Computer Software Ethics Presentation

CSE 2501 Research Presentation

For my computer software ethics course, I was tasked with researching a controversial software topic and present the facts of both sides of the argument.  I chose to make my presentation on Google Glass and the idea of whether or not we have privacy, even when we’re in public, from being filmed by a total stranger.  It was the first time that I really started a research project completely from scratch.  I had to check my facts and make sure that my sources were trustworthy in order to put them into my presentation.  I learned to pool a lot of information and to check my facts on the internet.  This project made me a better researcher in general.

Advanced Energy Vehicle Project

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The Advanced Energy Vehicle project was a project that spanned an entire semester of one of my engineering courses.  We came up with many different designs for our vehicle and tested each one to see which ran the most efficiently.  The vehicle was programmed to go through a rail obstacle where it went up to a gate, stopped until the gate opened, passed through the gate, picked up a caboose magnetically, and the did the beginning of the course in reverse to get back to the start of the course.  My team created the most efficient vehicle of any group in the class.  I learned to constantly test and document my efforts to make something.  At the end of the semester, we gave a presentation in summary of everything we did.  I was able to get my first real engineering experience with this class project.

Pecha Kucha Tony Kushner Presentation

Tony Kushner

I gave a presentation in a theater writing course I took.  The assignment was to discuss multiple plays by the same playwright, Tony Kushner in my case, and discuss similarities and what in the playwright’s life inspired their stories.  There was one catch: the presentation had to be pecha kucha.  This meant that there was no text allowed on the screen and each slide would automatically change according to a time limit.  This forced me to really script out my thoughts so I covered everything I wanted to cover in a time limit without any notes.  I had to learn my lines like an actor.  This experience helped me to grow as a presenter.  I learned how to memorize a presentation and use that to engage with my audience more instead of having my face in my notes and looking down the whole time.

Circuits

At GE, I was tasked with updating the hardware and software of circuit card debugging equipment.  Since, I have learned a lot about electronics, new programming languages, and how to coordinate a large effort like this with many different departments on the manufacturing floor to meet a deadline.  In addition, I gained a lot exposure with many GE Aviation products.

International Affairs Scholars Trip to India

Travelling to India was an amazing learning experience, one that I will remember for the rest of my life.  I learned a lot about other cultures, people, and languages.  It was great to see a whole other way people live everyday.  It opened my eyes to a lot of new ideas about the world, for example, like how Indians do not really care about privacy and how Americans expect a little privacy at all times.  I learned to communicate through gestures and a little Hindi that I was taught.  This experience may even one day help my career as an engineer.  A lot of information technology jobs are getting outsourced and this experience could make me invaluable to a large company like GE.