The counter project undertaken in the first semester was to engage in a collaborative cross-disciplinary government initiative called Greenhouse Challenge Plus. Our team consisted of myself and two other final year students from Engineering and Management courses. The goal of the team was to work with RMIT’s Property Services to provide a better solution for the RMIT computer labs. We took a triple bottom-line approach in an effort to give the most utilitarian outcome.
During this project I worked in some ways harder or at least in a more directly applicable way than I have had cause to in most previous projects. At the same, time we had to regularly hold meetings with industry professionals and eventually provide a solution that may become implemented at RMIT.
At the outset I was not aware of the value of this endeavour. By the end, however, it helped me realize that not only is a core value of what I am doing in the collaborative efforts but also the actuality of coming to new and exciting projects for no other reason than interest. With this realization I had found a key mantra for my second semester’s work: to initiate interesting projects and help people work on them from wherever they are, in an academic sense.
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