I am a MEng Mechanical Engineering student at UCL.

My top 5 strengths are:

1.-Achiever

2.-Futuristic

3.-Communication

4.-Includer

5.-Positivity

I completely agree with the results of the strengths finder. I have always described myself as a communicative and positive person who likes to get things done and I believe this tool will become very useful when at the time of making teamwork easier and smoother.

One unique thing of myself is that I love to meet new people and know about their culture.

I expect to get a great experience from this course that will help me improve my teamwork and individual skills and I hope it can help me understand sustainability problems around the world better.   

The marks given to our team in the Design Review Meeting #1 for each item where very good, except for the Design Process where we had a lower mark. These marks surprised me as I didn't expect them to be so high and I am pleased our team is doing a great job.

The feedback my team received was quite encouraging as Dr Tiwari said our team MyPortfolio Page was one of the best of all USA Teams. Even though the good overall feedback, we also had some aspects to improve as it was to create an Introduction page and improve the grammar and vocabulary of our pages. 

So far the team is working perfectly fine. We had some organization problems at the beginning due to lack of communication but they were solved efficiently by the creation of groups in whatsapp, skype and the UCL email. In the present everyone has a clear task and responsibility on the team, fact that utterly improves the performance of the group.

The team project is coming out perfectly good. All the jobs have been achieved by the deadlines so far and with an outstanding result. The quality of the team members has helped to carry out a great  job so far and will probably help to deliver a great solution to our challenge.

The marks we got for our Design Meeting #2 where higher than the ones before and very promising. These marks surprised the team in a positive way again, and they gave us more motivation to keep working and put even more effort to reach the top mark which is our team's goal now.

The Feedback received from our academic leader was very good in overall and very motivating. However we were told we could put more effort into the presentations of our project, in order to attract and catch the viewer's attention. This has become now the team's first goal, in order to achieve the top mark we are pursuing.

Things in the team are working perfectly well, we have met all the deadlines and with good results. The improvements in organization and communication in the last week have helped to improve our efficiency as well. Now we need to put the maximum effort to end this project as good or even better than we have been doing so far.

Finally, our team project has been developed perfectly well. The teamwork and commitment has helped to achieve an outstanding result which now only needs to be polished and presented the best it can be.

The first thing I would like to say in my final reflection is I am very proud of my team and the work done by all of us during this project. The general outcome has been splendid and this is because the team has worked very hard to achieve it.

The group started with some communication problems. We did not know each other at all and this lead to communication difficulties at the start. Nevertheless these problems were solved quickly thanks to the effort of all the team members and the creation of chat groups.

During the project, the team went through most of the design cycle stages (we did not go through the manufacturing stages). First we defined the needs, and created a brief indicating the problem and our evaluation criteria. After that we started doing research, for me one of the most important parts as here we learned everything we needed to create the best solution. Once we had all the research we came up with a solution that met all our brief criteria and solved the challenge perfectly. This final stage was the most difficult one for me as we had to take into consideration several factors such as finance, feasibility and viability of the Designs proposed.

All this experience helped me to understand the high importance of the design process and how important is to know what your problem is and who are the target users is in order to come up with the best idea. I also learned not to underestimate the possible problems that may occur, as they can become really serious problems and can take us unaware, as what happened with our team video editing.

After this project I realized how important teamwork is. None of our job would have been done without proper teamwork and that showed me how a team of competent people can always achieve a better solution than an individual. In our team we achieved this through the use of communication and a great management of tasks based on the members’ strengths. This way we extracted the best of each member and that resulted in an excellent solution.

From my point of view the success of our team working together had a great impact in the outcome we achieved. As I already said none of what we achieved would have been done without a good team dynamic, and this is because a good team working dynamic helps improve and increase the efficiency of work. In my team most of the time when we had a new idea some team members would point out things that others did not see at first, and therefore improve the understanding of it.

During the time the project was ongoing, my team successfully used most of the professional skills learned in other modules such as brainstorming, having technical arguments and going through the design cycle. Also we made great use of our good relationship at the moment of helping each other with reviewing the different parts that were going into the group’s page or any problem we may have had. The implementation of all these tools and knowledge the team achieved the result it was looking for at the end.