Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Project Achievements”
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 …
Fabrication of the Prototype 2 Rockoon System will begin this week. The Prototype 2 is designed to elevate a 1 meter long rocket to an altitude of 20 km. Once this target altitude is reached, the Prototype 2 Rocket will be launched autonomously and both the Rocket and Rockoon System will return safely to the ground. Launching a sounding rocket …
Progress in the Exosuit is continuing the be made despite having midterms and reports due Weeks 5 and 6. We met with Professor Reinkensmeyer in order to touch base with our project and update him on our progress. We completed our UROP proposal and submitted it for approval. Having already completed our finalized budget previously, we learned how to fill …
The Android app development has been going on well for us. As shown in the picture, we have assembled the thermocouple kit along with a wireless transmitter. The probes on thermocouple measure temperature, and the wireless transmitter sends that data to smart phone wirelessly for further calculation of k and h. For app development, one person has been working closely …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
The Thermal Energy group is dedicated to design an efficient yet compact solar thermal energy storage (STES) system, and eventually create a prototype. Our research objective is to minimize the trade-off between renewable energy variations in order to expand the application of thermal energy storage beyond industrial utilization. Ultimately, our storage design will allow for all components to be scaled …
