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With final exams chasing our heels, UAV Forge wraps it up for the year. Here are the last tasks the teams have completed and their goals for next quarter. The Propulsion team has nearly completed a prototype structure of the tilt rotor set up. They have confirmed that the tandem software for the tilt rotor controller is working, but the …
This week, we prepared for our senior design review. We attended the workshop held by the School of Engineering where we received feedback on our poster. The reviewers had a chart, ranking topics that needed to be on the poster by level of importance. The background, goals and innovation were the most important parts of the poster. We also spent …
This week, we took the cardboard design that we made last week and built a CAD model. Below is a picture of this model. In the picture attached to this blog post, there are a few major components captured. First, the lever; it is attached to the inside of the wheel and curved around the wheel with a handle protruding …
We decided to use cardboard to model the prototype, instead of going straight to a CAD model, because we felt that we would have more freedom to try new designs at any phase of our brainstorming session. CAD models limit the amount of change we can do to our design. The first change we made was to replace the bolt …
Leveraging the brainstorm session that we did with the different types of elements that we can potentially include in the device and our analysis of the free wheelchair, we used this week to think about how we want to implement these elements into a design. As mentioned in one of the blogs above, the wheelchair spooks are flimsy, there is …
This week, we began to brainstorm our solution with possible device elements. We came up with the following: one way rotating element, a brake, clutch (de-coupler) – direction change, height adjustment, and spring return. For the one-way ratchet, the pros of this device are that it expands the patient population and is simple to integrate into the design. The cons …
This week, we picked up and assembled the wheelchair from the Free Wheelchair Mission (FWM). We decided to use this wheelchair as our model for MPOWRD because of the organizations impact in serving over 91 countries around the world. First, we noticed the spooks of the tire were very flimsy. Furthermore, the center of the wheel had no attachment point …
Manufacture Team for Rocket Engine Development has completed the rocket stand., which could withstand 1000 lb of thrust from the rocket engine’s combustion. The challenge set by the Manufacturing Team was to build the stand from the CAD model made by Stand Team in Winter 2016, and to machine the rocket. We are manufacturing the stand by cutting, welding, drilling …
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 …
For our model, we have found articles that relate health benefit costs to power plant emissions. We will use these numbers to estimate the health benefit savings that would result from a renewably powered data center. Also, we will use the amount of electricity that is generated from the system to determine what a reasonable levelized cost of electricity is. …
