For this week’s post I was instructed to find a hand-on activity.
However, this proved to be very difficult to do since work in this field is
rather complicated. My best opportunity
for doing something hands on happened
last weekend when my cousin was in town. He mentioned he had some work to do
and I asked if I could watch, sort of like job shadowing. This cousin of mine
was the same one who I interviewed several weeks ago for another post in this
class.
The work
my cousin had to get done was finishing up a design for a new product concept
for his company. His work was done by using a program on his computer that made
designing 3 dimensional objects very easy. I was partially familiar with the
program because I had used a very similar version in a drafting class I took in
high school. I am sure I made his work take much longer than it should have
because I asked so many questions. But I am (pretty) sure he didn’t mind.
I know
that my cousin is not a biomedical engineer, but biomedical engineers still
have to make designs for their products just like my cousin does. I know there
are lots of differences in the smaller details that I missed out on but I did
get some insight into the precision that engineers put into their work. My cousin spent several minutes debating on
how to fit 2 components of a motor together within certain ranges of space that
could be allowed in this project. I think this is one of a few observations I made
that would be hard to make just from talking to him about his job. Perhaps you
could tell that their job has to be very precise, but you don’t really have a
firm understanding of this before you see an engineer move pieces centimeters
to make a large difference in various areas of the design.
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