This week was a major milestone for our team. Tuesday was our System Level Design Review (SLDR), an event we’ve been preparing for throughout the semester. The day started with an interactive keynote session, where IPPD teams and liaisons gathered… Read More

This week, FeraFree participated in the Peer Review for our System-Level Design Review (SLDR). We had the opportunity to present our current design and progress to three other IPPD teams – LineTech, DreamSteam, and RideOn – as well as the… Read More

This week, our team has been fully focused on locking down the final details for our System-Level Design Review (SLDR) report. We’ve made significant progress and are now close to completing our draft for the peer-review presentation on Tuesday, November… Read More

This week, our team had the opportunity to attend the University of Florida IPPD Prototype Inspection Day (PID) and showcase the first iteration of our project. We presented a preliminary mechanical model along with a sensor testing setup to several… Read More

This week marked an exciting milestone as we began the first phase of sensor testing for our project. Our focus was on evaluating different sensors to determine which are the most promising for our project’s scope. Through these tests, we… Read More

This week, our team traveled to Palm Beach Gardens to deliver our PDR presentation to NextEra! Due to how far the road trip was, we actually stayed at a hotel overnight and headed over to the NextEra headquarter the morning… Read More

This week, we finished our preliminary design review final draft and completed testing code for sensor testing procedure. After our PDR presentation last week, we worked on improving our slides and adding relevant content in preparation for our real PDR… Read More

This week, we submitted our preliminary design review (PDR) as well presented the PDR to our peers and coaches. We received feedback on how we could better prepare for the real presentation in front of our sponsors coming up in… Read More

This was one busy and productive week! Our team spent a lot of time together brainstorming ideas for how our sensor will be implemented. This image of our whiteboard shows some of the potential candidates we may be working with.… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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,… Read More