Attributes and abilities demonstrated and learned throughout the course of the project.

Soft Skills

• Leadership
  • Facilitating meetings
  • Managing and distributing work amongst peers
  • Helping group members with tasks when required
  • Project management
• Communication
  • Discussing ideas with group members
  • Documentation for assignments
  • Asking questions to TAs
• Collaboration
  • Group work
  • Division of responsibilities
• Organization & Responsibility
  • Time management
  • Documentation
  • Project planning
• Critical thinking & Problem-solving
  • Defining problem statements
  • Assigning criteria for material selection
  • Justification of selections

Technical Skills

• Software Usage

  • ANSYS Granta
    • Material property charts
  • Inventor

    • Modeling turbine blade

      

      Figure 1. Front View of Blade.

      

      Figure 2. Angled View of Blade From Front End.

      

      Figure 3. Back View of Blade.

      

      Figure 4. Angled View of Blade From Back End.

      

      Figure 5. Physical Properties of Blade.

    • Deflection testing

      

      Figure 6. Deflection Test of Model Blade.

      

      Figure 7. Deflection Test of Final Material Blade.

• MPI Derivations & Calculations

  • Deriving constraints and properties for MPI optimization

    

    Figure 8. Sample MPI Derivation Maximizing Material Strength.

  • Deflection calculations

    

    Figure 9. Model Blade Deflection Calculation.

    

    Figure 10. Final Blade Deflection Calculation for A Given Thickness.

• Writing & Documentation

  • Research
  • Citations & references
  • Selection justifications
  • Project summaries & reports

• Engineering design

  • Defining problem statements

  • Creating objective trees

    

    Figure 11. Sample Objective Tree From Pre-assignment Scenario

  • Ranking objectives for selection criteria