#engineering project

engineering capstone and design projects. don't forget to take a break. ✨

September 21st, 2021

Today consited on working on the design project and a lot of reading for aerodynamics.

May 25th, 2021

I'm tired, disappointed, sad and very unmotivated and it's all due to the project. People are either not doing anything or they do the wrong thing, while I explain everything multiple times and they don't as for clarification.

June 1st, 2021

Happy pride month to all my lgbtqia+ followers! 🏳️‍🌈

Today, again, has been very project focussed. Right after my first class today, I found out that one of the things the project supervisor had asked for several times still hadn't been done, so I decided to go ahead and do that. After lunch we had our meeting and the supervisor was very happy with the work shown, so my effort was definitely worth it!

As we were about 2,5 weeks behind scedule last week, the supervisor told us some new things this meeting (yes, the deadline is in three days), which meant that new CAD drawings had to be made. I am actually quite glad about that, because I found a substantial error made by a teammember. The only downside of that was that I had to redesign an entire part (it became the one on the bottom right, don't you think it resembles a cat?!).

May 21st, 2021

Yesterday there was a symposium organised by the study association Sypke Wynia. It was pretty nice and included some presentations and panels with people from all over the aeronautical/aerospace field. It was a great event to attend and I am hoping to be able to attend something like this in an IRL setting one day.

May 16th, 2021

This weekend I have been working on mathematics, aerodynamics and the integrated engineering project. The last one being the most annoying of all.

We've been working on this one document over the past FOUR weeks now because some did not understand what specifically was asked of them. For the past two weeks however, this has been (in my opinion) pretty clear, but I guess the others did not and also didn't think to ask me (the project leader) what exactly to do.

Now I do realize that I could have checked on them more, so I'm partly to blame, but on the other hand, for over 15 weeks now, I have been repeating that I want them to ask questions if they are not sure. Another thing bothering me is that more and more my deadlines are ignored by certain people combined with the fact that "It's easier to do stuff on my own laptop and then copy paste it when I'm done.", while I keep asking to do everything in a shared document, so that I can check the progress thoughout the week.