Helping 2013

Date: Apr. 18, 2012
Interviewee: Nick Gonzalez

1. What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?
a) Something in aerospace engineering or automotive engineering, because he likes math and is good at seeing how objects manipulate each other and how the manipulation can be used. 
b) He gets bad grades in math so I told him to get his grades up and to make sure that he wouldn't mind looking up articles and reading books about engineering and math concepts. 


2.  What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning (working with an expert) which is due prior to senior year starting?
a) He's close to his friend's brother-in-law and he can hook him up with service learning. The details were already discussed. 
b) I told him to find a back up, just in case, which he already has, and to make sure that his service learning can give him access to future interviews.


3. What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?
a) He said he wants to see how everyone presents and how the powerpoint template looks so that he knows how to to do one next year. 
b) I told him to take note of the research the presenter cites, how they got their data, and how much research they did. 


4. What questions do they have about senior project?  What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project?  Be specific and note what you told them
a) He wanted to know how much research and do you get to do research in class.
b) I told him that he gets to research in class and that we needed 70 articles by a certain date. I also advised to do research before the year starts to get ahead and do more than the mandatory research checks.