As a culmination of our semester of work, the Road Watch team attended the System Level Design Review (SLDR) event to present an overview of our system. The event started out with a networking opportunity with the various Engineering Liaisons,… Read More

As the semester comes to a close, we again need to summarize and exhibit our work to our sponsor, FPL. Therefore, we spent this last week drafting our SLDR (System Level Design Review) Report and Presentation. Given the volume of… Read More

This Tuesday (November 14th), the Road Watch team took part in the Prorotype Inspection Day (PID) Event. Here, each team creates a working prototype of their design, and presents it to judges with relevant experience (and to any other teams… Read More

Continuing its efforts from last week, and in preparation for Prototype Inspection Day, the Road Watch team has been busy prototyping. Currently, we have assigned roles as follows Darrion is will be streaming distance data from the LiDAR. Evan is… Read More

After delivering our PDR presentation to our sponsor, FPL, the Road Watch team began work on prototype development. The first step in this is decomposing the project into a list of unique engineering aspects, or distinct problems which need to… Read More

After waking up bright and early this Monday, the Road Watch team commuted down to West Palm Beach for our first visit to our sponsor, FPL. The primary objective of this visit was to give our PDR ( Preliminary Design… Read More

As we wrap up our first stage of the design cycle, we need to summarize and exhibit our work to our sponsor, FPL. Therefore, we spent this last week finalizing our PDR (Preliminary Design Review) Report and Presentation. We endeavored… Read More

This week, the Road Watch team worked on developing our project architecture, which is an integral part of product development. This process starts with the functional architecture, where the product concept is decomposed into components and the functional interactions between… Read More

This week, the Road Watch team attended Six Sigma White Belt training as a team building exercise. The workshop was hosted by our sponsor, FPL. Six Sigma is a method for systematically reducing defects in processes, and is often employed… Read More

This week, we had our first meeting with our sponsoring company, FPL. Specifically, we met with our Engineering Liaisons, Kyle Bush and Scott McDaniel. This was a great opportunity for our team to get answers for many of our lingering… Read More

This week, as we became better acquainted with each other and our abilities, we were finally able to draft our team charter and assign team roles. Here is how we decided to initially architect our team: With roles assigned, we… Read More

This week, the Road Watch team met in person for the first time at the Tuesday IPPD class. After becoming acquainted, we took headshots, prepared for our first meeting with our sponsor (FPL), and discussed the project’s Scope of Work… Read More