Senior Project Reflection

Content:

1) I was most proud of my newly found experience in the wiring of a residential building. I am happy that I will be able to work around the house from now on and have projects I can work on to make things more convenient.

2)

• a) P-
• b) P-

3) What worked?

I had a great time with my mentor, he led me towards my answers and some good sources for research. There was also the fact that he helped me get a new 3rd interviewee even after the original interviewee was evasive. Another thing that worked was the ability to find research, it wasn't difficult to find research for this topic at almost any point, everything led to something. Finally I actually had fun learning during my second independent comp. which led me to my hook activity in my one hour.

4) If I had a time machine I would go back and use my second independent component as my first and I would attempt to get a second mentor because even though I met the hours with my current mentor I feel that more hours would have been a positive reflection in my presentation. I would also try to be more available to my mentors hours because he was busy a lot of the time during the week so weekends were the main time we had.

5) During mentorship I was able to work with circuits and wire my own switches as well as create a whole new circuit so now I will be able to create my own circuits in my future home which is what I was aiming to get out of this project. Coincidentally however towards the end of the mentorship, I actually found that becoming an engineer seems like a promising career so I am keeping my eyes on that in college.

Blog 21: Mentorship

Literal:
Click here for my blog.
Click here for the mentorship log.
Contact Name: Alfredo Nunez Sr.
Location: His house

Interpretive:
Honestly I have gained so much from this experience, I really enjoyed the time I got to spent learning from my mentor. However the thing I value most is the experience, I had a great time learning from my mentor and he also made it really simple to understand things. He was always patient and had a solution for each problem that came up. There was even days where some of his friends who were also electricians came over and that was to my benefit because at that point I had 2 people to refer to and ask questions. It was great because when one of them answered the other would fill in any other important parts. The knowledge that I gained throughout will be very useful later on when I go to college and when I become a homeowner. The main purpose for me was to get my feet wet and see if I'd enjoyed it, which I did, so I might major in engineering or just focus on becoming an electrician. However I really wanted to have the skill set to do my own tasks in my future home. With this experience I can now easily do it without the need to refer to basic how to websites. I'm glad that I got this opportunity and had a great mentor.

Applied:
With the experience that I had throughout the mentorship I was able to answer my EQ because I did not only get my mentor's opinion on my question but along with my research I was able to solidify each answer. My best answer however was THE first thing that I was taught. After doing all the circuits and having to play around with them to correctly and safely wire them, I was able to decide and be certain that my answers would include schematics and safety. Aside from that I had remembered of a time when I heard about permits and once I asked about it I believed it was a great answer to my EQ as well. Since my EQ is "How can an electrician best wire a house?" and houses are just circuits inside with different capacities and safety precautions it was close to the smaller scale circuits I worked with. This allowed me to answer my EQ with the mentorship experience that was backed up by my research.