Group dynamics

As I move through this semester I am learning more and more that teamwork is needed in almost every area of the student affairs profession. If you would have asked me a year ago to draft a conference proposal I would have said it only took one or two people to complete the task needed to submit a good proposal. The last month has changed this previous mindset though, as I have found it takes many dedicated individuals to help draft a good proposal. I decided to work with Rachael Kowbel who is…

projects and we all appreciate each other's efforts. Group project is a work that needs to be done together. It is impossible to complete without any one. Even if everyone has their own assignment to do, we still finish our group project perfectly. We discussed our user research in lab and I discussed with them through message after class. I usually discuss details of the assignment with them in order to write a best one. The first group project we finished is Project Problem…

In the group presentation of Into the Wild I worked with my classmates Alberto, Gerardo, David, Leslie and Maria. We had a pleasing experience working on this project together throughout the assignment. Everyone choose a topic to elaborate correspondly to our claim which basically claimed our support of McCandless fabricating his own decision to go into the wild without having anything or anyone to implicate his decision. I was pleased to know that the group quickly came to an agreement with our…

Working in groups can be difficult. This semester, in one of my classes we have a group project that we have to work on throughout the semester. In my group there are seven people. We all are responsible for turning in a final paper, presentation, and evaluating one another. As college students, it is difficult to get everyone to work on the project at once. My group members and I introduced each other when we were placed in the group. Afterwards, we have not meet once in person. We communicate…

Bzzzzzzzzzz!!! As I look up towards a building and see a person on top of a high building. The sound came out sounding like a high voltage rate going through wire, just like when you pass an electricity pole and you hear that “Bzzzzz” sound. I thought it was amazing learning how to weld and learning how to connect metal by using equipment and objects. In order to become a welder you have to go to school for two years. The salary is really good after you become a welder. When I first…

Introduction It has been a puzzling question in fluid mechanics for quite some time as to why golf balls are designed with dimples. In the 1800’s it was discovered that a ball with scuffs in it flew through the air more consistently than a smooth golf ball.6 Manufacturers started incorporating patterns to golf balls to try and find which gave a more stable and reliable flight pattern. In the 1900’s it was determined that the strategic placement of indentations maximizes lift while minimizing…

[6] In this experiment, key drag forces are the skin drag and pressure drag. The skin drag and pressure drag can be accumulated to get the total drag. The drag coefficient is the ratio of the drag force formed in comparison to the product of the dynamic pressure and area. It is a dimensionless quantity. The factors that affect the drag coefficient is the shape of the body, the roughness of the surface, the viscosity of the fluid and compressibility of the object. The viscosity of the fluid…

Blood Flow as a Casson Fluid 1 THE PROBELM This problem was chosen from Problems for Biomedical Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena section 8, because of my interest in biomedical engineering. How the body works on the most fundamental chemical and physical levels is something that has always fascinated me. This problem, and others in the section on blood flow, offered me a chance to delve deeper into how the body works as well as transport phenomena. The problem gave us a solved velocity…

In sub-critical flow transition, the emphasis is essentially to provide smooth and gradual changes in the boundary to prevent flow separation and consequent energy losses. Even if slight change the curvature in transition, the boundary zone of the retarded liquid expands rapidly. Its impact on velocity distributions which become highly uneven with corresponding large values of energy coefficient (α) & momentum coefficient () and fluid flow may fail completely to flow the channel walls. Several…

Two computation cases were introduced, one with a polyurethane graft and another with a silicon rubber graft. The computations were done under a pulsatile flow. Both cases were computed under maximum peak pressure as mentioned in the method section. The flow volume rate is expressed by integrating on surface as followed: Q=∬_A^ ▒v.dA (5) By integrating flow volume rate in time…