Date: Summer 2019
One of the most difficult projects I have ever worked on because it required professional skills of team coordination and presentation; this made me realize that hard work is not enough unless combined with teamwork and prior planning.
I was team lead, and my responsibility was to manage meeting times and to keep the team on track. I created slideshows summarizing research and objectives for two phases of the project. I could not continue in doing that towards the third phase due to disagreements, but we eventually finished the project completely.
I implemented my design skills to make models for every part we researched. I later ran them through simulations to help us in the concept selection process. I led the concept generation discussions and sketched the drawings for the prototypes. My teammates Zoe and Torrey focused on researching and writing the report; while Arnav and Prad were in the zone of concept selection and actual manufacturing of the aircraft. Before selecting the prototypes, I mapped out a lucid chart mind map to sum up all the ideas we came up, under the specified constraints and customer needs. Additional calculations had to be made for budget planning and to back up solutions.