H2Flow created a short video to show off our project! It details background information, the problem, our solution, and how it helps our customer, Duke Energy. Thank you for watching and following along on our journey! We completed the year… Read More
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Practice Makes Perfect!
In preparation for the FDR event on Tuesday, April 25th, our team has a lot of practices scheduled. This week in class, we presented in front of our coach and our peers to receive feedback. Most of the feedback involved… Read More
Final Design Review in High Gear
This week we are referencing, compiling, and writing like crazy for the final volumes of our design report, including a video about the project. The first volume will be an overview of all that we have done this year. The… Read More
In the Home Stretch
Just two weeks until our Final Design Review!! With that said, our team is putting all the final touches on our product and is shifting towards documentation for the FDR. For this final presentation the team will: We are all… Read More
System Design Finalization
This week the team presented our nearing completion dashboard designs as well as the application to clean the chemical data. We received glowing reviews from all the people we presented to. It was very rewarding to be able to feel… Read More
Visuals, Apps, and Manuals, Oh My!
This week our team divided and conquered our work to progress closer towards tying up our loose strings. We are dedicated to provide Duke Energy with an all encompassing product before we hand it off to them to integrate into… Read More
Nearing the Finish Line
Our team completed our third design iteration by meeting our project sponsors at the site and going through both dashboards with them. They are our main users so it is very valuable to receive their feedback and thoughts. They are… Read More
All Work AND Play
H2Flow enjoyed doing some of their weekly work together outside in the nice weather. We have enjoyed getting to bond together even more in our second semester working together. The team has been putting in tons of work to track… Read More
Iterative Testing: Usability Questionnaire
We had our first customer review of our quality and cost dashboards. They both are fully incorporated with the data from the site and equations for calculations were added. We have completed lots of progress in data manipulations, projection building,… Read More
TWO Dashboards!
This week we are making leaps and bounds in progress on the dashboards in PowerBI. After getting over a road block with the data not aggregating properly, we were able to complete the rest of the quality dashboard. The best… Read More
The Sauce is Cooking!
Our team received good feedback after presenting about the progress of our project and our future plans to the Quality Review Board. They advised us to be specific about the milestones we need to be reaching; including answering the questions… Read More
We’ve got the Power BI
Starting out this week we have big news… We all have received access to the Microsoft program Power BI. This is the foundation of our dashboard as it is compatible with Duke’s information platform and will have the capability to… Read More
Getting the Ball Rolling!
In the classroom, we went over the upcoming events that IPPD holds in the spring and the assignments that correlate. This semester we are given the freedom to really dive into our individual projects with allocated class time devoted to… Read More
Welcome Back!!
The team took a relaxing holiday break: Kendall enjoyed seeing her older brother, Nicole spent time with friends and family, Julian ate a lot of good food, and Grace relaxed on the beach. We are well-rested and ready to get… Read More
Week 13 – End of the Year!
Team H2Flow has had the best semester in IPPD working with Duke Energy to implement a quality and cost analysis dashboard to their system process. We have learned a lot about the effects of water quality, chemical balances, and corporate… Read More
Week 12 – System Level Design Review
This week the team is going full speed towards the end of the semester, wrapping up work on our project design. We presented our system level design review to three groups on Tuesday: Flyby, Composite Guardian, and Chemboard. It is… Read More
Week 9 -Data Cleaning
After a fun day spent at the co-generation plant last week, we now have our hands on lots and lots of data. This data was pulled from their Pi points, which is connected to sensors that track key performance indicators.… Read More
Week 8 – Dashboard Designing
We are diving nose first into the iterative design process for the development of our efficiency dashboard with one main thing in mind: the customer. This week the team went into the co-generation plant, ate a nice breakfast as a… Read More
Week 7 – Preliminary Design Report
This week we were quite excited to present our Preliminary Design Report to our liaisons at Duke Energy with a couple of additional guests as well. We received great engagement and discussion that will help propel us into the prototype… Read More
Week 6 – Three Site Visits
This week we visited three sites to get a better understanding of the entire water flow process: Duke Energy Co-generation Plant Rabon Chilled Water Plant UF Wastewater Treatment Plant On Monday, the team went to the Co-generation plant to sit… Read More
Week 5 – First Month
Gainesville as a whole was thankfully not impacted too badly by Hurricane Ian. The Duke plant specifically saw minimal repercussions from the storm’s impact. Our coach went to Fort Meyers this week to help with hurricane relief down there. Our… Read More
Week 4 – Hurricane Ian
Last week, our team attended a Lean Six Sigma White Belt Training seminar. We learned about streamlining processes, asking “why” to get to the root cause of a problem, and that quality is an important factor among others. We did… Read More
Week 2 – Understand Scope
This week we met with our liaisons and coach to introduce the team to each other as well as gain clarity on the scope of the project. We had a lot of our questions answered, set up a weekly meeting… Read More
Week 1 – Meet the team
Hello all! We are Julian, Kendall, Grace, and Nicole. Our team consists of two mechanical engineers, one industrial engineer, and one chemical engineer. This week we had lots of ‘firsts’: First team meeting Understanding our scope of work Beginning background… Read More