Hey, I hope everyone enjoyed their summer and learned many
new things along the way. Unfortunately the summer is nearing the end and the
new school year is upon us. I wish the absolute best for all of you, and hope
you succeed in everything you do.
Towards the end of my project I was working with Jack, which
is a digital human simulation software, to create a work environment of my
project to collect an ergonomic analysis. By creating an environment in Jack I
hoped to analyze the movements of the human worker. Therefore determining how
worker is affected by stress and fatigue. I quickly found out how difficult it
was to work with Jack; it took quite awhile to get use to the software, also it
crashed quite often. After a week of
getting use to the software I was able to create a similar environment of my
project to begin with. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to run an ergonomic analysis
due to time. As a result I focused on having a strong foundation for my
methodology so future work can be done. The next step of course would be to
create a solid work environment in Jack to run an ergonomic analysis;
preferably a lower back analysis and a fatigue analysis. By examining these
analyses we hope to find ways to make the workers job safer and more efficient.
This summer has been a blast, as well as a learning
experience. Although I have done research in the past, there is always
something new to learn. From not completely knowing what fluid power was, to
know being able to explain and knowing how it is being applied in the
world. I also learned things I need to
work on personally, as far as conducting independent research and presenting
the research. All in all, I am truly fortunate for this opportunity. My advice
to new comers entering research would be to take full advantage of the
opportunity. To learn from people who are experts and have experience at what
they do; also from people who are willing to take the time to teach us.
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