Life of an engineering student

  Functions and Features of the Tesla Advanced Driver Assistance System The Tesla autopilot system, also known as the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) is a revolutionary autopilot system designed to become fully autonomous in the near future (The Economic Times, 2023). Our research is focused primarily on the safety features of the system, the autopilot software and lastly how they all work in conjunction with the futuristic Graphical User Interface (GUI). There are three levels to the autopilot system which vary based on the features that come with it. It starts off with the basic autopiloting system, the enhanced autopiloting system and lastly the full self-driving capability system, which is the most expensive of the three (Ahsan, 2023). However, the autopilot system would not be able to work as well safety-wise if not for the Tesla vision, which has eight externally installed cameras around the vehicle. The cameras provide a 360-degree view of its surroundings, so as ...

 Together with my partner, Krish, we have decided on Tesla’s futuristic auto-pilot system and GUI. When we were tasked with the assignment, the first thing that came to mind for me was the Tesla Cybertruck as I was really interested in the features and functions of the vehicle when I first rode it in 2022. However upon further research, I found that Tesla vehicles generally use the same GUI and system features as monthly updates are dispatched to the vehicles much like how smart phone updates work.  Fig 1.1 (Dashboard and steering wheel of a Tesla Vehicle) Fig 1.2 (Tesla's GUI, User interface and features of the screen) Fig 1.3 (Tesla Model Y) 1. We first utilised ChatGPT (GAI) and prompted it to give us more details about Tesla’s GUI and autopilot’s key features and functions as both of them work hand in hand to enhance the driving experience for the drivers. We did this with prompts such as “ Give me a full rundown of Tesla’s autopilots functions and features” and “How do th...

 Dear Professor Blackstone, I hope this message finds you well. My name is Denzel, and I am currently studying and pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering in the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). I am hoping to be able to provide some insights in this blog as to why I chose this specific course to study and what my goals are for this module. I recently graduated about 2 years ago with a Mechanical Engineering Diploma from Singapore Polytechnic. But if I am being honest with you, studying engineering and being an engineer wasn't exactly what I wanted in the past. If you had asked me back when I was about 18 years old about what exactly I was interested in, I would have said something drastically different, maybe somewhere along the lines of studying communications, design and art as that was I was more interested in back then instead of physics and solving math equations. However, my grades were not good enough to enter the course of my choice after my O levels, which in ...

 After going through the six quotes provided, I felt like the one by Akbar R Khan really resonated with me as I’m currently a student as well. To start off, it is indeed harder for us students to be taken seriously as we have little to no work experience at all as we mainly focus on simpler and more isolated projects which do not have the same complexities as an actual project in an engineering company. This would deter us from being able to communicate properly as well due to the fact that as a university student, we might not be able to view communication as a very impactful factor in our industry because of the stereotypical thinking that engineering students are bad at communicating as there was barely any considerable emphasis placed on communication. Furthermore, in proper engineering companies and industries, teams are more dynamic and the roles that each individual have are more specific compared to that in terms of the context of a class. Thus, without an exposure to the i...