February

Date: 2/1/17 Time: 9:35 AM  Lab All members present

  • Objective: The team’s objective was to individually brainstorm and draw possible designs that could increase the efficiency of the AEV. Then as a group, discuss each individual’s design and create one design as a group.
    • Tasks completed
      • Individual designs – all
      • Partial agreed upon design(turbine placement) – all
    • Tasks to be completed
      • Agreed upon aerodynamic design – all
      • Complete progress report week 4- all
  • Decisions
    • The group decided upon a propellor design where there would be one pulling and one pushing to create high air speeds
    • Decided to meet up on the weekend to begin work on progress report week 4 and discuss the AEV’s design

Date:2/3/17 Time: 2:00 PM  Outside meeting    All members present

  • Objective: The team’s objective for this meeting was to finish the lab 02 progress report calculations. This included equally dividing the work and meeting to discuss how the assignment should be approached.
    • Tasks completed
      • Backwards looking summary
      • Forwards looking summary
      • Appendices
  • Decisions
    • The group decided by consensus to meet at thompson library to on sunday the 5th before the super bowl to complete progress report 03
  • Reflections on previous assignment
    • The team had some trouble in Lab 02 testing the arduino because the motors were coded to run the wrong way resulting in an accidental pull propulsion system.

Date: 2/5/17 Time: 3 PM    Outside meeting  Missing Sam

Note – Sam was asleep when the meeting time was decided an hour before the team meet

  • Objective: The team worked on updating the project portfolio, and chose a team name. The team also split up parts for the progress report and began work upon it. It also included discussing the design of the AEV and how it should be constructed. 
    • Decided upon a team name – missing sam
    • Split up parts for team members – all
    • Discussed more AEV design components(no final decisions made) – missing sam
    • Updated Project Portfolio – all
    • Price the design parts
    • Finish progress report week 4
    • Tasks completed
    • Tasks to be completed 
  • Decisions
    • Decided to meet up during the week to price out drawings and dimension them correctly and to complete the lab report

Date: 2/7/17 Time: 5 pm    Outside meeting     All members present

  • Objective: the individual designs for the AEV needed to be priced and dimensioned before they were photographed and added into the progress report. 
    • Dimensioned drawings – all
    • Priced individual components – all
    • Progress report – all
    • Construct new design for the AEV
    • Tasks completed
    • Tasks to be completed
  • Decisions
    • Decided to use sample AEV design for lab 4, because 3D-printer parts are needed to complete design.

Date: 2/8/17 Time: 9:35 AM  Lab All members present

  • Objective: The team’s objective this week was to run the Aev on the track and take data using a matlab application. The team then is to analyze the data.
    • Tasks completed
      • Data recorded – all
    • Tasks to be completed
      • Calculations to be done – all
      • Analysis to be done- all
  • Decisions
    • Decided to meet up on the weekend to begin work on progress report week 5

Date: 2/12/17 Time: 12:30 PM    Outside meeting  all

  • Objective: The team worked on completing the next progress  report
    • Tasks completed
      • Calculations -all
      • Graphs -all
    • Tasks to be completed 
      • Situations – matt & sam
      • Analysis – kenny
      • Weekly goals and meeting notes – caleb
  • Decisions
    • The group decided which parts of the progress report each member would be responsible for

Date: 2/15/17 Time: 9:35 AM  Lab All members present

  • Objective: The team’s objective this week was to test out different AEV designs to determine which aspects of each design was advantageous
    • Tasks completed
      • 4 designs created and tested – all
    • Tasks to be completed
      • Calculations to be done – all
      • Analysis to be done- all
  • Decisions
    • Decided to meet up on the weekend to begin work on progress report week 6 and begin design parts to be 3D printed

Date: 2/19/17 Time: 12:30 PM    Outside Meeting  Kenny, Sam, Caleb

  • Objective: The team worked on designing 3D parts and the upcoming lab report
    • Tasks completed
      • 3D part design -all(matt had input later)
    • Tasks to be completed
      • Situations – matt & Kenny
      • Analysis – Caleb
      • Weekly goals and meeting notes – Sam
  • Decisions
    • The group decided which parts of the progress report each member would be responsible for and what future parts may be needed. Decided use of, and attachment of,  the servo needed to be redesigned.

Date: 2/22/17 Time: 12:30 PM    Lab  All Members

  • Objective: The team worked on planning out the future and checking how far we are compared to how far we expected as this is this half way checkpoint.
    • Tasks completed
      • created a design plan for the future – all members
    • Tasks to be completed 
      • finalize an AEV design- all members
  • Decisions
    • The group decided what their next step was in the design process. Designs will be tested against each other to determine the most efficient design.