Blog 7

Carl La Russa

North 10/2/14

Independent Component 1 Approval

1.) To complete 30 hours for my Independent Component, I plan visiting businesses and talking with professionals that work with my senior project topic. My mentor, Del Shindell has a long list of contacts that I can pull from if I need expertise in any one area of my topic. I also plan on dissecting the two different tracking units that my mentor uses along with delving deeper into how the units actually are able to extract information from a vehicle's computer and how that information is interpreted by a computer. Finally, I plan on studying the electronics of the tracking unit along with my neighbor Steve who is an electric engineer and have him help explain to me how each and every component of the units functions.

2.) Along with actually performing the 30 hours needed for my Independent Component, I  plan on setting up a digital scrapbook where I will have pictures of my activities along with descriptions of what I am doing in the pictures. My mentor will also allow me to borrow some of his tracking units to bring to school and show to people if needed.

3.) What I plan on doing will expand my knowledge greatly on my project topic because I will not only be learning about how the actually unit functions and behaves inside a vehicle, but I will be able to talk to professionals who have worked with these kinds of devices and gain valuable information from them that I might use for future assignments pertaining to the senior project.