this subject, I didn't know much about this topic. I probably knew what an engineer is, but not an electromechanical engineer. For example, I knew engineers design and build different things. In the name, 'Electromechanical Engineer' is electro, so I thought this engineer design and build things that have to...