Division H Meeting Notes

Meeting 1

Date: 01/12/17

Time: 11:10-12:30

Location: Hitchcock Hall 224

Objective:

  • Introduction to overall project and check materials

Tasks completed:

  • Checklist for AEV project materials completed,
  • Student Responsibility and Safety Statement signed by all members,
  • Group contact was set up.
  • website created

Upcoming Tasks

  • Updated Website with contact info and meeting notes
  • Create website division H homepage
  • Define individual roles

Discussion:

  • What can be tested and manipulated in the overall AEV project was discussed. We discussed how the style of the AEV can be changed, how fast or slow the AEV should go, testing how much speed the motors provide, how weight would affect the AEV and much more.

 

Meeting 2

Date: Jan 18, 2018

Members present: All

Location: Drackett tower Lounge

Time: 10:30 PM

  • updated website with goals contact information and notes

Discussed

  • website update 1

Objective

  • Home page set up
  • enter meeting notes
  • mission concept review
  • determine roles for project

Lab 03

Date: January 26, 2018

Members present: All

Location: Hitchcock

Time: 11:10

Tasks

  • finish activity 1, 2, and 4
  • start discussing design of AEV
  • Sensors secured and tested
  • picture of sensors taken

 

Meeting 3

Date: January 30, 2018

Members Present: All

Location: Drackett First Floor

Time: 10:00-11:00

Discussed

  • website update number 2
  • completed activity 3

Objective

  • Agree on team design of AEV project
  • construct team AEV design

Tasks Completed

  • distributed weekly tasks and prepared for lab on friday

Upcoming Tasks

  • final design of AEV
  • lab 04

 

Meeting 4

Date: February 5, 2018

Members Present: All

Location: Drackett floor 8

Time: 10:00-11:30

Discussed

  • Progress Report 1

Objective

  • Complete progress report 1

Tasks Completed

  • Progress report 1

Upcoming Tasks

  • AEV body design F-117 Nighthawk style

 

Lab 05

Date: 02/09/18

Time: 11:10-12:30

Location: Hitchcock Hall 224

Members Present: All

Task Completed

  • Experiments testing Propellor configuration

Takeaways

  • Larger props do the same job faster and with less energy that the smaller propellors
  • The way the propellers face doesn’t much affect the performance
  • The propellers facing the same way results in the best performance

 

Meeting 5

Date: 02/15/18

Location: Drackett tower 8th Floor

Meeting time: 5:30

Members present: all

Objectives

  • Decided on jobs for Committee Meeting 1
  • Completed visuals for Grant proposal

Tasks Completed

  • Updated AEV design with new outer case and arduino placement
  • Decided on jobs for Committee Meeting 1
  • Completed visuals for Grant proposal

Upcoming schedule

  • Committee Meeting 1
  • Lab 06
  • Grant Proposal Presentation and Voting

 

Lab 06

Date: 02/17/18

Time: 11:10-12:30

Location: Hitchcock Hall 224

Members Present: All

Task Completed

  • Grant Proposal and committee meetings

Takeaways

  • our group was awarded third place in our class so we received a 50% grant
  • each member of our company is performing tasks on time and efficiently

 

Meeting 6

Date: Jan 18, 2018

Members present: Brad, Jacob

Location: Brads room

Time: 12:45 PM

Tasks Completed

Design AEV 117 body cover

Objective

  • Finished AEV design

 

Lab 07

Date: 02/24/18

Time: 11:10-12:30

Location: Hitchcock Hall 224

Members Present: All

Task Completed

  • motor configuration testing

Takeaways

  • both motors facing directly forward provided the most efficient thrust for our AEV
  • motors oriented straight up does not propel the vehicle forward

 

Meeting 7

Date: Feb. 28, 2018

Members present: All

Location: Drackett tower Floor 8

Time: 7:30 PM

Tasks Completed

  • updated website and Complete R and D oral presentation

Discussed

  • Website Update 3
  • R&D Oral Presentation

Objective

  • update website with current data and recent advanced research
  • enter meeting notes

Meeting 8

Date: March 7, 2018

Members present: all

Location: Drackett tower floor 8

Time: 8:00 – 10:00 pm

Discussed

  • Progress report number 2

Objective

  • Complete progress report number 2

Tasks Completed

  • Plan for upcoming tasks and complete progress report number 2

Upcoming tasks

  • Performance Test 1 – March 22
  • Progress Report 1 rewrite – March 23
  • CDR Draft – March 23

Meeting 9

Date: March 8, 2018

Members present: all

Location: Drackett tower floor 8

Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Discussed

  • Progress report number 2

Objective

  • Complete progress report number 2

Tasks Completed

  • Plan for upcoming tasks and complete progress report number 2

Upcoming tasks

  • Performance Test 1 – March 22
  • Progress Report 1 rewrite – March 23
  • CDR Draft – March 23
  • Lab Week 8

Lab 08

Date: 03/09/18

Time: 11:10-12:30

Location: Hitchcock Hall 224

Members Present: All

Task Completed

Takeaways

Lab 09

Date: 03/09-20-22/18

Time: 11:10-12:30

Location: Hitchcock Hall 224

Members Present: All

Task Completed

  • Performance test 1

Takeaways

  • Accurate programming of AEV to complete performance test 1

Meeting 10

Date: March 22, 2018

Members present: Jeremy, Jacob

Location: Drackett tower floor 12

Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Discussed

  • CDR draft

Objective

  • Complete CDR draft

Tasks Completed

  • Completed CDR draft

Upcoming tasks

  • Performance Test 2 – March 29
  • Committee meeting 2 – March 30

Lab 10

Date: 03/23/18

Time: 11:10-12:30

Location: Hitchcock Hall 224

Members Present: All

Task Completed

  • Performance test 2
  • Committee Meeting 2

Takeaways

  • The percentage of power the battery test greatly effects the performance of the AEV
  • Eventually a good run was produced.
  • Committee meeting 2 was a success

Upcoming Tasks

  • Progress Report 3
  • Final Performance Test
  • Final Oral presentation