Independent Component 1 Update!

~Spar of an aircraft wing. One thing we looked at was the different types of aircraft structures and their various components. There are several factors that determine them, including the nature of use, the availability of materials, and the method manufacturing.

Today for mentorship, I started working on my independent component. We started the day off by brainstorming ideas for my independent component. In order to help me find a clear direction to with for my senior project, my mentor and I created a document and planned out my entire independent component 1. We created a central thesis or essential question in order to help me find the necessary research for the component, some background information I should research, and experimentation ideas that will help me find qualitative and quantitative data to be used as supportive evidence for my answer. We also had to change some aspects of my I.C. 1, like expanding on the design and research phase, while scaling down the building phase. When I had initially planned out my independent component, I was expecting the building phase to be this big and challenging phase; however, when my mentor and I decided to base my I.C. thesis around additive manufacturing, we had to change the entirety of the building phase. I decided that this change would be beneficial because it would also allow me to expand on the design, research, and testing phase. In other words, with the changes in the building phase, I would be able to come up with better designs, and test multiple components.

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