Wonjea's Reflection.

This ME 250 class was my first class that I ever took here at University of Michigan. Since I just transferred from another college, this semester was my first term at here. I was not sure which class I should choose, and my ME advisor told me to take this class. At first, I did not expect to make any real machine from this class. I just thought we will design a thing by program like cad, and make it simply using some foams and woods. However, the real course work was beyond my expectation.

I would not forget many nights that I could not sleep because of cad assignment. I had never used cad before, so it was so time consuming and hard to finish it on time. It seemed like computer language program. When I was stuck due to the lack of knowledge of the program, there was no way I could go furthur without someone's help. So, in the process of doing cad assignment, I spent many times with my classmates to figure out how to make things together. Anyway, cad lecture from GSI helped a lot. I really appreciate their help.

Another main problem was making the real machine. I had no experience about making something especially by mechanical tools, so "real" making process was so hard and embarrassing. We might have failed to finish making the robot on time because whenever we made something, unexpected error and problem occured. This unexpected things delayed us all the time. At the same time, however, making process was the best time for me. It was really fun to make things on my own and it made me go back to the lecture slides and learn the contents. I gain much motivation about materials covered in lecture to complete our machine. So, making machine gave me the basic reason to study.

Finally, I learnd the importance of teamwork and distribution. While in ME 250 class, we were assigned a lot of assignments. So, to finish all that assignments correctly and on time, we better devide the work to each teammate. By distributing all the work, we could have finished the assignments on time. At this time, I really want to say think you for all my teammates. Our teammates did really good job that I was not able to finish. If there were no help from them, I would not have finished the assignments. I am sure that everyone who passes this ME 250 class will know that the power of group work.

I hope I can apply what I experienced and learned from ME 250 class and group working to my future life. I am sure that will be very helpful especially whenever I am working with other people.