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ME 470: Senior Design Project

This is a senior level requirement for all students in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. This site is currently being developed and it will contain information on this course and links to student project sites.

Information on this course is for the Spring 1998 offering. Last updated May 5, 1998.

Each design team is responsible for developing a web page to present their efforts. The following are links to these sites.

The Critical Design Review took place on Tuesday, April 7, 1998. The review team consisted of the following industry representatives.

The generous contribution of time and valuable comments made by each of the reviewers is greatly appreciated by the entire class.

The following are some "highlights" of the day's presentations.

All of the out-sourced and in-house fabricated parts were to be displayed on April 16, 1998. Five days until the prototypes are to be completed.

Monkey Business ----

K's Posse ----

Hope Engineering ----

GFKAD ----

Team IRISH ----

The prototypes begin to take form.

Monkey Business ----

K's Posse ----

GFKAD ----

Team IRISH ----

Benchtesting to evaluate storage and assembly characteristics.

Monkey Business ----

K's Posse ----

Hope Engineering ----

Team IRISH ---- The following illustrated the packaging and deployment and the stages of engagment with the contaiment resevoir and the generation site.

Unfortunately, due to a "problem" with the digital camera (or the camera-person) most of the photographs taken during the FTS demonstration were lost. It may have been related to the excessive static electricity encountered on the Loftus surface which also created significant problems for the electronic systems on a number of the vehicles. Another valuable lesson learned.