My name is Winter Saeedi. Here is a picture of myself.
My project team will be working on the full-scale test
track, which involves footings, columns, guideway, and expansion joints. My
interests mainly lie within the realm of vibrations and acoustics, so we’ll see
how well these topics merge.
This blog post focuses on the failures and successes from
past work that relates to my project team. As a disclaimer, I have no past work
that relates to this team project. However, I hopefully have sufficient skills
and education relevant enough. I have a background in music and I’ve taken
plenty of physics and engineering classes, so the foundation has been laid out.
Furthermore, I spent this past summer interning at Seagate Technology, so I have
work experience in a technological field. At Seagate, I worked on several
projects relating to the sputter tool conveyor system. My team recognized that
my aptitude was centered around mechanical design, so I designed numerous parts
using SolidWorks, and was able to follow these parts from conception to
manufactured deployment.
I will be focusing on vibrations for this year-long project
so I hope to gain valuable skills surrounding this topic. I’m concurrently
taking the course on Vibrations and Controls, so I’ll be learning a majority of
the information throughout the semester. One of my greatest challenges during
my internship with Seagate was that I lacked the knowledge necessary to further
the complexity of the projects I worked on. Sure, I learned best by immersing
myself into projects unknown, but it was much more difficult than already
having the knowledge beforehand. I’ll be recreating that scenario again through
my work with Superway.
In the past, I’ve also worked on a few group projects in
several various college courses. In my design class last semester, my team
designed a pedal-powered baby rocker, utilizing our knowledge of geometric,
force, and stress analysis. We learned as the class progressed, so while the
task was daunting at first, ultimately we finished with a viable model and
plethora of new information. I look forward to learning more about the basics
of the guideway and furthering my knowledge on top of that to become a worthy
team member of Spartan Superway.
