Personal Learning Experiences

• Most significant educational experiences? • The early years– academic interest– Success

• School– Elementary– Middle– High– College

Exploration!

Different Colleges Opportunities

Dreams Expectations

Criterion

• Funding• Populations figures– Number “betters”– Number of leaders– Number of bodies

• IW relation

Aspirations

• Life goals• IW perfect project– Timeline• 400hr/summer & 250hr/semester

– Financials• Full funding or access to funding, i.e. corporate

sponsorship

The project

• Perfect the polymer/composite manufacturing process

• The applicant– Composite fuselage design– Poly/Comp machining– Poly/Comp Coursework

The Project

Challenge• Funding for such

research/design would require fabrication of several composite new composite manufacturing systems

Learning Objectives• Understand quality

assurance practices• Understand composite

material manufacturing processes

• Develop new, more effective practices

Features• Ted talks• Instructables• Recorded Lectures– V.S. live streaming

• Text Books– Pdf

http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_hanczyc_the_line_between_life_and_not_life.html

Primary objectives

• Enable• Develop• Certify/Verify• Create– Else not meaningful

Critical semantics

• Day to day• Week to Week• Module length to module length• Semester to semester• Physical support & Cost

Events

• Hands on– Shared space

• Professional contact– Corporate space

• Educational Contact– Research space

Interconnectivity Concerns

• Clubs• Labs• Orgs• Corps• Group & Ghosting