Being showcased this week is the Design team of the Rocket Engine Development (RED) senior design project at UCI. While others are having fun on Friday nights, these great students meet up and spend the rest of the night talking about the wonders of rocket engine design. This quarter, the goal of RED is to create and finalize the design …
Rocket Engine Development has been showing significant progress at the halfway point of fall quarter. The goal at this stage in the project was to have a working computer engineered model that would have all the correct values to represent a working hybrid rocket engine. At this point we have achieved this goal. The design team has a final nozzle …
This week was all about overcoming major design problems and finalizing decisions. Our group had been told to set up our solar array in one location, while our fuel cell was on the opposite end of the building. One of our team members showed that the low voltage, high amperage DC current we were planning on using would suffer massive …
This week, we are trying to finish the EUROP Proposal and find further information. Here is the goal of our project: The primary purpose of this research project is to experimentally measure the efficiency of a PEM fuel cell under various conditions and its durability under accelerated stress testing (AST). We will measure the I-V curve (IR corrected) to assess …
This week, we are trying to find more information about the fuel cell. Here is the summary of the information. Due to the growing concerns on the depletion of petroleum-based energy resources and climate change, fuel cell technologies have received much attention in recent years owing to their high efficiencies and low emissions. Factors such as durability and cost still …
This past week we: Completed our UROP Grant Proposal Began reaching out to companies (Boeing, etc) Completed Design Review Requirements Began Theoretical Modeling Callum Lamb Solar Airplane
For the past weeks, we have been working hard to get our designs ready and researching for components for our project. The biggest challenge was to be able to have the structure rotate in two different axes and also have motors mounted. In addition, the structure is planned to test a variety of articles that can range from 2″ x …
For the past week, our Circular UAV project team 1) finished the proposal for UROP. 2) estimated the budget for our current design. 3) started the CAD model for the wind tunnel test. 4) calculated the power requirement with the basic performance metrics from the previous week. 5) met with Terry for process review and signed up for a peer …
Veni, vidi, vici Three words. One goal. The phrase means “I came, I saw, I conquered” and right now, we are in the process of seeing. Toy ideas are difficult to come by when you’re trying to incorporate every element of everybody’s childhood, when you’re trying to come up with the ideal concept, when you’re trying to make the perfect …
Our team had finalized a design for our project. The next step was to research materials to see just how feasible our design was. We split the research of materials between 3 individuals. One would look up piezoelectric materials, the other triboelectric and the last the circuitry needed. After we had each done our research of materials we had created …
