ASET Technology Alberta Summer 2016 - 18
Red Deer College
PROJECT NAME
Advanced Heating Solutions
-Flameless Heater
PROJECT SUMMARY
Our group's project was given to us in the fall of 2015 when a
client approached the college with his hydraulically-controlled
flameless heat generator. He asked that we test multiple areas of the unit to determine its overall efficiency, and that we
identify aspects of the unit that could be improved to make it
more efficient and easier to maintain and manufacture.
Bryce's Project Perspective
One of the main portions of the Mechanical Engineering Technology
(MET) Program is the capstone project, which all graduates must complete. I was assigned to a team of four-two other MET students and one
in Electrical-tasked with improving a flameless heater.
We called upon skills we had built up over the course of the program,
while developing others we will need to be successful in the work force.
What really jumped out at me is that we needed to be effective project
managers, learning to manage our time, how to do divide the workload
evenly among group members, and how to interact in a professional manner with the client and with fellow group members. All members of the
group got the opportunity to take a lead role at different time, which helped
all of us develop leadership qualities. Our group also faced some setbacks
that we needed to deal with including issues such as client communication and being unable to deal with time constraints. All these challenges
needed to be accounted for and we learned a lot just by dealing with them.
I feel that overall, the capstone project was one of the most valuable
parts of the MET Program and it will help all of us as we move forward
with our careers.
Jordan's Project Perspective
The largest project completed in the program was the two-semester long
capstone that I completed with two fellow Mechanical Engineering Technology students and one enrolled in Electrical Engineering Technology.
Having people from both programs helped in that we were able to bring to
bear multiple perspectives to find solutions to our problems. The project
was beneficial in terms of learning to work and mesh as a group to meet a
challenge based on an existing industry procedure.
The group learned to work well as a team and whenever any group
member struggled in a certain area the rest of us would help him through
it. One particular thing I learned is that a student-client relationship is quite
important for a successful project. Both sides must communicate often
and feel comfortable doing so. If the communication is delayed or not
complete the project can get off track in a hurry; that's something that
must be corrected as soon as possible. The difficulty in our project was
that the flameless heating unit was still being revised and altered by the
client so our schedule had to be adjusted to match the client's. We were
able to adapt well and our project was completed on time and to the best
of our ability.
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Ryley's Project Perspective
For the duration of our capstone project, all members of the group cycled
through roles allowing each person a chance to gain experience in different positions. Throughout the project I was responsible for sharing the
role of initiating communications among the client, our group, and our
capstone instructor. I was also involved with efficiency-testing design and
execution, and manufacturability. I was the user-serviceability co-leader
and also researched alternative components for the unit.
A major obstacle our group had to overcome was communication
with the client as well as the availability of the unit. We were able to work
around this by allowing additional time in our project schedule to ensure
that in the event of a delay there was ample time to get the necessary
work done. Another difficulty we had was organizing all the members
of the group to meet and work on the project while balancing the heavy
workload. This we managed easily by having each member be willing to
make the necessary arrangements to meet, and by using resources such
as Google Drive, which allowed us to work on the project from anywhere.
The capstone allowed my fellow group members and me to gain valuable
experience in project management and research, which will be directly applicable to industry projects in our future careers.
Elliott's Project Perspective
Being the only Electrical Engineering Technology student in a group of
four (the other three being in the Mechanical Engineering Technology
Program), and having been assigned a mechanically-based project, I had
more of a project manager's role. That meant I ensured that we stayed
on task and met milestones. We each also had a hand in communicating
with the client to exchange information and ask questions. A big thing I
learned on this project was the importance of communications amongst
team members and with a client. Balancing the workload was also key
to completing this project successfully. Handy tools that helped manage
both challenges were Google Drive, and supporting online software such
as Google Docs and Google Slides. They permitted all the members of
the group to access the same documents and work on them together in
real time, allowing many hands to make light work of various documents
that had to be written. The Drive also gave our group a place to store the
documents and other files so we, our client, and our instructor could all
access them.
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