Who am I? Ultimately an optimist. An optimist about the future, and our place in it.
Having been this year's ME1 Academic Representative, I've been privy to discussions shaping our course's future: projects, research, and yes - computing. These ideas will be paramount to maintaining our edge and uniqueness to drive impact in the world.
From me, you can expect promotion of more hands-on making, problem-oriented projects, AI-integration into modules and research, and much more.
Working to ease the weekly timetabling skew so ME1/2s don't have a 9am-6pm Monday, and the same for ME3/4s on Fridays. Driving course-integrated hackathons. Implementing more dedicated spaces and machinery to ideate and build (think: 3D printers etc.). Bringing in more alumni and others to share their experiences (think: more Inspiration Lectures).
All things I'd wish to work on as one of your Departmental Academic Representatives.
I sincerely hope that you've seen the fruits of my action born from your queries this year. I'd love to scale that, bringing more thoughts from you, to the table - to drive upleveling across the board in MechEng.
If you don't want to see the course evolve with the times to maximise our learnings, employability, and developed skillset - then I'm not the candidate for you.
Otherwise, I'd love for your support in the form of a vote or a high five.
I truly appreciate any and all support.
Thanks always,
Krish