B-FAB

Bucknell Fabrication was a great program to participate in after my first year at Bucknell given the fact that I did not design, create, or fabricate much at all. I enjoy creating things and using my engineering background to aid my creativity and B-FAB gave me that opportunity. These are some of the key aspects I learned from participating

• "Team work makes the dream work"

• Basic fabrication skills

  • 3D Printing​

  • Laser Cutting 

  • CNC Operating

  • wood-working

  • hand tools 

• Entrepreneurial Skills & Market Analysis

• Simple Design Processes

• Working for a client as a designer and engineer

K-WIDE

The KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience was a great, beneficial, life changing, and impactful experience that really helped me solidify what I wanted to do as an engineer. We we're mentally challenged throughout every moment of the day trying to solve some of the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering. My team was specifically tasked with creating "Better Work" and what was so challenging was fixating on one problem that we could create a prototype solution for. Overall these we'e the major takeaways from K-WIDE

• "Thinking at "50,000ft"- Taking into consideration economic, socio-economic​, cultural, environmental, and overall world impact of the products engineers design.

• Converting from a "fixed mindset" to a "growth mindset"

• Team dynamics and communication 

• The Engineering Design Process

• Interdisciplinary work

• Meta-cognition 

Overall I learned how to approach large problems from many different perspectives/lenses which allowed me to brainstorm a variety of different solutions while considering the world impact of a design.