Thursday, March 25, 2010

Personal Reflection (NEwater visit)

1. What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s visit?
-The process of making NEWater is not as simple as it seems.
-We must learn how to treasure and conserve water.
-Singapore has currently 4 methods in quenching Singapore’s high demands for water.

2. Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today during the visit.
-I learnt that bacteria and other harmful organisms will not pass through the selectively permeable membrane used in the "cleaning" process, thus making the household used water clean.
-The use of UV rays does not emphasize on the heat, but rather the intensity.

3. What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?
- I learnt that Singaporeans use 600 Olympic pools of water daily.

4.What are the things that you can do to help with water conservation in Singapore?
-I can save water by taking a shower instead of a bath.
-I can reuse water (eg. water for mopping the floor can be reused to water plants)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Personal Reflection (8th Mar 2010)

What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s lesson?
I learnt that we need to focus on our target audience in order to innovate a product.
I learnt that we need to prepare for our project presentation weeks before instead of a last minute rushed work.
I learnt that in order to successfully complete a project, every group member has to put in effort.

Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today pertaining to design and describe why is it important in design?
Designing is part of the planning process, meaning that we need a design of the prototype in order to make it so that we can minimise the mistakes we are going to make.
Designs have to be eye catching so that people would know and understand the idea behind the use of the object.

What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?
I learnt that we must be able to arouse people’s attention before implementing our ideas into the society, instead of just going ahead with our plans. I always thought that as long as we have the idea and prototype, we can go ahead to implement it in our world.