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GM Food Poster

In birth, the final unit of the Food for Thought course, the assignment was to create a poster containing four panels that represented four periods in agricultural history as taught in the course — life, decay, death, and birth. The purpose of the assignment was to demonstrate our understanding of these four periods in history. Read More…

GM Restaurant Review

M,G (2013). In Decay, the second unit of the Food for Thought course, the assignment was to write a review of two different dishes — one that is homemade and one that is eaten at a restaurant. The purpose of the assignment was to determine whether there is a difference in taste between organically and Read More…

GM The Journey of the Banana

Hopson,Steve (2006). In Death, the second unit of the Food for Thought course, the assignment was to make a presentation that illustrates the distribution chain of a common food item such as Cocoa, Coffee, or bananas. We had to include five stops that the food makes before it reaches the consumer. For each step that Read More…

GM The Journey of the Potato

M,G (2013). In Life, the first unit of the Food for Thought course, the assignment was to write an autobiography on an ingredient in a family recipe. In the autobiography, we had to take the reader on the path from the food’s origin to the recipe. The purpose of the assignment was to connect our Read More…

GM Assessing the Exxon Valdez Disaster

M,G (2013). In Distribution, the last unit of the Fuel course, the assignment was to create a presentation that illustrated our assessment of an environmental disaster and recommendations as a design engineer. I chose to investigate the Exxon Valdez oil spill. There is a huge demand for oil around the world. It is transported thousands Read More…