Senior Project Reflection

Directions: Please answer the following questions and turn it in to the blog.

Due Date: The day after your two-hour presentation by 8:00 A.M.

(1) Positive Statement

I am proud of making time during my 2 hour because I was going through my answers really fast at first and by my third answer, I was able to tie things back to my previous answers and summarize the presentation. Everyone told me that I was very factual and people like thine information I gave.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)? Why?

AE           P            AP            CR            NC

P/AP. I feel that I did what was required but there were some times where I had to flip back to a previous slide to show an example and some may have felt it seemed unprepared. However, I was relaxed and followed through the presentation and felt I only had minor problems.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? Why?

AE             P            AP            CR            NC

P/AP. Again, I did everything that was required, however, I dd turn things in late which is why I may have gone down. Since I changed my EQ, there was a time where I kind of fell behind since my project was kind of put on pause. If lateness was not a factor, I feel I probably deserve a P.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

Being able to work in a hospital for my service learning and talk to those in the medical field. It was helpful for my project, as well as making new connections in the career field. It was a great experience to feel firsthand what the medical field is like.

(4) What didn’t work for you in your senior project?

My initial EQ. My first EQ which is what I was going off of for most of the year really felt like I was limited and I wanted to expand more. In doing this, I gave myself a shorter time to find a lot of useful research and it was pretty hard to understand the complex mechanics and calculations and stuff. Some of the vocab was hard and I had to figure out what everything meant compared to before I changed my EQ where I had background knowledge.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples. 

It has given me experience in the medical field and the opportunity to work with medical equipment such as IV pumps, patient monitors, pulse oximeter, etc. Winston, my service learning mentor, has even told me that I receive training similar to most biomeds. Also, the research I have done has given me a better idea of what the career is all about and some of the different methods they have when making a prosthetic. I feel that I am much more ready now to go into biomedical engineering as a career field and to study it in college.

2 Hour Presentation

Lesson plan link is posted at right ----->

Service Learning

Content:

(1) LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

·       Kathleen Riveros - (951)233-2150 ext. 2195

    Interpretive

The experience of being a biomedical engineer and working with common medical equipment in a hospital and receiving training similar to biomed trainees.

   Applied

It helped me answer my initial EQ because I got to work in a hospital and perform tasks that clinical biomedical engineers perform on a daily basis. 

Independent Component 2

Literal

(a) Statement saying: “I, Kenji Karuhaka, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.” 

(b) For my independent component, I decided to complete tasks that require some kind of technical or mechanical work. I looked at circuit boards and soldered off components such as diodes, resistors, and capacitors of different sizes. My father also taught me about how to remove and replace components without damaging the traces in the board. I also have had problems with my laptop and replaced the LCD monitor and d/c input jack for the charger. While I was replacing the monitor, I originally thought it was a bad connector, however, after testing a new one, I realized the LCD was damaged. I also worked on my R/C car. At my service learning, I was told that it is good for biomeds to have hobbies such as R/C since it teaches about basic electronics as well as allowing you to practice different skills. This caused me to get back into R/C and learn about all the different components and how to replace worn or damaged parts.

Interpretive

It shows 30 hours of work because as I was doing the different tasks, I also had to learn about what I was doing. I had to look up instructions on how to complete tasks the right way as well as plan what I had to do. The task itself would also at times be hard, due to losing of components, not being able to locate a certain part, or just figuring out how to attack the problem. The work was time consuming and sometimes caused me to work in my room for a few hours at a time, but it would be fun.

Applied

It helped with my original EQ of what is most important for success as a biomedical engineer because I was able to use skills usually used by engineers of different fields. My new EQ, "What is most important when creating prosthetics using biomedical engineering?" was helped because I got to work with different mechanical systems that use motors and pulleys with my R/C car which can be used in robotic prosthetics.

Helping 2013

Kendall Delgado: April 26, 2012 - 5:20 pm

1) She wanted to do either autistic child development or event planning. She wanted to do child development because she knows someone with autism and already has some connections in that area. Event planning, was another option, however, she felt that it may be difficult to get service learning and I explained that she should pick whichever one is more fun for her and she is more passionate about because of possibly getting tired of senior project. I also told her about Norma who is also doing event planning and maybe talking with her for more info.

2) Since she knows someone with autism, she thought she could do service learning with that person's teacher. For event planning, she was gonna ask her friend's aunt who works as an event planner. I told her that those would both be great places to start and again talked about Norma.

3) She hopes to learn more about child development and event planning. She wants to see the senior presentations on those topics in order to learn more and decide on a final topic.

4) She didn't have any other questions and I just went over how she should think when she decides on a topic because I felt that it's better to get a fun topic vs a rigorous academic topic.

Christopher Hernandez: April 26, 2012 - 1:00 pm

1) His ideas were either video game journalism or WW2 reenactments. I could tell he was passionate about both and felt.either topic was fine. Just service learning may be hard especially for video game journalism because it is like the entertainment industry and he may not have a lot of options. But we also talked about independent component options.

2) For video game journalism, he wasn't too sure. He was gonna write reviews on games, but it seemed more like an independent component. For reenactments, he knows a group that does things like that and was thinking of talking to somone in charge of the group and perhaps joining them.

3) For senior pesentations, he was hoping to go into gaming or history ones and also kind of get more ideas. He wants to see presentations be interesting and factual and I told him aboit some of the different topics we have this year according to his interests.

4) He didn't have any other questions and I talked to him a little more about his topics.

Answer 3

EQ: What is the best way to create a prosthetic limb using  biomedical engineering?

Answer 3: Determine what you want the the limb to do and make a specific function a goal.

Evidence: If someone gets a prosthetic arm, making the arm to have the ability to apply specific amounts of pressure can make an arm feel more realistic which is sometimes what the patient wants.

Sources: InMotion: A brief history of prosthetics
                National Geographic Magazine: Bionics
                Wikipedia: Bionics

Answer 2

Content:

• EQ = What is most important for success as a biomedical engineer? (May change)
• Answer 2 
•  An efficient Biomedical Engineer should know how to work at the component level so that when doing repairs, the biomed will not have to rely heavily on another person to do repairs. This also applies to higher levels of biomed such as R&D due to the heavy amounts of electrical and mechanical engineering they are exposed to as well.
• Evidence
• Many new biomeds do not have this skill and get used to sending the defective equipment to someone else in order to get it repaired.
• When working in R&D, different kinds of medical equipment use different kinds of electronics. Due to the fact that you will be creating, designing, and researching these technologies, you must have an understanding of all the functions of the equipment to the component level. 
• Many trainees don't see components or work with them, thus making those who have the experience seem more qualified and able to do their job.
• Source 
• Winston Gotte