Blog 6: Second Interview

Questions:

1. Do you like your field?
2. How much experience do you have in your field?
3. Where and how did you acquire your skills?
4. Did you initially have trouble learning?
5. What was your biggest problem pursuing or while in your career?
6. When in your entire career have you had the most success?
7. Where else have you worked besides at your current location?Are the different places better or worse?
8.  How did you end up where you are now?
9. Is there anything bad about your job?
10. Do you recommend this career to me or any one else?

SF Blog A:Problem Statement

1. Topic:

• My topic is Car Audio, this includes, the voltage provided to the audio equipment, the head unit, speakers, amplifiers, and other installations made for improving sound quality.

2. Problems:

• A major problem in car audio, is distortion of sound, this occurs in the process of amplification.
• Another problem is audio feedback, this occurs a lot with bluetooth, audio control, and amp to head unit feedback.
• A problem that only occurs in larger sysetems is lack of voltage provided by the automotive battery, this occurs when the system drawls more voltage than the alternator can charge.

3. What will be done upon the discovery of solutions:

• The first thing I would do once any of these problems are solved, is let any fellow installer know and implement the solution into instalation jobs. I would later inform the customer on the solution, and the only real way for my solution to be widely known, is to post solutions on forums and web pages of such. 

Blog 4: Interview Reflection and Working Essential Question

The Pentagon:

1.What positive thing happened as a result of the interview?

• Thanks to this interview I realize and understand more, that you always have to want something to be exceptional at it, because my interviewee does not completely like his job, I believe if he did like it, he could go further.

2.How did this help you better understand your topic?

• Having this interview, helped me understand more, on what you get out of the job, for example, pay, benefits etc... It also helped me understand that car audio, is more complicated than I thought, its not just about the sound, its about the cars, complete electrical system.

3.What worked in the interview?

• My interview, was over the phone, because I couldn't see him personally so other arrangements where made, but despite being on the phone, the interview was very casual, small talk about the topic itself worked really well, to keep it interesting, but was on topic enough so that side tracking was not possible.

4.What didn't work in the interview?

• Formality in this interview, was not a necessity, I had no use for it with this particular interview, I believe it's because he doesn't sit behind a desk, and I was already acquainted and familiarized with him. Also directly written questions where difficult to use because I did my interview in Spanish, if I had used the exact direct questions, there would have been translation issues, and a lack of flowing subtlety.

5.Finding value, based on your experience so far:

1. What possible question or questions, come to mind regarding what you would like to study this year?
2. What is your end goal this year with your senior project?
3. Who would you like to talk to next and why?

• I had no questions what so ever, about what i would like to study.
• My end goal for this senior topic, is to know anything and everything there is to learn about my topic, I would also like to get my installers certification, and find a better paid job in the same field.

• I would like to complete my second interview on my first interviewee's coworker, I believe he would be nice to do my next interview on because he is an excellent installer, he has been doing it for many years, he knows a lot about what he does, and he loves his job.

Blog 3: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?

• I plan on interviewing one of to persons that work at Car Audio Depot, the place where i do my service learning hours, I chose these people because one of them has been doing this job since he was 14 and the other has 18 years experience I also don't know any other experts in the car audio field so in a way they are my only option.

2. What additional questions do you plan to ask?

• How did you get started in this field? What made you interested?
• Do you ever take classes or courses to stay up to date on new technology and models?
• What is the biggest mess up you have ever done on a customers car?
• If you could go back and redo it, would this still be the field you would want to work in?
• Where and how did you learn most of your skills?

Blog 2: Topic Choice

Assignment

1. What is your topic and why?

• My chosen topic is Car Audio because when I was 14 my cousin in Mexico taught me how to install amplifiers, and stereos, and since I like to do it so much, I decided I would do my senior project on car audio. I am really attracted to this topic because I always liked cars and I have always known quite a bit about them, and I have always liked having the biggest speaker and really loud music, so this fuses the two interests together, and after doing many hours of mentorship, I have learned that there is much more to car audio than installing a stereo, I really like this topic and what it involves, and I believe that this topic will allow me to do well and excel in this years senior project.

2. What do you hope to accomplish this year with this topic?

• This year I plan to learn more, respect and self control in order to become a better Ipoly citizen. I will accomplish this with my topic, because installing stereos requires a lot of patience and you must be able to serve a customer and make them happy, by doing this i feel i will have more control, patience, and respect. I will become a better communicator and speaker in the process of completing this project because at times, there are situations in which you can't complete a job on your own, or you have to be able to communicate with a customer to know what exactly it is they want installed and how they want it installed. My learning abilities will be challenged and increased with this project because you are always learning when it comes to cars, because there are always newer designs and models that are released into the market, I found that many times, experts in this field must continuously learn and keep up with the car and audio industry to know and accomplish a better installation. Throughout this project I will become a much more effective user of technology, because my topic is completely based on new technologies, in order to produce a better sound, or display in a speaker or radio.