This week, we completed our product design specifications. This included addressing the customers’ needs and their correlation with product specifications. To achieve this, we developed a House of Quality table to capture the correlation between customer needs and specifications, measuring the importance of each specification. A risk table was also developed in order to capture what risks require the most attention and prioritization. A project timeline table was also created to visualize major deadlines for deliverables and ensure we stay on track throughout the year. In the picture below, we have just finished our weekly meeting with our liaisons and coach. From this meeting, we got to understand more about the specifications for our design, as well as insightful images of the wind turbine main bearing, both as a drawing and with real images taken. We also discussed traveling over to their site to present our preliminary design review(PDR) in October. Outside of all the tables, we will continue to do research for better concept generations, complete the preliminary design review draft, and other assignments throughout the following week at a table in the Prototyping lab or Reed hall.

This week, we scheduled our meeting with our Liaisons and came prepared with an agenda for the meeting to ensure it ran as smoothly as possible. During our meeting with the Liaisons, we began with introductions and coordinated schedules to ensure weekly meetings would be feasible. From there, we delve into the project’s scope of work and constraints. The liaisons shared their expectations and vision for the scope of work while also providing us with valuable resources such as a database on wind turbine failures and CAD model files of the wind turbine to guide our design considerations. This meeting provided a solid foundation and direction, enabling us to begin developing design conceptualizations and conducting research. To wrap things up, we finalized our team name and logo with input from our coach. With this groundwork laid, we are now ready to move forward and tackle the upcoming assignments with greater clarity and momentum.

Hi everyone! Welcome to our team. We are working with NextEra Energy to prototype and design a sensor to detect ferrous debris content in the main wind turbine bearing grease. This week, we introduced ourselves and met with our coach, Edwin Marte, and lab manager, Larry Warren. In our meeting with the coach, we discussed the scope of work, drafted the memo, and future availability of the team members to meet amongst ourselves and with the coach. We finalized our team name and worked on the team logo. Next week, we will prepare an agenda and meet with our liaison engineers, Drake Viscome and Malcolm Butler. We are excited for the learning experience we will gain from this experience and develop further as professional engineers!