Entering my few final weeks at ASU, it has dawned on me that my project is getting closer and closer to ending. It has also dawned on me how much I've learned in the past 5 or so weeks during this internship. I'm now comfortable in a biomedical engineering lab setting; and although it isn't something that I specifically learned under the guidance of my on-site mentor, I still feel that it is a great accomplishment to achieve. It has pushed me to re-evaluate what I want in a university. And that push led me to research my top list of schools under the criteria of research funding and innovation.
In addition to this re-evaluation , I've learned that the things I feared most in engineering is what intrigued me pick it as my major, and my project. It is all about physics and mechanical work. Screen printing, printed circuit board fabrication, materials design, and circuit board design all fit under what I have learned at my internship. My project is also about learning how one does research. And I've concluded a lot of it has to do with waiting and practicing patience. In my last blog, I said I was waiting to learn printed circuit board fabrication because we needed new materials. Unfortunately, those materials didn't come in this week. So that means I haven't fully learned what the fabrication process entails. But I'm hopeful that this week will be the week to start learning. This doesn't mean I did nothing during this week though. I actually split most of my time working on my powerpoint draft and reading about the fabrication process.
Below is a site that I came across that I really liked. On the side of the website, it divides the process into parts. If you click it, it will tell you the different part in that process. Some of those parts have different articles attached to them that discuss that specific sub-part of the fabrication step. Some part of this website are still being put up, but overall I thought it was a good start to the learning process.
http://www.pcbfab.com/
I'm know this week sounded really boring, and I'm sorry for that. But hopefully the next blog will be more exciting. Until next time!
- Tina Smith
This is kind of a general question, but how is creating the presentation going?
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