BMG 2019 Grammarian Issue 2

9 What skills do you think you acquired throughout your Systems Engineering project(s)? The skills I have acquired through my Mechatronics and Systems Engineering projects have mainly focused on embedded electronics and computing. There have been mechanical aspects too. While making the enclosure for the electronic handpan and servo movements for the face tracking camera I made in the second Mechatronics semester. The systems nature of each of these projects have provided me with a solid handle for the co-design requirements of hardware and software, the computation price of real time computer processing, the concept of form, feel and function in the design of the various projects as well as the discipline to document the work in a folio to meet the subjects marking criteria. Each of my projects has brought with them unique challenges and expanded my knowledge enormously. I now have a good feel for what makes every day stuff around me work and what I may be able to do to make that product better than it is now, or to create something entirely new to meet some unmet need.