So, I said in my last post that I would talk a bit more about this past semester. Overall the semester was hectic, even though I took less of a course workload than ever before. This past semester I tried to, as usual, bite off more than I could chew. It was a lot less work than my second semester at Olin, but unforeseeable events this semester took up a lot of time and energy and resulted in this 12 credit semester.
In any case, one of the best courses I have taken so far at Olin was this semester. (It still does not top both Paul Revere: Tough as Nails or my MetaOlin course though) Principles of Engineering!!
The course website gives an overview for the course, which I have included below.
Through a significant project experience, students will integrate analysis, qualitative design, quantitative optimization, experiments, and simulations to improve their abilities to engineer real systems. The course will focus on electronic systems through the design of a low-speed universal serial bus (USB) peripheral.
My project was an autonomous four rotor lifting body platform thing we named the "Tetracopter" just because. :) A more formal description would mention how during this project we (there were four of us) designed a custom-built fully autonomous four rotor lift body. The final deliverable for the course is a website (Tetracopter.com)!Anyways, I had a whole lot of fun working on this project! (If nothing else, check out the video on the electrical page which shows one of the times the tetracopter tore itself apart during testing!)
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