March

Meeting #9

Date: 2 March 2019

Time: 3:00 pm

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today our primary objective was to agree on a final design and finish constructing our AEV.

Upcoming Tasks:

Our AEV design has been finalized save the battery placement.  We will continue Advanced R&D testing in our next meeting.

Meeting #10

Date: 4 March 2019

Time: 3:00 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Our objective today is to begin Advanced R&D testing and possibly finish the first of two aR&D studies.  We also have to finalize the battery placement of the AEV.

Upcoming Tasks:

We were able to mostly complete our first aR&D test – weight distibution.  For our next meeting, we will wrap up the first aR&D study and begin the second one.

Meeting #11

Date: 6 March 2019

Time: 3:00 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today we will finalize the first aR&D test, begin the second and try to make significant progress in the second.

Upcoming Tasks:

We will need to finish our current Advanced R&D studies soon and then begin preparing for the first performance test.

Meeting #12

Date: 7 March 2019

Time: 3:55 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today we will attempt to finish our Advanced R&D 1 studies and begin preparing the AEV for the first performance test.

Upcoming Tasks:

We completed the Advanced R&D studies today and began to look at the requirements for the first performance test.  After spring break we will focus on meeting the requirements for the performance test.

Meeting #13

Date: 18 March 2019

Time: 3:00 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today we will continue testing our AEV on the track and preparing for Performance Test 1.  We will also begin to put together our second progress report.

Upcoming Tasks:

We were able to complete Performance Test 1 early, and the second progress report was mostly completed in class as well.  Between now and our next meeting on Wednesday, March 20, we will put the finishing touches our our progress report in our own time.  At our next meeting, we will prepare for our upcoming oral presentation and begin to prepare the AEV for the second performance test.

Meeting #14

Date: 20 March 2019

Time: 3:00 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today our primary objective is to prepare our Advanced R&D presentation, which is tomorrow.

Upcoming Tasks:

We have largely finished the slides for our presentation; the next step is to mentally prepare for our presentation tomorrow and to come well dressed.  Other upcoming tasks, which include the second performance test and the CDR draft, will be addressed after tomorrow’s presentation.

Meeting #15

Date: 21 March 2019

Time: 3:55 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today we will conduct our Advanced R&D presentation and listen to the presentations of five other groups.

Upcoming Tasks:

The presentations were successful and took virtually all of the class time. The second performance test and the CDR draft are due next week; we will begin work on those on Monday.

Meeting #16

Date: 25 March 2019

Time: 3:00 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

After our exam, we will begin coding the AEV for the second performance test.  We will also begin work on the CDR Draft.

Upcoming Tasks:

We did not make much progress on the code for the second performance test because the code from the first performance test no longer worked.  We will have to complete the code at a rapid pace on Wednesday.

Meeting #17

Date: 27 March 2019

Time: 3:00 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today we will finish coding for the second performance test and complete the bulk of the CDR draft.

Upcoming Tasks:

We were not able to successfully complete the performance test due to many complications with the code as well as the AEV not running properly; we will complete the test late on Thursday or Monday.  We have completed extensive portions of the CDR draft, and we will finish parts of it up individually tonight and tomorrow before class.  We also have a committee meeting tomorow that we must dress up for.

Meeting #18

Date: 28 March 2019

Time: 3:55 pm (in class)

Members Present: All

Objectives:

Today we will finish our second performance test and participate in our second set of committee meetings with other members of the company.  Once these are done, we will begin our third advanced R&D study.

Upcoming Tasks:

We were unsuccessful with our second performance test; the AEV was inconsistent in its performance and would not connect to the load.  We will begin aR&D 3 next meeting.