APSC 100 Module 1 Teaming Activity: Reflection
Creating an anemometer as a team was a helpful learning experience. During the whole process I tried to keep the steps to solving complex problems in mind. At the first meeting with my group, only three of the four of us were there. We had not yet gotten in contact with our fourth partner, as he attended the wrong lecture and was not responding to our messages to him. It did not cause too much of an issue at that moment by not having him at this initial meeting. I think those of us who were there did a good job of listening to each other’s ideas and giving some constructive criticism on each of them. We were all quite respectful of each other’s ideas and gave each of them a chance. We had some …show more content…
Instead of waiting until the next meeting, which would probably be when we tested the anemometer, I began working on another prototype design. I sent a photo of it to my other teammates so that they would know that we had another design to think about. Had we had more time I would have discussed this design with my teammates and had them help me create the prototype. Our third and final meeting was in the testing room. It was here where we tested out our different designs, landing on the one that combined the two initial designs. Once we had decided to use the design, we made the prototype more secure. Our first attempt at testing our anemometer had rather disappointing results. For the next while we each took turns trying to figure out how to make it produce a larger voltage. Two of our team members had to leave for class so the last two of us continued working and altering our design. We still had not gotten to a voltage that we were happy with but we were running out of time so we took a video of what we had. My partner then suggested that we try to turn our anemometer vertical. This was a change that made the biggest difference to the effectiveness of our design. I personally
Creating an anemometer as a team was a helpful learning experience. During the whole process I tried to keep the steps to solving complex problems in mind. At the first meeting with my group, only three of the four of us were there. We had not yet gotten in contact with our fourth partner, as he attended the wrong lecture and was not responding to our messages to him. It did not cause too much of an issue at that moment by not having him at this initial meeting. I think those of us who were there did a good job of listening to each other’s ideas and giving some constructive criticism on each of them. We were all quite respectful of each other’s ideas and gave each of them a chance. We had some …show more content…
Instead of waiting until the next meeting, which would probably be when we tested the anemometer, I began working on another prototype design. I sent a photo of it to my other teammates so that they would know that we had another design to think about. Had we had more time I would have discussed this design with my teammates and had them help me create the prototype. Our third and final meeting was in the testing room. It was here where we tested out our different designs, landing on the one that combined the two initial designs. Once we had decided to use the design, we made the prototype more secure. Our first attempt at testing our anemometer had rather disappointing results. For the next while we each took turns trying to figure out how to make it produce a larger voltage. Two of our team members had to leave for class so the last two of us continued working and altering our design. We still had not gotten to a voltage that we were happy with but we were running out of time so we took a video of what we had. My partner then suggested that we try to turn our anemometer vertical. This was a change that made the biggest difference to the effectiveness of our design. I personally