Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2015-2016”
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 …
Our senior design project is an International Capston Design Project in which we hope to harness micro-meso scale energy using piezoelectric and triboelectric materials. This week we mainly focused on learning about the two technologies, how they work and what the benefits are of both. We discussed with our advisor on what the application would be before we started designing …
After seeing our last year’s car in competition last year, the SAE Baja team is designing Raider (our 2016 car) to be significantly different from its predecessor. The vehicle will be shorter by almost 20 inches and considerably lighter in an effort to achieve the agility that the competition series calls for. We’ve made good progress on our chassis in …
This blog will be an overall update to cover all the topics that would have been discussed in the previous blogs. Our team is in charge of the research, design, and implementation of renewable and sustainable energy resources to power a 6 kW data center. This is scaled to represent a 100 MW data center. Our faculty advisor, Dr. Jack …
On team HyperXite, we go beyond classroom learning and provide students with the skills of teamwork and manufacturing through designing, manufacturing and testing a product that has never been made before. We stretch the limits by providing students with the opportunity to communicate effectively the details of a component that does not exist yet and teach each other how each …
After researching what materials were needed, we showed our advisor what we planned to do with these materials. Our advisor approved the materials we had in mind and were purchased. In order to pick which materials we needed, we compared and contrasted the pros and cons of each material. Taking in consideration of the costs we purchased the materials which …
This week we discussed the goals and requirements of our project. Our advisor guided to us on what we needed to research and gave us some informative links. After that we presented what we had found to our advisor at the end of the week.
