Sunday, December 6, 2009

Final Paper Outline 473/474

COVER PAGE
Title, sponsor, student's names, supervisor,
TABLE OF CONTENT
Sections, page number
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
One page or less, problem, design, approach, results, conclusion
NOMENCLATURE
Optional
INTRODUCTION
Subtitles such as
-Project description
- Motivation
- Background (state-of-the-art)
- Literature search
PROBLEM STATEMENT AND OBJECTIVES
Subtitles such as
- Objectives
- Specifications and requirements for the customer
- Steps taken
- Time table and Gantt chart
DESIGN CONCEPTS
- Design 1,2,3,...
- Evaluation of the concepts the table
- The final design (the winner)
ANALYSIS OF DESIGN
Subsystem and subcomponents are defined global calculations
-Calculation and design of the each subsystem or subcomponent
-Solid modelings
-Finite element modeling and mesh generations, boundary conditions
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Results of the FEM and other analysis
Graphs and curves, charts, tables
Discussion of the results
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (Future work)
REFERENCES
APPENDIX

Saturday, December 5, 2009

December Finally

Presentation the 8th

Final paper the same week, hopefully.

Monday, November 16, 2009

20th Full(ish) Meeting

Nov.  10 & 12


Fire drill? Electrical short?

FEM and mesh done.
First draft of the report due Tuesday.


Two-part foam kind of cheap, still look for a free sample to test.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

15th & 16th Meeting

 For Oct. 27 & 29:

Attempted to run a load/stress simulation using Solidworks 2009.

Meeting to finish prototype was scheduled for Oct. 31.

Presentation was outlined.

  1. What is a Mini-Baja?
  2. What are the major components we must deal with?
  3. What is the competition about?
  4. What have research and and past designs revealed?
  5. What were our inital concepts?
  6. Why did we chose our current designs?
  7. Gantt Chart showing our production goals?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

14 Ful(ish) Meeting

Did two more pieces of model, we need more PVC pipe.

More talk about design.