Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Project Learning”
Smitty, our all-knowing advisor, told us that custom exhaust systems are something he would only do with two guns to his head. However, it’s too late to save us – we’ve already started. The way the stock exhaust for our engine was routed would put the headers outside the envelope of the chassis, scraping against the ground when we drove. …
Our problem with centricity was that we had no feasible way to keep our wheel centric on the axis of rotation. Hub-centricity was not possible, as the hub hole had been cut away for “weight saving” purposes. Lug-centricity was out of the question, as a technical judge required us to obtain permission from the wheel manufacturer to countersink our lug …
A racecar’s wheels need to be mounted to hubs – in our case, there are five studs sticking out of the hubs that hold our wheel on with lugs. However, because there is some play between the holes in the wheel and the lugs, there needs to be a method of keeping the wheels from moving around on the hub; …
Our Suspension Doesn’t Work Too Well Let’s be honest: our team was hard pressed to reach our goal of a rolling chassis for the Winter Design Review last quarter – so hard pressed, in fact, that we achieved our goal at 2AM on the morning of the design review. When we finally hammered the last bolt through its stubborn hole, …
This week, adjustments were made to the Venturi flow meter design. The new calculated dimensions of the pipe can be seen in the Solidworks Drawing file. These dimensions were changed because of a modification to the flow calculations. Also, because the Venturi is going to be connected to the hose attached to the radiator, the flow meter needs to fit …
The SWEC (Sub-wet bulb evaporative chiller) is a unit that is used in our home to cool water through evaporative cooling. Water is cooled through evaporation when a phase change occurs and the water at the surface absorbs enough energy from its surroundings to become a gas instead of a liquid. That energy absorbed comes from the air and water …
Casa Del Sol is created to adapt to the Southern California weather, drawing its innovation from the California state flower, the golden poppy. Just like a live flower, Casa Del Sol can automatically open its windows as if it were alive. Window actuators assist in passive cooling where it can open when the temperature sensors have detected uncomfortable temperature levels …
Greetings mortals! You have stumbled upon the highly classified blog of the Wing Design Team Lead a.k.a. The Mad Queen. Reading further is clearly not for the faint hearted. You might accidentally stumble upon the answer to life itself in the depths of my thoughts. Be warned! At the start of this project, I had no idea how to design …
Solar thermal collectors collect free energy through individual pipe-shaped collectors that absorb heat from sunlight. The absorbed energy is transferred into heat in a transfer fluid, for our case water, which then flows through pipes and finally transfers the energy to usable water stored in a storage tank. The heated water can then be used for any hot water requirements …
For week four we began data collecting and shortly ran into problems with our electrolyzer system. At first the electrolyzer was not producing proportional amounts of hydrogen and oxygen that we theoretically predicted. We observed that the outlet nearest to the solution inlet produced the most amount of gas, regardless of how we connected the voltage polarities. So we again …
