Second Day

What did you do today?

Briefly describe your day's activities
Today, I went to the School of Materials Science and Engineering. We had to do the composite material processing first. We were given instructions then were let off to make our own composite material out of Glass Fibre and Carbon Fibre. We had to mix the matrix and the fibres together which was also mixed with epoxy to create a hardened plate. The lecturer also proved to us that it was hard by knocking it on the table and it did not break because of the epoxy.

Then, after a tea break, we were on to test the tensile strength of the engineering materials. There, we used a machine to test how much stress a type of material can handle before it broke. The materials that we tested were aluminium+copper alloy, mild steel, polystyrene and polyethylene. We took the remains of our fractured materials to bring home as a souvenir.

How do you feel about today's activities?

Describe how the project has affected your understanding of the discipline

The project has made understand more of the project that physics and chemistry is not just about theories, calculations and memorisation of the periodic table, but to be able to apply what you learn, appreciate more about the things that we see everyday and understand what material they are made of and how the materials are made.

How may this discipline be applied elsewhere?

This discipline can be applied when we are in the engineering field, where we use the most suitable materials for our blueprints of the devices that we are going to make.

First Day

Pre camp
What sounds interesting about this project?
- Something that sounds interesting about this project is that we would be able to see how composite materials are formed and the calculations necessary so that the material would be manufactured correctly.

What do you think you can learn from this project?
- What I can learn from this project is the different types of materials used in engineering and why these materials are used.

Any immediate questions regarding the project?
- I have no immediate questions for the project.

Plenary Sessions
Note down at least one key learning point for each lesson

Earthquake Research on the Coral Reefs of Sumatra
Corals can be used to date back different points of time and trace when different tsunamis happened
An island would be sinking into the ground over time and would only be risen during an earthquake

IT for Animations
Mathematics is important and is a must, even if you are creating animations.
2D animation is more expensive to produce than 3D animations

Innovation Breakthroughs in Nano-Science and Nano-technology
Nanotechnology has been around since 1959
It is the ability to manipulate individual atoms