Tasneem Ahmed

11/28/16
Electronics and energy
For most people, energy and electronics are practically the same thing. Energy is used to
power electronics; electronics help complete daily actions of for a variety of situations. Another
scenario would be using electronics to improve the efficiency or delivery of energy to the public.
However, I am using my knowledge of these engineering practices to accomplish tasks outside of
the engineering field. The implications of this include, but are not limited to, improving the
efficiency of small to large electronics in environmental research. To do this I would need
experience with electronics and computer science for which I will do my honors credits in. I will
also want to have background knowledge in the environmental/biological sciences as well as the
politics related to the environment. In order to prepare myself for these studies Honors 1000 will
provide background to the type of thinking I would approach with.
Fortunately, Honors 1000 has become a valuable resource for me, not because I was
exposed to the full history of Detroit, but because I had begun to understand the way cities
become more modern. We start off as crude, empty assortments or objects and individuals. As
modernity occurs, we evolve into productive, culture-inspired unions and nations. One particular
passport event that expressed my interest for HON 1000 is the Red Ford Theatre, where we
Modern Times starring Charlie Chaplin. This movie, set in the 1920s, showed the ways of seeing
a city and how immigrants had a new mindset when the industrial revolution had occurred. The
readings and lectures in this course gave me background to these ideas we were presented with,
such as the absence of an observer position within the racial conflicts with Jim Crow etiquette or
segregation.

The experience and knowledge from Honors 1000 will help me become a better engineer,
since I will know more about Detroit and how business or industry developed there. With the
context I have been given regarding how a city develops, I will be able to see myself in relation
to the way I see others. In my environmental research I will look for ways to appeal to people
and their perspectives or ways of seeing and therefore understand the expectations of the city.
Moreover, with my research and community service at Wayne State, I will be able to influence
the growth of cities with my perspective on electronics and the environment.