Full Scale Team

all teams gathered together and had a meeting with Dr. Furman to make sure that we all know what needs to be done before the semester ends.  Our team meet in the assigned courtroom for the Full-Scale Team. we organized the room, and labeled all track pieces, so we will know where to start when we come back in the Spring of 2020. 

Linked is our slides for viewing. Presentation #3

Today our team was working on the track in the assigned court-room that is our primary location for our Senior Year Project. Neeraj was finishing the 3D design for uprights, and he started making his upright design out of wood. Nina was adding the extra holes needed for the water jetted wood piece, because we find out that we need more holes on our wooden part after we water jetted the piece. Johnathon was helping Nina and Neeraj for fabricating, and helping to finish the assigned work for that day.

Today was the Podcar City event and all the Spartan Superway teams had to meet at the events. As Dr. Furman requested, all teams presented at the event, but only one of the team members was presenting the project to the audience. Our team enjoyed the Podcar City event and all the presentations, since they all these presentations introduced piece of technology that we can use as an example to solve our issues and difficulty in Spartan Superway - 10m Track (Full Scale) team.

On October 30th, 2019 our team meet with Mr. Bill James . For the first half of the class time, we review our project, then we shared our team's project process with Mr. Bill, Dr. Furman and Mr. Ron and they gave us their output. For the second half of the class time, all teams meet with Dr. Furman to get update and information about Podcar City event that is taking the place on October 6th, 2019. We find out that Spartan Superway has been invited to that event, and all teams have to present their project on behalf of the SJSU-Spartan Superway.

Today consisted of our 2nd presentation. This can be found at the following link. Full Scale Presentation #2

In today's session, we first started out by going to a seminar put on by Dr. Furman regarding cell phones, and how infatuated our society is with a cell phone. After learning interesting facts (such as there are more active call phones then people) we went too our respective sections. We met in our little team and broke off, one member was doing some cad drawings, while the other two were getting our presentation ready for next week. In addition, we derived a free body diagram on the prototype of our track design to then scale and have a design specification to design with.

Today, the team revised their design presentation and decided on creating a prototype of the upright in cardboard. Numerical design specifications, a link between the design and social impact was added to the presentation. Also, the amount of bullet points on the social impact was reduced. Mr. Furman helped with giving advice on the preliminary design on the upright. The final decision was that water jetting of the wooden boards will continue, and the cardboard upright will be created next class. Preliminary upright design

Since we had to meet with ASME at SJSU to water jet our parts last week, therefore, our team missed the presentation day. We had to present today (10/02/2019) and we were the only team presenting. All other teams were discussing their project with their team members and with Dr. Furman. Towards the middle of our class time we had our presentation, and then answered questions about our project. We had to talk with Dr. Furman to make sure that we have a clear understanding of our project. Based on our conversation we are going to work on our presentation slides to add the missing information.

Our team met at ENGR-188 room to work on water jetting our parts. We met with ASME student who taught us on how to use the computer system for water jetting. He showed us how to install our CAD drawing and water jet our part from the CAD drawing. Ron joined us towards the end of the class time. We were able to water jet 4 pieces of our 10m track from 2 solid rectangle cutout tile pieces. 

At the beginning of the class time, our team gathered together to discuss the 10m track design. We talked to Jacques, and he explained his design. We discussed how we should improve the track design since he had some of the design done. Towards the end of the class time, Ron introduced us to a new member of our team. Carlos is a Mechatronic (ME-106) student who is going to help our team with electronic parts of the project. Johnathon, Neeraj, and Ninebra (Nina) are in charge of mechanical design and Carlos is in charge of mechatronics.

Our team was working on the full-scale project to figure out to start a new design or follow up the current design from last year group. Dr. Furman then assigned our group to a new project (10m track) as our new full-scale project. we met with Bill James and Jacques Ango to receive data and information of bogie and its 10m track. Bill James has been working with the bogie and its track, and he explained how the bogie has to be attached to the track. Jacques Ango has been designing the track for bogie, and he shared with us on how to design our 10m track that will meet the requirements.

          Originally, we were going to be working on a Full scale switching mechanism as worked on by a group last year. We went through the old project extensively. After evaluating the project, we went through the bundles of wire and did our best to track down what was going on. We instituted the help of a multi-meter, and from there we were able to track down live/dead wires. After about an hour of tracking things down and flipping switches we were unable to get get power to the bogie.           Furthermore, in courtroom 2, there lies a full scale track piece. The backstory goes, there used to be a massive near full scale track, but Superway lost the building space, and so pieces of the track were cut down and spread throughout the building. The track piece is very dilapidated will the steel structures showing lots of surface rust. To our knowledge the previous group was never able to get their project working.

Pardon our delay, we have been dealing with logistic issues involving our blog. We will add entries we missed.  Project Proposal Title: Full-scale Spartan Super Speedway Track Team Industry Sponsor: Spartan Super Speedway Team Address: 115 Terrance Street Contact (i.e., manager name, email, Phone#, address): N/A Faculty Advisor:   Burford Furman     408-924-3817      burford.furman@sjsu.edu Student Team Members (name, phone#, email,)  Jonathan Lagasca (510)-329-2743 jonathan.lagasca@sjsu.edu Neeraj Lal (831)-272-9242 lalhneeraj@gmail.com Ninebra B (209)-620-5060 ninebrab89@gmail.com Project Objectives: Design and manufacture a 10 m diameter scaled guideway that incorporates the JPods bogie. Adapt a bogey that will be supplied by Jpods (Bill James) to operate on the track Guideway design to follow on from design started by Jacques Ango (Superway Intern Summer 2019) Guideway must supp...