Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Project Learning”
This is the first week of creating content for the blog as we figure out the direction that we want to take. This year, the group has grown from five members to twelve members, and so in order to utilize our manpower effectively, we’ve decided to split our team into three subgroups and work on similar objectives and compare our …
This week, we looked at a different rehabilitation device, the wijit, that is currently available in the market and analyzed its strengths and weaknesses. The strength of this system is that a patient can steer the device with the levers; this is done by pushing one side up and down and leaving the other side alone. Furthermore, the breaking system …
Many patients recovering from a stroke, arthritis, cerebral palsy, or general deconditioning from long hospital stays suffer from loss of strength and the inability to independently move around. Thus, a Manual Patient Operated Wheelchair Rehabilitation Device helps patients rehabilitate and move independently in a wheelchair. By choosing to create the device that is fitted to the wheelchair used by the …
For our fuel cell cooling system, we have attached the hoses on the system. We plan to test the water circulation once our shipment of larger hose clamps comes in and we can safely be able to test it. For our MATLAB model, we have found data for the annual PM 2.5 emissions from power plants. PM 2.5 refers to …
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 …
Despite our setbacks, we’re now steadily making progress towards our finished product and it’s getting exciting. These past two weeks have been pretty busy for all of us on our team, but we’re managing to get our individual tasks done, and I can see the project coming together. On the electrical side of things, we’re finally branching away from our …
-Mike Crow has been working on our presentation for the Winter Design Review which we will present to the industry panel this March 11th. We have had steady progress on the photo voltaic cell circuit. We estimate to be finished by the end of this week if we continue with no interruptions. The Arduino code is being updated in order …
Our biggest accomplishment this week was that our team came in 5th place out of the 26 teams that participated for the winter peer review. Because we placed in the top 7, we were invited to present to industry representatives on March 11th. This quarter our team was more prepared due to the constructive criticism we received from the fall …
This week we prepared for the Quarterly Peer Review. It was very nice to have our advisor attend and support us as we presented. Mike did a great job putting together everyone’s presentation materials and leading the presentation. We sent out the purchase orders for some parts we needed to fix the cooling system, and we received them this week. …
This week we are continuing our MATLAB fuel cell model. This model will be able to tell us how much electricity the fuel cell can output depending on the higher heating value (HHV) of our fuel cell and a varying efficiency. This efficiency depends on changing temperature and desired power output. This is the base load for the data center. …
