My most profound entrepreneurship story would definitely have to be last spring semester's attempt at leading a team in designing an autonomous solar panel array that would track the sun as it moved across the sky in order to optimize the output of a solar panel setup. This involved taking part in budgeting and cost analysis procedures regularly to measure team success on a monthly basis in order to make sure tasks/funds were allocated appropriately. In leading a team of engineers on the design and build portion of the autonomous solar panel project, I myself learned how to be more autonomous. Through enhancing my leadership skills, I learned a sense of accountability and integrity for the work as project milestones were completed. In fact, last years entrepreneurial outing served as a benchmark for future endeavors that I hope to pursue as I move forward in my professional career. Please find an image attached below of the tracking LiDAR scanner my team used to allow for the solar panel system tracking arm to orient itself.
I enrolled in ENT3003 in order to free myself up to explore the entrepreneurial fire that burns deep within me. I would like to learn more about how to conceive and incubate business ideas and equally keep up the passion to work through failures and learn valuable lessons from the various setbacks that are expected. So far, I have had a great time getting familiarized with the material in this class and am very much looking forward to reading more about how to grow my ever-growing affinity for entrepreneurial pursuits.
Hi Patrick,
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome idea! I never really considered the fact that solar panels could be optimized to best utiliize the power of the sun depending on its position in the sky at that particular time of day. This sounds like a great entrepreneurial idea that could be very lucrative if produced on a mass scale. The fact that you led the team and the project is very impressive. Awesome!