As previously stated in another post, During my capstone project this year, my project manager (the class’ professor) let my team know ahead of time that our customer (the professor we were working for) was disappointed in the past by their capstone group. He told us to make sure we apply significant effort into the project at hand because he didn’t want our customer to be disappointed a second time. This heads up motivated my team and I intensely, and as we come to the end of our project, our customer is extremely happy with our progress.

In addition, I also took the course with Dr. Mantilla that djr32 mentioned in the beginning of the post. That course was one of the most challenging and rewarding courses I’ve taken at NJIT. It took me a few weeks to realize that the more you prepare for the course, the more participation points you receive. This knowledge motivated me to constantly read the material before class so I was able to answer Dr. Mantilla’s questions. Within this class Dr. Mantilla could be viewed as the PM. At the end of the course he wanted us to make two boats that we powered with electrically stimulated frog legs. Throughout the semester he provided us with the knowledge and productive criticism we needed to get to that point. We learned about different parts of the body, how to read EMG and EEG data, how to write a structured lab report, and how to dissect a frog and isolate the important muscles and nerves. He was constantly motivating us to use the engineering knowledge we required to make a functioning boat.