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Electrical Engineers Assignment
Robotics Week Reflection
As an alternate view of the benefits of robotics, I think this constant advancement may not all be for the good of the human race. Robots are built to do human jobs and make things easier for humans. Robotics is also making huge steps every day towards bigger, better, and more efficient technology. If this advancement continues though, the need for human labor will be minimized or even expended. The only jobs that will remain are more creative and abstract such as designing the robotics systems and improving their errors. This will cause huge unemployment if the education system doesn’t change to start nurturing kid’s natural creative and abstract thinking styles.
Dawn of computers ted talk
The TED Talk was on the dawn of computing. Back when the first atomic bombs were being tested, a group of engineers got together to build a computer in an unused building at Princeton University. This was the dawn of using electrons to compute simple
calculations, mainly pertaining to the developing bombs at this time. The main body of the talk discussed how the engineers worked incessantly to try and make this machine work how they needed it to. By looking at their journals, we could tell many late hours were spend frustrated over tiny problems that kept slowing their work. The other main point adressed, was Berachelli's universe. This virologist worked with the machine whenever the bomb team weren't, creating his own 5000 bit universe. He said the code produced from this program running modeled what nature has done in the past million years and published many studies on it, but to this day we have not figured out how he made the simple code do this complex evolution.
I thought the talk was very insightful, and a nice tribute to the team of workers who laid the foundation for modern computing. It was funny looking through the various problems and reactions in the engineer's reserch notebooks, and gave insight to what kinds of people it took to keep working at this process. But Berachelli's universe was most interesting to me. The fact that this man created an evolving universe that could run on the ancient machine that we, even now, can't quite figure out is facinating to me, and presents a challenge that I would like to look into.
calculations, mainly pertaining to the developing bombs at this time. The main body of the talk discussed how the engineers worked incessantly to try and make this machine work how they needed it to. By looking at their journals, we could tell many late hours were spend frustrated over tiny problems that kept slowing their work. The other main point adressed, was Berachelli's universe. This virologist worked with the machine whenever the bomb team weren't, creating his own 5000 bit universe. He said the code produced from this program running modeled what nature has done in the past million years and published many studies on it, but to this day we have not figured out how he made the simple code do this complex evolution.
I thought the talk was very insightful, and a nice tribute to the team of workers who laid the foundation for modern computing. It was funny looking through the various problems and reactions in the engineer's reserch notebooks, and gave insight to what kinds of people it took to keep working at this process. But Berachelli's universe was most interesting to me. The fact that this man created an evolving universe that could run on the ancient machine that we, even now, can't quite figure out is facinating to me, and presents a challenge that I would like to look into.
Smart Manufacturing Assignment
TED Summary:
The TED talk stated that in the new age of automated machine workforces, the future is not bleak for human workers. McAfee said that the automated workforce will free up monotonous jobs from humans and allow them to the do the creative, innovative, and management aspects of work. So, jobs are not going to disappear, only change (we’ll still need guys to fix the machines too). But we also need to adapt to this change. McAfee also talked about our education system, and how it currently churns out the average laborer, and as stated before, those job slots are being filled by machines. If we want to stroll easily into the age of machine labor, McAfee says we need to change the school system to create creative and innovative workers to run these systems and make them better.
Smart Manufacturing Website:
1. The Manufacturing Doesn’t Matter Camp
Members are numerous and influential, believe America should work more on feeding knowledge and services to the global economy than stuff.
2. The “Manufacturing Matters” Camp
Recognize that manufacturing is critical, but believe government taxes and regulations are the cause of all the problems.
3. The Manufacturing Matters Camp
Believe that productive manufacturing will continue to drive the U.S. economy; want to invest in technology to make it cleaner, faster, and generally more efficient.
- I would put myself in the third group.
Wall Street Journal Summary:
Advances in manufacturing tech have put far-fetched ideas closer and closer to reality. Many factories are now entirely run by cloud computing systems, and can be viewed and controlled from any device able to connect to that cloud. This is allowing big companies to be even more productive, and bringing advanced tech into the hands of smaller companies as well. The most promising advance though, is additive manufacturing. More commonly known as 3D printing, these machines can produce virtually anything from code exactly the same way, every single time. Also, its detail capability enables the machines to print parts in one piece that would have previously required multiple different pieces to assemble. With these advances and the new ones growing every day, we may be on the brink of a new industrial revolution.
Rethinking Robots:
Pop culture has made ideas of automated robots run rampant in the American public. As shown in a study by Smart Manufacturing, 37% of Americans think automated robots will have a negative effect on the U.S. economy and two thirds think there will be either no change, or a worsening. This is not the case, these robots that are feared by some are making factories more efficient and safer every day. Also, the robots do not eliminate jobs, they just create more elsewhere, in managing their systems.
Manufacturing In America: Making Things Right:
Manufacturing leaders feel positively about the future, and are trying to get the rest of America to feel that way. The industry is growing in gigantic leaps all across the globe, and is causing competition between economies, and growth from that.
Extra Credit Ideas:
· Create a functional part in Autodesk Inventor
· Create a multiple-part device in AutoCAD
· Do a stress analysis of a part in Autodesk
The TED talk stated that in the new age of automated machine workforces, the future is not bleak for human workers. McAfee said that the automated workforce will free up monotonous jobs from humans and allow them to the do the creative, innovative, and management aspects of work. So, jobs are not going to disappear, only change (we’ll still need guys to fix the machines too). But we also need to adapt to this change. McAfee also talked about our education system, and how it currently churns out the average laborer, and as stated before, those job slots are being filled by machines. If we want to stroll easily into the age of machine labor, McAfee says we need to change the school system to create creative and innovative workers to run these systems and make them better.
Smart Manufacturing Website:
1. The Manufacturing Doesn’t Matter Camp
Members are numerous and influential, believe America should work more on feeding knowledge and services to the global economy than stuff.
2. The “Manufacturing Matters” Camp
Recognize that manufacturing is critical, but believe government taxes and regulations are the cause of all the problems.
3. The Manufacturing Matters Camp
Believe that productive manufacturing will continue to drive the U.S. economy; want to invest in technology to make it cleaner, faster, and generally more efficient.
- I would put myself in the third group.
Wall Street Journal Summary:
Advances in manufacturing tech have put far-fetched ideas closer and closer to reality. Many factories are now entirely run by cloud computing systems, and can be viewed and controlled from any device able to connect to that cloud. This is allowing big companies to be even more productive, and bringing advanced tech into the hands of smaller companies as well. The most promising advance though, is additive manufacturing. More commonly known as 3D printing, these machines can produce virtually anything from code exactly the same way, every single time. Also, its detail capability enables the machines to print parts in one piece that would have previously required multiple different pieces to assemble. With these advances and the new ones growing every day, we may be on the brink of a new industrial revolution.
Rethinking Robots:
Pop culture has made ideas of automated robots run rampant in the American public. As shown in a study by Smart Manufacturing, 37% of Americans think automated robots will have a negative effect on the U.S. economy and two thirds think there will be either no change, or a worsening. This is not the case, these robots that are feared by some are making factories more efficient and safer every day. Also, the robots do not eliminate jobs, they just create more elsewhere, in managing their systems.
Manufacturing In America: Making Things Right:
Manufacturing leaders feel positively about the future, and are trying to get the rest of America to feel that way. The industry is growing in gigantic leaps all across the globe, and is causing competition between economies, and growth from that.
Extra Credit Ideas:
· Create a functional part in Autodesk Inventor
· Create a multiple-part device in AutoCAD
· Do a stress analysis of a part in Autodesk
Significant Bridge
The Da Vinci Bridge
The Da Vinci Bridge
Significant Building Presentation:
Neuschwanstein Castle
Neuschwanstein Castle
