This past week, the team participated in the IPPD System Level Design Review Event! All of the IPPD students, faculty, coaches, and liaison engineers were in attendance. The team’s faculty coach, Shuo Wang, along with two of NextEra’s liaison engineers,… Read More

Coming back from the Thanksgiving break, the team got back into the grind for the final report and presentation of the semester! Important decisions had to be made before the end of the semester and the start of physical prototyping.… Read More

The Prototype Inspection Day (PID) offered an enlightening opportunity to step back, witness for ourselves, and share with our peers and judges all that has been accomplished since Week 1. Going into PID our primary focus was on the physical… Read More

Preparations are underway for Prototype Inspection Day! So much discussion has taken place in the past weeks with our liaisons, coach, and among the team about how best to utilize this time to present our design clearly and to ask… Read More

After having fully recovered from the tolls of traveling, and addressing the feedback provided during our PDR presentation, we shifted our sights to the next goal: Prototype Inspection Day! Prototype Inspection Day is a way for teams to present their… Read More

This will be a short update, but we are so excited to tell you about it! On Monday night, we traveled halfway across the state to Juno Beach, FL, home to NextEra’s main headquarters. On Tuesday morning, we traveled to… Read More

This week, we got to tackle one of our biggest IPPD milestones so far: the Preliminary Design Review! We spent the entire week carefully perfecting our PDR presentation and report. On Tuesday during class, we spent the day presenting our… Read More

It’s good to be back! After our delays with hurricane Ian, we all returned to campus on Monday to resume work with our team. Since many of us were working remote even through our evacuation, we dedicated Monday to compiling… Read More

As you may well know, Hurricane Ian hit the west coast of Florida and came across the state. Classes were cancelled and team members went home in preparation for the coming storm. Some members evacuated their families in anticipation of… Read More

Phew, what a week! Since last time, our team worked diligently on potential ideas for the heart of the ROCC-in-a-box project. So many ideas were thrown around when it came to the most basic of details. Every team member contributed… Read More

We are happy to report the team has been hard at work! We started the week off with a jam-packed session of coach, liaison, and team meetings, and followed up with another team meeting towards the end of the week.… Read More

Hello world! We are happy to announce our team formation for the 2022-2023 UF IPPD program, sponsored by NextEra Energy. We hope to be part of the future of renewable energy. The team consists of four amazing engineers: Quinton Wiebe… Read More