While continuing to make progress with the project, this week Gator Waves also prepared for the QRB1 event held on January 25th. Our team presented the project milestones that have already been accomplished, as well as detailed plans for completing the design. After the presentation and a Q&A with the committee, our team received helpful feedback regarding our progress and improvements that can be made to our slides. The team addressed this feedback in a response memo that was sent out to the committee on Thursday, detailing action items related to each concern that was raised.
The team also met with Dr. Subhash to discuss what was accomplished last week. Another meeting was held with Dr. van Oostrom to go over expectations for the QRB1 event and report on plans for the upcoming days. The mechanical engineers worked on water jetting striker rods and incident bars from the stock material and then facing them. They also wound two more solenoids for testing. The electrical engineers met on Friday to calculate the inductance of these solenoids for characterization and comparison. Moving into next week, the team plans to begin testing the incremental encoder, as well as finalize models of the final assembly.