Effective Communication

The article, ‘Introducing the Seabin Project’ (2018), talks about how, tired of ‘swimming in garbage’, Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski quit their jobs and started working on an ocean garbage collector prototype called Seabin. According to the article, plastic contributes to a significant amount of ocean pollution and Seabin may help reduce this. Seabin uses a motor to create a whirlpool which sucks garbage into a bag within the bin. Clean water is pumped back out. Oil absorbent pads clean the water of petroleum and detergents. The article also mentions that the bin needs to be placed carefully as, in ideal weather conditions, Seabin can only pull in garbage from a 2 to 6 mile radius. The article states that the team is trying different approaches to make Seabin more environmentally friendly, such as replacing it’s electric energy source with solar panels. With a dedicated team deployed to each Seabin location, strategic placement and long term collaborations with companies, Seabin may

Dear Professor Blackstone, My name is Christine Ratnam. I’m a student from class T6 and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic in 2020 with a diploma in digital and precision engineering, where I learned a wide range of basic engineering skills. Wishing to advance my studies further, I decided Mechanical Engineering was the next reasonable step. My interest in engineering stems from wanting to make the world a better place for people. This interest started when I learned about the myoelectric prosthetic hand, which learns to read signals from muscle contractions to move certain ways. I believe that by innovating and creating new commodities, we can help people, especially those with special needs, get through life more easily. When it comes to communication as a whole, I feel one of my strengths is my ability to write. In past classes, I was always able to do reasonably well when it came to writing assignments and I feel I

 “Employers identify communication as one of the basic competencies every graduate should have, asserting that the ability to communicate is valuable for obtaining employment and maintaining successful job performance.” - Sherwyn Morreale   I think this quote means that employers value communication as a skill necessary for both getting and keeping a job.