Team 15 - FSAE Uprights

  Progress from February 4 - February 17th From February 4th through February 17th the team has worked on acquiring the material for the machinist, providing final engineering drawings for the machinist to fabricate, and has begun prototype testing for the validation. The team received the first order of the materials on February 4th and the second order on February 8th. The team also finalized the engineering drawing for the machinist on February 9th and sent in the drawings on February 14th. The team expects to receive the uprights from the machinist in an estimated time frame of March 8th. To begin and get a head start on the validation plan, Dr. Agrawal suggested the team utilize old uprights from the previous competition year and test our validation setup. The team decided on using the uprights from the 2018 competition year and began testing the validation setup on February 14th. The team has tried two setups for securing the upright in a fixed position for the force applicat...

                 Progress from December 11th to February 3rd  During the break, the team made tremendous progress in completing Milestone 3. The team as of February 3rd has finished researching the possible material vendors and has settled on ordering the materials from McMaster-Carr due to the price and the shipping time for the materials. During winter break, the team finished the 3D prototype for both the front and rear uprights. The week of January 22nd the team completed the third task in Milestone 3 by checking the dimensions of the design and ensuring they were compatible with the existing assembly of the car. Dimensions such as the bolt-hole diameter and screw threading have been edited after completion of this task. This then allowed the team to order the material from the vendor and the order is to be received by the 16th of February.  Future Plans to Achieve Major Milestones For the work period of February 4th - Feb...