First Presentation

Susana and I met on Saturday and worked on the presentation. I went over a few ideas with her about our project. For example, I purposed an idea of utilizing a standing display as a charging station with the ability to display metrics regarding the solar system. Also, I got her feedback about incorporating other real time data from other teams.

The presentation tomorrow coincides with our ME 147 midterm. Many of our teammates are taking that classes. I feel that there should be better scheduling so that the focus can be more towards one class versus having to deciding and weighing the importance of each.

A Clear Mission Statement

I found a clearly stated mission on the main Spartan Superway blogger post. This mission statement defines what our team should accomplish and eliminates any uncertainties.

"This sub-team will be responsible for calculating the energy requirements to run a single podcar along the guideway for 24 hours. (This needs to be done in Excel so you can update calculations with additional podcars.) This sub-team will also develop a new, robust racking and mounting solution for the solar array that will include a solar tracking system to enhance the amount of sunlight that the solar array receives throughout the day. Lastly, this sub-team will improve upon the battery charging interface which is used to charges batteries that run the podcars."

SolidWorks

The team's agenda for this week is to have SolidWorks up and running on our computers. We have not been able to view prior year's design work. We were only able to view pictures extracted from SolidWorks.