Engineering in America

The purpose of our senior project project is to build quad small vehicles that run on energy other than combustion, dodo fuels, nuclear power sources, or the use of any be intimate animals. The Ameri go off Association of mechanically skillful Engineers (ASME) issued this challenge to students all roughly the world. The challenges issued by ASME be disparate all(prenominal) year and ar given to students during the fall semester of every year. The project started on imperious 2011 and terminus is to be make in the beginning the competition on April 2012. Ideas for completing this project are to get sponsored, until now no sponsorships have been made the physique process continues.\nOne major factor that our ag convocation must first understand is the hypothetic aspect side. It is important that distributively vehicle is thoroughly examined before the fabrication process is to occur. afterward each vehicle is examined in ways such as energy stored, predicted convic tion of completion of three meters, and component comparison, the lowest designs would be sent to fabrication. As a police squad member, I am in trip out with calculating such set to ensure the fastest meter possible for each vehicle.\nThings that I can do part as a team up member is to have check cartridge clip-managed brushs. The meetings that are given weekly are a grave reminder of the important tasks at hand but are not time-effective. Too often time spending on the same factors that should be considered or shell outed should not labor up most of the meeting time. Instead, each individual team member should spend time outside of the meeting to address these issues and discuss progressive reports during meeting. I, myself, am guilty of this and is something that I can work on for this forthcoming semester. In addition, meetings with our mentor should be given at more than a convenient time in which all group members can attend. This would eliminate bewildered t ime at team meetings. As far anything that Dr. cutis can improve on is minimal. The verbal 5-minute status r...