Academics

This page contains some choice documents from classes that showcase academic accomplishment.

Experimental Design – ME 406

For this report we were tasked with coming up with our own experiment and conducting it. Our team chose a seemingly simple test setup which included felt-tipped kitchen tongs to impart a torque on a shaft to measure a wind turbines performance. This report was preceded by a ‘Grant Proposal’ and Progress report.

For this assignment we were tasked with designing and conducting an experiment to determine the effect of blade pitch on a wind turbine’s power curve.

This assignment we were tasked with determining the energy and cost savings of using a heat exchanger to reclaim heat lost when draining a hot tub.

History 305: Cultures in Context

This paper is the final paper in History 305. Most of the semester was spent conducting researching and analyzing sources. It was an open-ended research paper where we had to choose a contemporary topic with historical roots reaching back at least to 1990 which also had a global reach.

Materials Science – ENGR 201

This class is a broad overview of materials science fundamentals. The project is to take a specific topic or material and do a more in-depth/complete study and report your findings. Learn of others research. The topic chosen for this paper is the physical properties of 3D-printing polymers.

Technical Writing and Research – ENGL 235

The purpose of this assignment is to know how to write a clear, concise, and coherent business letter in a formal tone with professional style. This assignment will also assist in learning how to write a direct letter in a brief manner. For the claim letter, you will explain a problem in a professional tone and describe the remedy being sought. Your position in this letter is that you are a consumer of a product that you bought and are dissatisfied with.

The purpose of this assignment is to know how to write a clear, concise, and coherent business letter in a formal tone with professional style. This assignment will also assist in learning how to write a direct letter in a brief manner. Your position in this letter is that you are the company of the product. For the adjustment letter, you will select one peer and respond to her/his/their claim letter. Acting as a representative of the company, you will  respond to the customer and adjust the problem with the product.

The purpose of the technical description project is to enhance how to clearly describe the features, functions, and stages of something in major and minor detail using plain style writing for understandability.
Additionally, the purpose of the technical specification project is to enhance how to reference clearly and quickly an explicit set of requirements in order to provide the necessary details about a product’s specific requirements using plain style writing for understandability.
By highlighting necessary major and minor details and explicit standards for a product, you will be able to enhance your writing ability to determine the rhetorical situation and then take any technical situation or subject and plan, research, and partition the subject with a clear purpose. This assignment will also help you to write for a specific audience in order to enhance your formal word choice, technical descriptive voice, and be sensitive to jargon.

The purpose of this assignment is to learn how to plan, research, and write technical instructions in order to meet the needs of a diverse reader audience and aid the reader in completing a task. Create instructions related to the oven range you have selected. You should be providing instructions for a specific oven range -not general. 

The purpose of this assignment is to inform an audience about your topic for the Technical Report assignment. Additionally, the purpose of this assignment is to understand the basic features of a proposal and gain practical experience in constructing one for a specific audience. For this assignment, you will write a planning proposal. This assignment directly relates to the final for this course, which is the Technical Report. This proposal is outlining what you will be researching and writing about for your final report.

The purpose of this assignment is to understand the basic features of an analytical report and gain practical experience in constructing a large research report. For your final project, create a formal report on an approved technical communication topic. The purpose of the report is to narrow the focus of a general topic and analyze the topic. In order to analyze the topic, you need to identify a problem with the selected topic and inform and persuade the reader towards a position. The topic chosen for this paper is cooperative vs. competitive cooperation in the workplace.

Anthropology: Cultures in Context – ANTH 116D

The purpose of this assignment is to create a partial academic paper based on a certain topic, and perform adequate research and conduct a survey related to the topic chosen.

English 101

An essay was written to address the following topics:
1.Food is good, moderation is better, and plants are best.
2.Supermarkets use demeaning tactics to manipulate you into buying more food than you really need, but you can protect yourself from them.
3.Children today are being born without wisdom teeth. Humans are evolving to eat different foods as they become available and better