Fuel Cell Battery Week 6

vuan1 Project Learning

This is the first week of creating content for the blog as we figure out the direction that we want to take. This year, the group has grown from five members to twelve members, and so in order to utilize our manpower effectively, we’ve decided to split our team into three subgroups and work on similar objectives and compare our …

MPOWRD Fall Week 4: Current Market Solution Analysis (Wijit)

lawrence.hipolito Project Learning, 2016-2017 Manual Patient Operated Wheelchair Rehabilitation Device

This week, we looked at a different rehabilitation device, the wijit, that is currently available in the market and analyzed its strengths and weaknesses. The strength of this system is that a patient can steer the device with the levers; this is done by pushing one side up and down and leaving the other side alone. Furthermore, the breaking system …

MPOWRD Fall Week 3: Introduction to MPOWRD – Manual Patient Operated Wheelchair Rehabilitation Device

lawrence.hipolito Project Learning, 2016-2017 Manual Patient Operated Wheelchair Rehabilitation Device

Many patients recovering from a stroke, arthritis, cerebral palsy, or general deconditioning from long hospital stays suffer from loss of strength and the inability to independently move around. Thus, a Manual Patient Operated Wheelchair Rehabilitation Device helps patients rehabilitate and move independently in a wheelchair. By choosing to create the device that is fitted to the wheelchair used by the …

Week 7 – Fuel Cell Data Center Blog

bismarcc 2015-2016, 2015-2016 Fuel Cell Data Center, Project Achievements, Project Learning

For our model, we can set a levelized cost of electricity to determine what our investment expenditures and operation & maintenance (O&M) costs will be. We are still looking into the health costs benefits associated with the reduction of carbon emissions. We cut some strut to make the base of the cooling loop. However, it seems that the blade of …

ioToys Week 5 and 6 Updates

ipareja 2015-2016 IoToys, Project Learning

Despite our setbacks, we’re now steadily making progress towards our finished product and it’s getting exciting. These past two weeks have been pretty busy for all of us on our team, but we’re managing to get our individual tasks done, and I can see the project coming together. On the electrical side of things, we’re finally branching away from our …

Week 7 – Fuel Cell Data Center Blog

gcobos 2015-2016, 2015-2016 Fuel Cell Data Center, Project Achievements, Project Learning

Our biggest accomplishment this week was that our team came in 5th place out of the 26 teams that participated for the winter peer review. Because we placed in the top 7, we were invited to present to industry representatives on March 11th. This quarter our team was more prepared due to the constructive criticism we received from the fall …

Week 6 – Fuel Cell Data Center Blog

gcobos 2015-2016, 2015-2016 Fuel Cell Data Center, Project Learning, Events, Project Achievements

This week we prepared for the Quarterly Peer Review. It was very nice to have our advisor attend and support us as we presented. Mike did a great job putting together everyone’s presentation materials and leading the presentation. We sent out the purchase orders for some parts we needed to fix the cooling system, and we received them this week. …