Independent Component 2 Plan Approva

CONTENT:

 (1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component

For my independent component, I am deciding whether to do extra hours at San Dimas Community Hospital or do something very focused and allows me to practice a skill. I was thinking of taking circuit boards from medical equipment and identifying all the components and dissecting the boards. This will give me an experience with electronics and can be very useful in engineering fields.

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

The circuit boards will take a long time to dissect and organize due to the many components on a single board. Extracting the board from medical equipment also takes some time. I hope to be able to dissect, and then reassemble parts of a board by studying schematics for available equipment.

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?   

As of now, I felt that having experience with technology at the component level is a very valuable skill. My service learning has told me that many biomeds don't know the basics about circuit boards which results in longer time to repair a certain piece of equipment because they need to send it to another individual who then fixes the tech. This is very time consuming and inefficient and can be avoided with basic knowledge of schematics and components.