Have you ever been able to balance a pencil or some other thin rod perfectly on one end? What if I told you that I know how to program a servo motor to do this balancing act better than a human can? Over the fall semester I had the pleasure of participating in the ME355 Dynamic Systems Lab at Penn State Berks, a lab that applies the knowledge from the ME357 System Dynamics course to projects involving a Quanser servo motor setup and multiple attachments and tools. The lectures from the previous semester of ME357 covered tedious and unfamiliar topics like state space systems and PI controllers, and I honestly had put up a struggle to make sure I was actually awake and learning. Over the fall semester, however, using our book knowledge for these real-world projects started to pay off. To anyone, even a senior in engineering school like myself, a device that can do things like balance a rod can look like unexplained magic. The understanding of these amazing projects only comes after putting in tiring amounts of effort to understand the unfamiliar. Suddenly, you will find yourself able to explain and design things that you could originally only imagine.
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