Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Title:  Advisory Meeting #2
Label: Presentation
Due Date:  Thursday 2/27 by 8AM

Content:

Answer 2: " The planning aspects of Transportation Engineering that relate to Urban Planning"

Technical forecasting of passenger travel usually involves an urban transportation planning model, requiring the estimation of trip generation (how many trips for what purpose), trip distribution (destination choice, where is the traveler going), mode choice (what mode is being taken), and route assignment (which streets or routes are being used). 

Sources:  http://ceg.osu.edu/undergraduate/civil-engineering/transportation-and-geodetic-engineering

               https://engineering.purdue.edu/ITE

Concluding Sentence: These are the focus of transport engineering because they often represent the peak of demand on any transportation system.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
- For my 30 hours I plan on working with a Transportation planner and doing mentorship with him because this way I can get a different point of view of the projects that Engineers work on. It will be helpful and I will learn something new each time.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
- I will meet the the 30 hours expectation by taking pictures while at mentorship and keeping my mentorship log up to date. I will also try to do mentorship at least twice a week so that I finish my 30 hours quickly. 


3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
- What I will be doing is going to help me understand my topic in depth because I will learn how projects are started and how they are analyzed before engineers can get to work. I will learn things that not many engineers know and it will eventually help me in the long run because I will go into college already knowing these things,

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

Title: Lesson 2 reflection
Label:Presentation 2

Content:

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
- Something I am most proud if from my presentation is that I did not have to read off my slides because I actually practiced and recited my information days before.

2. Questions to Consider       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
- I believe I deserve this grade because I met the time requirement and I felt like I had good information that will actually help my peers in the future. I also feel like I met most of the requirements. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
- What worked for me is that we had to only focus on our essential question and our answer which made everything a lot easier for all of us. I also felt like the activity made the students feel as if they were actually doing the job and it was well executed.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
- If I had a time machine, I would go back and take my time to explain how the field survey sheet works on the board and show what the final product looks like so that they can have a general idea of what a day  at the field looks like for a planner or engineer.

5. Finding Value
What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? 
- I think my answer 2 will be "by figuring out the geometry of the future project site"

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Title:  Independent Component 1
Label:  Independent Component
Due Date:  Friday 2/7 at 8AM
Content: 

(a) - Literal "I, Isaac Salas, Affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work"

(b) - https://www.ite.org/ 

(c) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnIhfdyOzX40dDlxOUV5V2JUUDg5MGRMemswLU4yd2c&usp=sharing#gid=0

(d) - While doing these 30 hours for my independent component I completed several things. I went to mentor ship and actually understood a lot more this time because I began to ask more questions.  I went with my mentor from city to city and analyzed many different intersections, streets, and highways. During Mentor ship my mentor and I used worksheets to write down how many left or right turns, how many lanes, and if there were pockets in each  intersection. 

Interpretive:

 Here I am with my mentor in the city of Bell gardens and we are analyzing an intersection. We did this several times in different cities. These worksheets are meant for the engineers to know what kind of intersection they will be working with. This is a significant part of my project because without this I would not get the actual data that I need and we would be relying on past reports that are outdated by now.

Applied: This component helped me understand the foundation of my project better because instead of just counting the vehicles that passed by the intersections and measuring the lanes and crosswalks, I actually began to learn why there are a certain amount of lanes in each street and why there cant be bus stops just anywhere. Or why the street division should be raised or not. This component helped me learn a lot more than I would have thought.