Tuesday, March 23, 2010

LEAP Week - NEWater Visit

1. What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s visit?

a) How NEWater is made.
b) Why should we conserve water
c) How do we use NEWater

2. Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today during the visit.

a) I've learnt that the 4 mains sources of water are: local catchment water, imported water, desalinated water and NEWater
b) I learnt the approximated percentage of water we are receiving from each source. NEWater (now) -> 15%, Local Catchment water -> 10% Desalinated water -> 10% and imported water -> remaining = 75%
Note: unknown source, and may be inaccurate.

3. What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?

a) That NEWater can only be for sample and not for daily consumed water.

4. What are the things that you can do to help with water conservation in Singapore?

a) I can value, conserve and enjoy water.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Personal Reflection (8th Mar 2010)

1. What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s lesson?

(a) I learnt that the customers' point is very important, we ourselves think it is good is not enough. We need advice from customers and should not neglect their point.

(b) The design needs to be creative and new so that it will spark the interest in other people

(c) We can explore other products and find out their good points and try to combine them into one good design.

2. Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today pertaining to design and describe why is it important in design?

(a) We need to design not only the appearance but how it works, like the tubes inside etc to give the constructor/producer a clearer mind in what to do.

(b) Need to look at safety precautions at all times. To design a thing, you have to ALWAYS consider safety. Safety always comes first before quality.


3. What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?

I have learnt that designing things are never easy as it is not that you just thought of it and draw. You still need to make a lot of precautions. Need to make market research, etc.