Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Blog 22: Mentorship

Due Date:  Thursday, May 14 by 8AM

Content:

LIA Response to blog:
    Literal
·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog
·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place
  • Allen Barreno, BERG Power Engineers, Inc.
    Interpretive
     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

Aside from the plethora of power engineering knowledge that my mentor has provided me, Allen has inadvertently led me to my second and third answers for my Essential Question. After my third interview, he told me about a power engineering seminar in Ontario, CA. On the third of March, I had the invaluable opportunity to attend numerous presentations, interview a handful of electrical engineers, and transcribe what felt like a vast collection of knowledge about my EQ and topic. All of this occurred within the span of eight hours. 

   Applied
     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

After interviewing the engineers, I carefully analyzed their answers to my EQ; checking for patterns and similarities. When I had finished, I had discovered that all of the engineers I had interview had one answer in common: Voltage and VAR control. This, I decided, would be one of the answers to my EQ. Upon further inspection of my notes, I also managed to find another answer among the plethora of leftovers. There were quite a few relevant answers to choose from, but in the end, only one rose to the occasion, and that was fault location and detection.

*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office.  After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody.  It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly.  The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.

Grading Criteria (May 13th)
  • 50 hours completed (50 from the academic year)
  • LIA response (submitted to your blog)
  • Essential question connection

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