NINTH WEEK

Nineth week

This week we were presented with a new challenge. Now, we have to work with students from another center, exactly students of Deusto, from the Salesian Center of Deusto. In this new challenge we have had a problem with the conventional lathe. To be more precise, we have to design or redesign a tool holder and a turret. when we want to cylinder we have to put on chocks or worse, use tools to fit them. For all this, we are taking a planing, communicating with them daily and making two weekly video calls, to follow up equally.

To do a good job, apart from our teacher helping us with the whole challenge, we have a new teacher, who is doing a master. She has studied mechanical engineering and knows the world of work. This has helped us to make some templates to be able to do the work. It has also helped us to follow the deadlines for not arriving in a hurry to the last week of the challenge, which is in January.

At the beginning professors provided us the needed material to proceed to prepare the current challenge solution so students could notice what they were pointing at. Within those steps are included a lots of stages which they named milestones and deadlines.  

The first stage was to recognize the theme or trouble that was needed to solve, once this point was clearly defined then we proceed with the next step which was to collect information about a possible previous solution linked to our touble by other people; my team and I found enough info to begin to create new possible solutions for our challenge.

After doing the first steps we carried out with the next steps. We met up with our new colleagues from Salesianos and clarified ourselves what we need  to solve and how we would do it.  Once we ended this up , each one started to draw proposal to solve the current problem. Before getting to thursday, we have already had all proposals of us. Then one of us wrote the technical report  down for the first milestone which was required to be presented on Thursday 5th.

A new employee indicated us how we must write our  first report down, I mean in a proper way so the judges can get a good presentation in the first milestone. This new employee gave us general highlights or point that must be included inside the report such as titles, logos, index, the current trouble, references, blueprints, descriptions.

Next we show a sample about how we had to provide our technical report to our professors:

Once we ended this up, we must carry on with the selection  of  a best proposal and modify it in order to get a reasonable idea of how to give  a solution to the current trouble. Students from both institutes  organizing all tasks for the next week.

Something that I forgot to say was that new groups were created (mixed groups), a half is from Salesianos and the other half is from Maristak. The major purpose of doing this is to evaluate how we work with other people and develope new abilities related to communication.

Nowadays we are involved in enhancing an unique proposal  so that we can carry out with calculation, type of geometry (dimensions); strength of materials, among others.