Money Ball Blog

1) Beane and Brandt decided to go for underrated players that were cheap based off their on base %

2) Times getting on base/Total at bats

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4)

• Define the problem-Beane defined that they had little money but needed players
• Refine the design-Beane needed to change his strategy because his "moneyball" players were not preforming to the standard they were thought to
• Communicate Processes and Results-Brandt showed that the moneyball approach was a success by showing the minor league player who hit a homerun and didn't realize it

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• Beane fired the head scouter because he wouldn't except his way of doing things
• Beane made trades to improve the team
• The coach put in Hatteberg to save the streak

7) 68-51

8) 1.33:1

9)20 games

10) In class

11) something special

12) Beane tried to keep it a science based thing, but when the team was not performing the way it was suppose to before the trade deadline, Beane made a slight change to a form of art by deciding to trade some moneyball players away.

Glider Challenge Deliverables

Design:

• decided on basic body shape


• did measurements of woods to make scale


• decided how long we wanted wing span based off of how far the wins could go without bending


• sketched a few possible ideas

Building:

• Day one: built basic body and glued wings together


• Day two: glued wings on body


• Day three: rebuilt broken wings


• Day four: rebuilt more durable wings


• Day five: laid on tissue paper

Flight Day:

• terrible flight time


• 2nd distance flight after a throw off

Improvements needed:

• stronger woings because ours broke every day of building


• put on a nose weight after first test flight

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Cheaper Robots

Significance:

• factories that use robots can buy them cheaper
• if bought cheaper more will be bought
• with more bought, mass production becomes easier
• more mass production=cheaper products
• cheaper products=more items bought
• economy will go up if more objects are bought

Ted Part 1

1) What is the TED organization about?

• technology topics told using entertainment

2) What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?

• Purpose is to tell people about new technological advancements
• do it with entertainment, ie, comedy
• yes done very well

3) As Engineers and Problem Solvers, which topic areas (the choices from the "Show talks related to:" section on the sidebar) are of most interest to us? Justify your answer.

• Technology
• we are in an engineering course
• Engineers improve technology for greater good of people

4) Based on your previous answer, what are 3 talks (videos) on the site that appear like they would be of most interest to you as an Engineer/Problem Solver? Justify your choices.

• Amber Case: We are all Cyborgs Now-talks about how people use electronics for everything-overuse of tech
• Bertrand Piccard's solar powered adventure-using solar airplane to go around world-new technology
• Eben Bayer-are mushrooms the new plastic-new technology to change the world

5)

• plastics take a lot of energy to make
• do not decompose easily
• mushrooms make a glue like material
• if left in case will mold together
• decomposes easily
• just as strong as Styrofoam
• only uses energy from mushrooms

6) How could you get involved in the field/technology/issue you chose to hear about? What experience/skills/training/education would you need to learn to get involved with this field?

• i could get involved by only using organic plastics
• I don't know what I would need to learn, but Biology would seem important because I would need to know a lot about composition of mushrooms or any other plant used to make plastics

Robopro 1st activity

• when one of the variables gets changed, all with same name get changed
• do not need to be connected
  
  

l (distance) = m
t (time) = s
m (mass) = kg
a (area) = m^2
v (velocity) = m/s
(density) = kg/m^3
g (gravity) = m/s^2
F (force) = kg*m/s^2
E (energy) = (kg*m^2)/s^2
P (power) = (kg*m^2)/s^3

Content is King

My field-aerospace engineering(helicopters)

Example of blog:
http://www.sae.org/mags/aem/power/news

• talk about new innovations with their company-SAE International

Fields I see me blogging about:

• New inventions



• step by step on the project I'm working on



• Pictures of my projects