M&M3

Hmm.

Today's tenure in NYP was largely taken up by our Materials & Manufacturing (M&M) presentation. In groups of three and two, each group had to work on the selection of a certain product which had 'Design For Manufacturability', or DFM.

Our lecturer, Mr Phua Tian Soon, is a nice guy, but his monotonous voice and dead-pan lectures make me fall asleep by the time we get to lecture notes pg 3. As such, I find his lectures just a verbal replica of the notes.

We had a little over 10 weeks to work this whole thing out, but it was eventually rushed out in roughly three weeks, due to time constraints and the fact that we were all bogged down by all sorts of tests, project datelines and afternoons sitting in front of the damn computer waiting for our 3D models to appear slick and polished.

So we all had a turn presenting our stuff, and Mr Phua surprised us all by shooting down one presenter after another, and I have nothing much to say except that some of my classmates deserved to be shot down when they included tough terms to fathom and they themselves have no idea what the heck they are presenting.

I was partnered with Chu Leong, and thankfully, the both of us are somewhat skilled in the art of improvisation (I'm not bluffing.. ask people around me). So when it was our turn to present, we managed Mr Phua's sniper-shot questions with relative ease, thoguh I have to admit, some of his questions were rather tough, and they were meant to test our weak spots.

Eventually, Mr Phua shocked us all when he declared that if he were to mark our presentations by the book, a whole 3 quarters of the class would fail. He also mentioned that he was disappointed that we took his module lightly, and it would be unwise to do so.

Now, being the type of lecturer who slacks off, marks our papers at the last minute, not even going through tutorials most of the time, and cancelling most of our lessons last-minute... that's rather rich of him to criticise our class for not taking him seriously.

However, some of my classmates do deserve their fair share of credit, because a lot of them did the required research, but (it is only fair to say that) some did not do enough preparation for the presentation.

Anyhow, I have a sinking feeling that Chu Leong and myself are the ones who are safely within that 'non-failing zone': simply because we weren't shot down, for one thing... and secondly, Mr Phua did not criticise our presentation at all. Not trying to be smug or anything, but just hoping and praying we will manage to scrounge a good pass or at least a B.

I've still got my Comm Skills test on monday, graphics big presentation on tuesday, big report to hand up on thursday, and M&M final test following monday. I'll be working on those then.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy