Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2015-2016”
After Week 7, our main designs for the structure has been finalized. We are also finalizing our list of purchases, so we can start getting things purchased. Our initial projections were estimated to be about $15,000; however, after talking to AFRL, they will be able to help provide some materials and electronics that will help us reduce the costs of …
After many long nights of design work, Savage is finally coming together! It was tough for the team to strike a balance while juggling midterms, designing the new car, fixing the old car, and of course living the oh-so-vibrant social lives us engineers live. However, seeing the first rendering of Savage made it all worth it and the team is …
Well, would you look at that! Raider is slowly but surely coming together. Most of the team has been swamped with hammering out their designs for the past few weeks and so it wasn’t until just today that we took a step back to see how things were coming together. While there’s obviously a lot that hasn’t been included the …
For the past week, our Circular UAV team 1) Reviewed our progress with peers and faculties. 2) Continued on the CAD model. 3) Worked on the poster for Fall Design Review. 4) Learned how to perform a flow simulation. 5) Planned out manufacturing techniques We will have the poster for Fall Design Review done by the following week. We will …
For the past week, our Circular UAV team 1)Started the CAD model 2)Prepared for the peer review presentation. 3)Fixed the power requirement and the motor size. We focused on calculation and studying for midterms this week. Next week, we are going to start the poster for Fall Design Review and have the peer review presentation.
By week six, we receive all of the necessary materials to create a working test model of our concept. We soldered wired to copper electrodes, then applied kapton on one electrode and Biaxially Oriented Polypropyleneon the other surface. Then we connected the wiring from the electrodes to a voltmeter and rubbed the surfaces of the electrodes together to create friction. …
By week 5 we determined the application for or design project. This technology is proposed to be incorporated into revolving doors that are used in public areas. As the door rotates, friction is generated between the edge of the door and the connecting surface. This application is advantageous because of two elements. 1) People will generate energy by not doing …
On Sunday, October 18th, the Epsilon team held a track day in order to test Electra’s primary systems. Electra’s brakes were tested to observe weight transfer under use, and the powertrain was given a thorough workup: the motor controller current output was tested under different temperature conditions to measure for response differences while stressed, the rolling resistance of the motors …
We successfully submitted our UROP proposal in hopes of obtaining funding for our project. Due to a roadblock in our project, we needed to meet with our professional engineer for some consulting on the project. Mr. Hack, our mechanical professional engineer, had a meeting with us on 11/4/2015, to discuss where the solar panels will be placed, recommendations on our …
We have been working hard finalizing our motors and fixing up our CADs to fit the motors and gears. We also have continued our analyzing our options of buying motors, as each motor averages about $3,000 due to being vacuum compatible. In addition, we have been analyzing the different gear boxes to see if we can purchase or create our …
