My reflection
I felt the project in whole was a good idea of what the design process would be in the real world. I felt that we could of done better with more time and money but i understand that COVID did have an impact on the project. If I were to change something I would make the beginning projects shorter to allow more time for capstone. I would also have some fundraising each fall semester to fund the capstones of the spring and then assign budgets to each group based on their idea.
Teammate 1 reflection (James
I had a lot of fun with the capstone project. With the capstone it presented us the chance not only to chose what problem we want to work on, but I also shows us a similar situation to how it would work in the real world. It was also interesting to see the design process get worked out throughout a much longer span of time then we had previously done before. Although I do wish that I had started looking for problems for our capstone sooner. One thing for the future might be at the beginning of the course get the class to start looking up some problems or something along those lines to get the class to really start to think about what they're going to work on for their capstone.
Teammate 2 reflection (Eman
Overall, this project has been a great experience for me and I learned a lot during these past few months. This project helped me learn and essentially implement things that I had learned in the past few years into this project. This also helped me to push my mind to its limit and really think outside the box, as I and my teammates had to do many times. The beginning of the project was probably the toughest. Me and my teammates went for days just struggling to find a problem to solve. Then, even more time to figure out how to solve that problem without stealing an existing idea which was definitely tough. Once we found out what to do, the project went along pretty smoothly from that point on with Mr. Riester and Mr. Hunter providing a big help in getting us going. Without them, we wouldn't have put our idea into fruition as fast as we did. We essentially finished building our prototype (outside of a few finishing touches and improvements) before part E which really helped us to relax and not have to stress about time. All in all, this was a very good course to prepare students for future paths in engineering but a way to improve it may be to do a lesser version of capstone that in a lot shorter in the years before senior year. Other than that, I'm glad I enrolled in this engineering program.