Hello dear readers, I am sad to say that this will be the last installment of EvapoGATOR’s weekly blog. However, I’m happy to say we achieved our goal of creating a brand-new, functional food vacuum evaporator for UF’s FSHN department!… Read More
Tag: vacuum evaporator
The Beginning of the End
Or the end of the beginning? Both could be argued. On the one hand, IPPD is almost over with our Final Design Review (FDR) presentations tomorrow (Tuesday, 4/25/23); however, on the other, the greatest journey comes after graduation, and IPPD… Read More
Hippity hoppity, FDR is on its way
Hello dear readers, EvapoGATOR hopes you all had a great holiday weekend! (Time check: Easter was yesterday, hence the title.) Your favorite IPPD team is still working vigorously to finish optimizing our system before the Final Design Review (FDR) on… Read More
Praying to the Heat Transfer Goddess
Hello everyone and welcome back to EvapoGATOR’s weekly diary… I mean, blog. First thing’s first, refer to the pictures to understand the title. EvapoGATOR had Prototype Inspection Day (PID) this week, and if I do say so myself, we killed… Read More
To Level or Not to Level?
Hello and welcome back, dear readers! First, the answer is to level, always. Second, EvapoGATOR feels refreshed after a nice break, and we dove right in this week! Recently, our team has been preparing for Prototype Inspection Day (PID) on… Read More
Prepping for QRB2
Hello all, and welcome back. It’s officially part 1 of midterms season, so we’re all enjoying that. Luckily, EvapoGATOR has been really productive, and we’ve accomplished a lot this week on top of exams and projects in our other classes.… Read More
Qualification Review Board 1 (QRB1)
Hello friends and welcome back to another update on EvapoGATOR! This week, we had the first presentation/check-in to review our progress this semester in the form of QRB1. Our team tried to include enough meaningful and relevant information to convince… Read More
The Week We Started Testing
Hello friends! We hope everyone has had a great week and is settling into the new year. EvapoGATOR has no time to ease into the new semester because we’ve been busy: For QRB1, our team will have a presentation exhibiting… Read More
Beginning of Spring Semester
Hello all, happy spring semester! This week, EvapoGATOR is getting back in the swing of things and planning the rest of our project. In class, we completed an assignment that: Our team’s biggest takeaway from this exercise was that we… Read More
SLDR Week
Hello lovely people, and happy finals! Just kidding, nobody is happy right now. Except for EvapoGATOR because we’re very proud of our SLDR presentation! This week, the team presented our solution to completely redesign and build a new vacuum evaporator… Read More
Prototype Inspection Week
Hello everyone, I’m happy to report that we successfully made it through Prototype Inspection Day (PID)! For PID, we showcased the progress of our vacuum evaporation project with a rough prototype of 3D-printed parts and CAD models. We labeled these… Read More
Preliminary Prototyping
Hello lovely people! This week, EvapoGATOR has started planning for the upcoming Prototype Inspection Day (PID). This activity includes all teams in the class compiling a rough prototype of their projects to display and receive feedback on. Our team is… Read More
Reviewing our Peers and their PDRs
Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us for yet another weekly update. This past week, we finished a rough draft of our Preliminary Design Report (PDR) presentation, and we practiced with our peers. It was very fun and eye-opening… Read More
Prepping for the PDR
Happy October, everyone! Our team has had a productive week with many exciting things happening as we prepare for this next phase of our project! EvapoGATOR members completed the Vacuum Evaporation lab on Friday 10/7 with our liaison, Dr. MacIntosh,… Read More
The Secret Schematic to Success
Hello, and happy fall! The EvapoGATORs are starting to feel a chill in the air as we continue working on our design project. This week, we were able to settle into our roles a bit more and get the ball… Read More
The Wonderful Week of Research
Hi everyone! EvapoGATORs here! This week, we’ve been working on fully understanding the scope of our project by beginning our research, meeting with our liaison, and determining our stakeholders and project design specifications. We were very excited to meet with… Read More
Welcome to the EvapoGATOR Blog!
Hello! The EvapoGATOR team would like to introduce ourselves: Emily Ford — 4th year Mechanical Engineering major Ryan Pytosh — 4th year Chemical Engineering major Alli Porras — 5th year Mechanical Engineering major We are very excited to start working… Read More