Week 6/10

Part 1: Help Your Teammates to Develop Capstone Ideas

I shared a couple of my ideas for capstone project. I think I'm leaning towards the parking lot digital twin system. It was interesting learning what others were thinking of. One team member had an idea for a skate spot database app. I like how this connects with a personal interest and could really help people solve a problem. It's leading me to reflect more on what I'm considering for my capstone to be sure I'm solving a problem that others are facing.


Part 2: Keep Up With Your Learning Journal

I learned a lot about the resources that the university provides for career development. Since I'm considering graduate school I dove into that area. I dove into a rabbit hole of GMAT vs. GRE testing and what it means for MBA admissions. I found some people citing that GRE is becoming more acceptable and GMAT is more expensive and more difficult. I need to look further into this course of action.

I appreciated Dr. Tao's video on what companies are looking for. Putting tech skills last stuck out to me and aligned with my experience as a hiring manager. Of course these are necessary, but knowing that someone is going to be a good teammate and a good execution engine is more important. Those are harder skills to develop. Most companies have a lot of custom technology and technical standards that must be learned on the job. If someone can nail all the other soft skills, then the tech skills are much easier to develop and the hiring manager will have confidence that this person will show up every day ready to get stuff done and continue to grow in their position. I have never met a good leader that wants anything else for their people.

For our final project, OtterBots is making videos on drone delivery technology. This is interesting to me as I have previously worked in the field and have been granted a patent on drone delivery systems and methods. We have developed a couple approaches for the different videos. For the kids video, one of our members used an AI presentation software and came up with a great video. It's almost fully ready to deliver, no pun intended. For the professional video I suggested using a strategy that was successful in another class I took, where we come up with an overall script and divide the video into portions for each team member to do. This was effective in the other class which was also asynchronous learning, so I hope it will be successful here as well.

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