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The software team has been working on redesigning the ground station application and adding functionality as needed to take the application from a prototype to a polished product stage. The students are working on the design of the buttons and the layout of the application adding some functionality that allows the user to customize the ground station layout according to …
The manufacturing and testing of the electrolyzer proved to be more problematic then we originally thought. We initially tried to fabricate a five plate design keeping in mind that surface area was our number one priority. We began the initial stages of system testing and quickly ran into design problems that we did not initially account for. Such Issues included …
This week the Tail Team of the Human Powered Airplane project worked on testing the deflection of the 26 foot tail boom and checking the movement of the rudder controls. We did this in order to get an idea of how the tail boom would react during flight and see if it could actually control the airplane. Using a force …
This week was all about finishing our testing. By the end of last week, we had mostly finished the water polo tests and so this week we focused on soccer. For soccer, we tested pressures of 5, 7, 8, 9, and 11 psi (the average is 8 psi). We launched these balls at each pressure at the Anthropomorphic Test Dummy …
The 2015 Winter Quarter Intergroup Peer Reviews were held on February 19th and 20th. Student teams presented their Senior Design Projects to an audience of their peers and were scored on a multitude of project performance requirements. The dynamic interactions during the questions and answers sections made these review sessions highly engaging and educational. Here’s Chris Jenkins from Advanced Combustion …
For the week of 2/23 – 2/27, we executed another compression check in order to compare it to the old results. The average compression in the cylinders this time around was 205 psi, while in the past test the mean was 220 psi. This drop in pressure is nothing to be worried about because we are still well within the …
For the week of 2/16-2/20, we were able to establish a connection between the reciprocating engine test bed and APEP’s local natural gas line. In order to accomplish this task, we had to connect a hose from the line source to the test bed and make sure that the natural gas flowed to the engine at 11 inches of water. …
UCI is the first UC campus to teach CFD to undergraduates using the well-known ANSYS software package. If you enjoyed fluid mechanics and heat transfer, MAE195 will provide you a very powerful design and analysis tool. This course is offered Spring 2015, and counts toward the Aerospace or Flow Physics specialization. For maximum benefit students should have received at least …
Quick FUN fact before I state what we did as a team for the week. Researchers in the UK lead by Nobel Laureate Andre Geim are working on a super thin, 1 atom thick size membrane made out of graphene which will extract hydrogen from the humid air. The membrane does not extract a large amount of hydrogen but since …
Of all the teams making up UGV, Beta team is the most hard-working, admirable, and good-looking of the bunch. Meet Adi Peesapati, fearless team leader. He works through day and night (okay, mostly day) to control the wildly creative bunch. Our goal for this quarter is to build a search and rescue plane that can not only fly for three …
