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In the article, “Drone truck startup Einride unveils new driverless vehicles for autonomous freight hauling” written by Hawkins (2020), a Swedish truck company, Einride, has produced a new vehicle that aims to deliver goods in bulk. The company has been producing appealing and unique vehicle models since 2016 such as “Cab-less pods” for a German logistics company as well as the “T-log” for transporting large amounts of huge tree logs in 2017. The new “Autonomous Electric Transport (AET)” vehicles have a minimalist, sleek design and are similar to its predecessors of being “cab-less”. There are different versions of AETs with each type designed to “suit different operational domains or conditions”. Einride also does regular testing on the vehicles to ensure it can operate smoothly.  The article also shares the software that they are using for “completely driverless driving”. The company claims that the new AET would reduce transportation costs by more than half and reduce very high amou

Subject: Self-Introduction letter to professor Brad Blackstone.  Dear Professor Brad, My name is David and I am a student from your effective communication class. I hope you will get to know me more through this self-introduction letter. Before I started studying mechanical engineering at SIT, I took a diploma in chemical engineering in Singapore polytechnic in 2019. I did not enjoy the chemical industry-related modules that were part of the course as well as the internship which involved me working in a company at Jurong island. This led me to rethink what I wanted to study in the future. Throughout the polytechnic course, many mathematics and physics modules kept me interested, which was what I looked for when choosing the mechanical engineering degree. Furthermore, I was also interested to learn programming, which this degree also offered.  During my polytechnic days, many projects were assigned to us and many of them involved working in a team. This was where I found a communicatio

“I contend that we (engineers) are undervalued because of our widespread  inability to explain what we do to the general public (and why it is so important).  It is one of the hardest  goals  to accomplish, to be able to boil down difficult  concepts into a short and easily understood presentation or elevator pitch.” Marybeth Miceli, President, Miceli Infrastructure Consulting, USA (2011) The tasks taken by engineers are not well described which results in their jobs being overlooked by others. Describing the knowledge and labor that engineers go through and  utilize  in simple terms to others is not an easy task at all.