Job Description
As a materials engineer, my job is to maintain the quality of the parts in our tank. This includes the filter, the sponge filter, and lights. Whenever a part is not functioning well, it is on me to make sure everything gets back to normal so our fish can swim happily!
Experiment Proposal:
To kick off the project, we were required to present our ideas and show the class what we would be doing to our fish tank. For my group, we were testing the stress levels of our fish when their environment is changed from natural to unnatural. Because of this, I created a Sketchup model displaying a before and after view of what our tank would look like during our changes. Along with a 3D model, I drafted a materials list naming all of the items that we needed to properly conduct our experiment. Our original plan was to change our fish tank into bikini bottom by adding in the buildings from Spongebob. Because we weren't able to purchase the Spongebob decoration, we had to improvise and find other decoration from Walmart to fill our tank. In the final version of our tank, we have added a dragon, a pagoda, a shipwreck, and a volcano!