Goals
- Personal Goals
- Andy: Gain experience in mechanical engineering and use what I’ve learned in the classroom to improve the world around me
- Rob: Understand how to balance personal life with a professional commitment
- Ellie: Combine my passions in sustainability, gender equality, and mechanical engineering to make a long lasting impact on the people involved in this project
- Devin: Learn where my skill set fits into the bigger picture of plastics waste recycling
- Project Goal: “All plastic should be treated as a resource”. Our goal is to reduce plastic waste and elevate the livelihoods of those affected by the plastic waste crisis.
- Metrics for Success
- Tons of plastic locked up into new, higher value products
- “Livelihoods Elevated” through employment numbers
Roles
- Who is responsible for which deliverables?
- We divide work based on a combination of skill sets and interests. The more administrative work is divided evenly. For example, Devin and Rob will make and present the first presentation while Andy and Ellie will make and present the final presentation.
- Which deliverables require collaboration, subgroups and individual work? Who does each person depend on to succeed?
- Machine testing, breaking and repairing is a team effort. That being said, Andy and Ellie are in charge of pushing that front of the project. Rob and Devin are more concentrated on paper content development and article content development. We can not have paper content development without a better understanding of the limitations of our machines.
- Do we need a project manager to coordinate?
- Yes. We are not good at completing work without deadlines. We are not good at self-assigning deadlines.
Procedures
- Decision making process: consensus, majority, loudest, etc?
- The person who has the most energy and best argument is listened to the most. Sustaining that level of energy is incredibly difficult, making many decisions a default to the most logical conclusion.
- Focus on key timely discussions versus updates
- This is a conversation that we need to have. Key timely discussions seem to happen every week, which makes separating the most important insights from the filler insights quite difficult. Updates are necessary to sustain forward-moving improvement.
- Meeting roles: scribe, facilitator, time keeper, etc.
- Rob/Devin: Scribes
- Andy/Ellie: Facilitators
- Communication
- Frequency, Time. Location:
- Once a week at 4 pm in Wilbur Power House
- Daily on Slack
- Type of technology: Slack
- Expectations for responsiveness: within a 24 hour window
- Frequency, Time. Location:
Relationships
- What is the diversity of the team?
- College of Business, College of Engineering and College of Arts and Science students are represented on this team.
- Team name
- PlasTech Solutions