RoboBees Summary First Draft

In the article, "The RoboBee Flies Solo," Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (2019) addressed researchers’ breakthroughs to a decade-long process of making a self-sustaining miniature flying autonomous vehicle.

According to the article, the researchers faced difficulty in finding the perfect balance between mass and power at such a tiny scale, where efficient flight is proven to be much harder to achieve.

Throughout the decade, researchers working on this project made several important and major additions to the design of the vehicle such as including an additional pair of wings and making adjustments to the actuator and transmission ratio and thus enabled them to “put everything we need on-board without using more power, ” as stated in the article by Jafferis.

This particular change in the project let researchers remove the power cord and adding solar cells, allowing RoboBee to achieve a self-sustaining function and also fly untethered.

Formal Introductory Letter

Subject: Self-introduction

Dear Prof Blackstone,

I am writing this self introductory letter to let you know more about me. My name is Phua Jia Dang and I'm currently a first year student pursuing a Mechanical Engineering Degree in Singapore Institute of Technology after graduating from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering. My interest for engineering first developed after I realized I preferred working things out with my hands and experience back when I was younger. This interest was further developed during my time back in my robotics club that I was a part of back in my secondary school days, which paved the way for my engineering career.

My strength when it comes to communication would be my ability to project myself as looking and feeling confident. I am able to project myself with a certain degree of confidence when speaking to other people on topics that I have knowledge of. On the other hand, my weakness when it comes to speaking to other people would be that I will tend to be wary of the watchful eyes of the audience and I will start to become increasingly shy, which in turn will cause me to lose confidence and I will start to speak softer and stutter.

My ideal outcome after attending effective communications would be to maintain and continue to speak with confidence in front of any crowd, which I feel is a very important skill to obtain as this will help me during meeting presentations in front of my superiors. Also I would also want to learn how to speak clearly and effectively so that I will be able to project my ideas and intend properly as this can help prevent any miscommunication in my future workplace.

From,
Jia Dang