This assignments tasked us with creating a 30-second sound track that could function as a “sonic warning” against an activity from either of our majors that would produce significant physical injury, professional harm, or public damage. Oh.. and we couldn’t use any human language (words) at all.

We chose to use my major – mechanical engineering – as it has more ways to get hurt (yay!). Then we tried to figure out kind of actions a mechanical engineer or technician could perform that would both have recognizable sounds and cause major injuries. We’re happy with the result. That poor guy though… well, we don’t talk about him anymore.

For this assignment, we composed a Wikipedia style entry about a topic relevant to this course. We were instructed to locate a Technical Communications textbook and check the index for interesting terms. Then we searched wikipedia for a subset of those terms that did not already have wikipedia entries. Out of those, we selected Compressed Writing as our topic.