For my final two quarters in ECE, I was required to participate in a capstone. The ENGINE capstone program matches industry partners with student groups…

Introduction

This project, which was also one of my experiential learning experiences, is something that I have been working on with 3 other students at UW for the better part of a year. We had a vision for a system that would let us teach students about recycling in a hands-on manner. We entered in the Husky Seed Fund competition and were awarded a grant to bring our vision to life. For the past year or so, we have been designing and building a modular, portable cart system that holds and can power a variety of equipment, including a plastic shredder and injection molder. Recently, we have brought this system to several events around UW, where we have informed, educated, and recruited many students to our cause. I feel that this artifact is of particular importance to me because not only is it a cause that I am passionate about, but I was able to harness my skills from engineering to actually construct and bring our idea to life. I hope that by including it in my portfolio, I can show how my experience in different engineering classes and extracurricular experiences gave me the skills and know-how to achieve this. Below is my initial submission, and later my reflection, for this experience in my experiential learning portal.

This podcast was my final assignment for HONORS 211, which I took in the Winter quarter of 2024. The class was based on the period…

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Introduction

This experience, which was also one of my experiential learning experiences, is something that I have been doing for a little over a year and a half, part-time, outside of school. At Monod, I work on the engineering team, where we are developing a diagnostic medical device. Through this experience, I have been able to build my skills, both on the technical side and the social/business side. By including it in my portfolio, I hope to show my journey as a college student and how I got to where I am, highlighting the experiences along the way that shaped me. Below is my initial submission, and later my reflection, for this experience in my experiential learning portal.

Introduction

This artifact was my final project for HONORS 222, a class taught by KC Cole, which examined the science of human values. In this class, we looked at how we interact with science, and how different fields of science shape and define us. My final project for this class was an epilogue that I wrote for a book that I read outside of class, titled The Psychology of Money. The book talks about our relationship with money, and how our personal experiences define how we look at and feel about money. The epilogue that I wrote for this book focuses on the gamification of investing - how brokerages and financial institutions use fun graphics and easy-to-use interfaces to trick users into treating money differently than they would usually. This artifact is important to me because not only did I spend a lot of time researching and writing my final project, carefully crafting it to use similar language and verbiage to the rest of the book, but it also focused on a subject that I felt had a personal impact on me. I feel that it highlights my growth as a writer through college, and I hope that I can connect it with the other artifacts in my portfolio through this.

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