WE DID IT, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!!!! PDR complete, and it went swimmingly. Oh yeah, you heard that right, swimmingly. One more time? Maybe this time in all caps? Okay then, SWIMMINGLY. On Monday, October 12th, at 10am, team SWAMP gathered… Read More
Blog Post #5 – The Final Stretch before PDR
On the eve of our IPPD final report presentation, Team SWAMP was busy at work preparing for the day ahead! Amidst the surge of assignments engineering students are all-too-familiar with, SWAMP was pondering what awaited us at Crystal River tomorrow.… Read More
Blog Post #4 – PDR, Peer Reviews, & powerpoints
Last week we presented our IPPD power plant project on pipes and pumps to our peers. Try saying that five times fast! Let’s rewind to why we even did that presentation. To show our concept designs to our sponsors, our… Read More
Blog Post #3 – A Journey Towards White Belts: Lean Six Sigma Training
This weekend, students in the IPPD program had the opportunity to complete Six Sigma White Belt Training, and 4 members of our team had the opportunity to attend this event. We learned about evaluating and optimizing any process, from assembling… Read More
Blog Post #2 – Initial Site Visit!!
Our team recently had the opportunity to visit Duke Energy’s Crystal River North plant for our teams first site visit! During the visit, we not only got to meet more of the Duke Energy team involved in our project, but… Read More
Blog Post #1 – Introduction
Hello! We’re team 5, and over the next year we’ll be working with Duke Energy and our coach, Dr. Bean, on the fire water/service water system optimization project for Crystal River North Units 4 and 5. Our goal is to… Read More