Week 7 Prompt Post: Contemplating Controversy

  I must admit that this week’s prompt topic is so hard for me due to the specificity of my major which is mechanical engineering. As we know, mechanical engineer is rigorous work so that this major requires every mechanical engineer has rigorous thinking power because everything that mechanical engineers design or build relate to society’s secure and human’s life, so even though I spend hours on internet and MSU libraries, I can not find single controversy for my field which makes me very sad. I keep searching on bloggers, and finally I find one mechanical engineer blogsport which has completing controversy, I bet that this author must be one of Prof. Sarah Gibbons’ former friends. She or he gives a controversy about nuclear weapon and the topic gives me hope to finish this week’s prompt post, thank god.
  The content below gives both side of nuclear weapon, though it relates to physical and nuclear science, but they are part of mechanical engineering, so I think it is suitable for this week’s prompt post and I DO NOT have my opinion with the controversy. And the controversy is that should a country spend money on developing nuclear weapons during peacetime?
  From the survey of nuclearfiles.org, most voters say that U.S government spend too much on nuclear weapons and strong majority republicans are opposed to spend taxes on developing nuclear weapons. Moreover, Americans are ready to eliminate all nuclear weapons. In America, the attitude that people towards to nuclear weapons is to cancel it at all.
   The controversy is between Chinese and Americans. China’s government concentrates on developing nuclear weapons and our people support it. In China, the priority thing is secure. And the leader of China and fellow people think that only developing nuclear weapons can bring peace, as the nuclear weapons protected new born China after world war, people in China believe in it without doubts.

 

 

CITATION

1. Chris , Bartoluzzi . "Contemplating Controversy ." Displinary literacies Porforlio. Google Blogger, 19 04 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://bartomsu.blogspot.com/.

2. "U.S. Public Opinion Poll on Nuclear Weapons." . NuclearFiles, Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/opinion-polls/nuclear-weapons/public-opinion-poll-on-nuclear-weapons.html.

3. 秋月, 冷如刀. "核武器震慑带来必然是和平，中国应该大力发展威胁美国本土核弹！." Sina. (2009): n. page. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://club.mil.news.sina.com.cn/thread-160101-1-1.html.

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 6 Free Post: Famous Heavy Industry In China

       Last week I purchased a transformer toy for my little brother and I found there is “Made In China” on the box of the product. If we go to Walmart or other stores, we can easily find that lots of clothes and furniture are made in China. So you may think that China is good at light industry, and then you just get half right. The fact is China’s factories not only good at making such light industry as toys and clothes, but also heavy industry in China is powerful. For this week’s free post, I introduce a heavy industry mechanical factory in China.

       The heavy industry mechanical factory in the above video is TieJian heavy industry factory; it is the only factory which has the shield tunneling and mining equipment development at the same time all over the world, which makes me very proud of. The main product of the factory is high-end engineering machinery equipment for tunneling and it is the leader in manufacturing technology and equipment level, it proves that China made is best of the world.

       As I mention above that TieJian is the factory which focus on tunneling, in another word is that it is focusing underground projects. And what I link with this is that as the population is enlarging, people may not satisfy with underground space, human will ask more for space. So when I graduate, I can join or build a company which produce engineering equipment for undersea exploring or for sky bridge or universe maybe? Mechanical engineering has no limits, so right now, I plan to focus the latest news of these big factories, both world and China, and see if I can grab any useful information in order to catch new direction of development, so that when I graduate, I can be one step ahead and achieve my success.

 

 

CITATION

Kortec, . 中國鐵建重工集團有限公司簡介 . 2013. Photograph. YoutubeWeb. 18 Feb 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yBHntExXuk>.

 

 

Week 6 Prompt Post: Evaluating Sources: Mechanical Engineer Should Be Renewable Engineer

        I find an article that makes argument on mechanical engineers should be renewable engineers. The author’s name is Eric Limpaecher form Princeton University and he concentrates on electric, gas and other renewable resources as an engineer, and I think that his thoughts are advanced.

        In the article, he says that the society needs more college students to be engineers and then to be renewable engineers as him. When he graduated from school, he started to focus electrical and electron because he thought and renewable engineering without any wastes and pollutions should be ultimate engineering for society. He also lists some doable renewable engineering in the article, such as power electrics, heat and magnetic. He hopes that all companies and organizations should give more money on renewable engineering and he also wants that all mechanical engineers should not only focus on machines or airplanes, but also they need more trains on renewable engineers.    
        Although my classes level of mechanical engineers are low, but according to what I have learned so far, I would like to say I totally agree with the author’s argument. Just like I wrote a code of dealing water pollution for EGR 102 assignment, people started to realize that only renewable engineering should be developed, electrons, wind and heat, such as those pure energy should be used in all engineering field. However, what I concern about is that if we want to develop renewable engineers, there will be a lot of research fees, some organizations or companies may not want to afford them, they only focus on short benefits, and engineering students like me won’t concentrate on renewable engineers because if we want to find a job, the renewable stuffs will be useless for us. It is cruel but it is reality. Not only mechanical engineers should be renewable engineers, all fields should also find its renewable ways, that’s the way the society develops. Renewable engineers are imperative.

 

CITATION

Eric, Limpaecher. " mechanical engineers should be renewable engineers." Entrepreneurial Energy . (2011): n. page. Web. 13 Mar. 2014. <http://entrepreneurialenergy.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/renewable-engineers/>.

 

Week 5 Prompt Post: Engineering Code Of Ethics

Here is professional engineering code of ethics form eHow: “The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) explains that the work of engineers directly affects the public in ways that impact health, safety and wellness. It is for this reason that engineers must hold themselves to a strict code of ethics that acknowledges this responsibility and encourages attention to detail and quality work.”

1. Wellness
It is the engineers' responsibility to inform their employers, clients and other authorities if any decisions they have made to secure the safety of people and property have been overridden, so that their project's integrity is not compromised. It is imperative that safety and well-being be a priority for an engineer at all times.
2. Trustworthiness
Engineers are responsible for keeping their clients' and employers' private information in confidence unless given permission by the client or by law to reveal it.
3. Competency
Engineering trades are highly specialized and require formal education in specific fields of interest, including structural engineering, chemical engineering and electrical engineering. The NSPE demands that engineers provide services only in the area of the field in which they are an expert.
4. Professionalism
Engineers are entrusted with ensuring the public's safety, health and wellness by presenting plans and specifications that adhere to standard engineering rules and regulations. Extending past occupational duties, the NSPE encourages engineers to promote public well-being by assisting in youth mentoring and community service.
5. Accountability
While industry standards in engineering ethics have been set by the NSPE, only engineers who choose to become members of the society are held accountable for upholding these standards. Members of the public can report a society engineer in the event that they suspect an engineer of not following the Code of Ethics.

These codes of ethics list very clearly and I believe in it with no doubts. Mechanical engineers work with machine and responsible for their products, they are all related to lives and property, as mechanical engineer, we must perform our best in order to take responsibility to people and society.

 

Three ways in which I am doing in college related to ethics

1.     In EGR 100, I had already learned that we should keep our clients and other members’ private information, and never plagiaries other’s work or reports. This is relates to ethics of trustworthiness.

2.     Also in EGR 100, when we built our lego robot project, we needed to use lots of tools to accomplish our project, I always told my members to be careful during work, and I always volunteered to check safety of tools and programs. This is relates to ethics of wellness.

3.     In MSU, I am always concentrate on stuffs on mechanical engineers, I got all 4.0 on the two elementary EGR classes and I continue to study with all my energy, I try to make ethical decisions. This is relates to ethics of competency.

 

CITATION

 Danielle , Langberg. "Professional Engineer Code of Ethics." eHOW. N.p.. Web. 16 Feb 2014. <http://www.ehow.com/about_6132586_professional-engineer-code-ethics.html>.

 

 

Week 5 Free Post: Introduction of Elements of Mechanical Engineering

For this week’s free post, I would like to share a video about elements of mechanical engineering. Mechanical engineer is not only relates to machines, but only it contains heat and material science. Somehow, many students around me always complain about why we need to take physics and chemistry if we are major in mechanical engineer, what a waste of time and energy. I think after watching this video, people who have that thoughts will change their mind. This video is like a PowerPoint slide show during the first part, it gives some common senses like what is mechanical engineer and what can mechanical engineer do for society. The second part of the video is to a carton show. There is a analysis of a trains, it burns carbon to get kinetic energy and the white gas which is carbon dioxide and sulfate dioxide put into outside air through a pipe. It shows that mechanical engineering is also relates to heat and chemistry stuff.

 

Citation

Qpage, , dir. Introduction of Elements of Mechanical Engineering . 2013. Film. 10 Feb 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4pV3zqGfQ>.

 

 

Week 4 Prompt Post: Observing Community Eta Kappa Nu

The community that I observe in Michigan State University is called Eta Kappa Nu, although it is not a community for mechanical engineering but for electrical and computer science, it is related to using computer to build programs which is also a part of mechanical engineering job, so I think that I can post this observation as my prompt post for this week. 

Eta Kappa Nu is the International Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineers as It says on the introduction page. As I observe, it is a club which is full of elites in engineering field. Most of members are junior or senior students, and also some of them are graduate students. The goal of this club is to let these honor students get promote, it provides information and tutoring for people and also they provide helps for undergraduate programs.

As the benefits of joining in the Eta Kappa Nu club, other than getting tutoring and helps on undergraduate programs, I think that if you can be an active member in the club, the other members will not only help you on programs, but also on social services, presentation even job opportunity for the best companies. People you know in the club are all elites, they may help you a lot in the future.

I strongly encourage those who can achieve their requirements and willing to succeed to join the club, it is valuable. 

You can also view the website:http://www.egr.msu.edu/hkn/

 

 

 

 

Week 4 Free Post: Video Games In Mechanical Engineer

Is Mechanical Engineer boring and hard? I think most people will say yes if they are crazy. I d like to say yes as my response as well, however, for this week’s post, I can show you a interesting part of mechanical engineer, which is the thing that everybody likes it, video game.

As the introduction of this video says, students play video games to study mechanical engineer happens in North Illinois University. They drive cars in the program to test their design. As the video shows, there are a lot of situations, like car crash and speed decreases when another vehicle passing by. Anyway, it is a fun program and there is a guy specific introduce what they are testing in the program, go see for you self if you are interested in it.

Although we don’t have such a class for engineering students in Michigan State University, the EGR 100 has lego robot project for engineering students which I think has so much fun. The assignment is to let engineering students build lego robots and have competition on speed, in order to win the competition, students should design the appearance of their robot to make the robot lighter and easy to catch the box, also students need to build their program carefully so that no errors will happen to robots. I think the benefits of this project are to let students enjoy learning engineer and give them freedom to let them design. I think we can open more class like this so students won’t complain about boring and difficulties on engineer.

Citation

Brianno , Coller. Video Game in Mechanical Engineering Education . 2006. Photograph. Youtube, Northern Illinois. Web. 6 Feb 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYGwaI-haOM>.

Week 3 Prompt Post: Interview~

I am not very fortunate enough for completing this week’s blogger project; I do not know any mechanical engineering professors and feel shy to disturb other students for my own business. In order to finish this week’s blogger project, I have to ask help from my old friend Kim who graduated from mechanical engineer in PSU and works in China right now. I don’t know how to interview people like asking some valuable questions, besides it is spring festival in China right now, so here are some simple questions and his responses.

Q: Where do you work?

A: I work at Dalian Shipbuilding Factory.

Q: What do you do in average day?

A: Repair ships and renew ships.

Q: Is this the job you expected with your degree?

A: No, I expected to do something like designing cares or repairing cares not ships lol.

Q: How many hours do you work per day?

A: It depends, normally I work 9 hours per day.

Q: Are you satisfied with your salary?

A: Yep, I can live comfortable in Dalian with my salary.

Q: Is this job related to what you learn in school?

A: The theories are same, but you need work experience in order to do jobs like I do.

Reference

Zhao & Kim personal interview, February 3, 2014.