The two-week engineering project was somewhat a success but could be improved in many ways. To start with, although our solar power car was able to spin and transform the energy from the solar panels to the motor and leading the fan blade to spin. However, the energy wasn’t enough to turn into kinetic energy and actually push the car forward without any outside support. As of my project now, the solar car is able to spin on its own, but it stays at rest which does not meets the expectation of actually pushing the car forward. Some ways we could improve for future projects are that first, if we could better utilize the time given, we could better solve the issue by changing the mass of the car and the power of the motor. Maybe changing the base into plastic which weights less and buying a bigger sized or energy contained motor online in which could provide enough energy for pushing the car forward. Another thing that I can improve on for my future projects is that I should always make sure that I come up and a plan in which is able to accomplish before starting the process of making and producing. This project really reflected on why its important to plan out everything well and solid first before acting, or else the result might differ and possibly fail to meet its requirements. Last thing I could improve for this project is the collaboration between the group members, as me and Joesph each divided individual roles and jobs in which we decided to work separately first and then assemble everything together. This might seem like a time-saving way to approach the project, but it actually ruined things up, as there were miscommunication in which just messed up the plan and wasted a lot of time. Thus, for future projects, these three major lessons I went through in this project will be reconsidered and hopefully avoided.
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