MAE171b/MAE175b/MAE126b
midterm

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
Spring Quarter, 2008

Prof. Beg, Prof. de Callafon, Prof. Kleissl and Dr. Shevchenko

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Grading

The midterm examination for MAE171B and MAE175B will compose 30% of the course grade.  It is broken down into a 5-10 minute oral presentation by the group (10%) and a written report (20%) of a maximum 8 pages.  The report and presentation should cover the following topics in regard to your project and graded as follows:


1 Project Definition and Objectives (3 pts)  
2  Project Task Descriptions (5 pts)  
3 Team Assignments and Organization (2 pts)  
4 Work Schedule (2 pts)  
5 Experimental/Theoretica/Design Methods (5pts)  
6 Progress to date on tasks (3 pts)  
7 Overall Presentation (5pts)  
  Total (25 pts)  


 

Instructions for oral presentation and report

Referring to the items mentioned in the table above, items 1-3 should be the opening of your presentation and can be given by one person.  Items 4-6 are the main body of the presentation and report in which each team member should present the scope of his/her tasks, applicable methods, and progress to date.  The presentation should be closed by one person and give a summary of progress to date and highlight any outstanding issues such as parts or materials ordering and delivery, manufacturing or machining, etc.

Time and place

The Midterm oral presentations will be given over three lecture times: 
Monday April 28, Wednesday April 30 and Friday May 2 from 5:00pm till 6:50pm in YORK 2622.  All written reports will be due on Monday April 28 at the beginning of the presentations. Late reports will lose 50% of the grade for the report and oral presentation!


Schedule for oral midterm presentations
We start the presentations at 5:00pm and each presentation including questions should take a maximum of 10 minutes. The updated list of midterm presentations will be as follows. Note that the list of presentations is NOT in chronological order. Everyone who has a presentation scheduled for a particular day should be present during all the midterm presentations on that day.



Midterm Presentations for Monday, April 28, 2008, YORK 2622 (NOT in chronological order)


Project B2: 3D Magneto-Hydrodynamic Simulation of Plasma Jets
Project members: Grothman-Pelton, Joshua Daniel (open for signup for 1 project member with simulation background)

Project B4: Suspension Frequency Optimization
Project members: Anderson, Joseph H & Le, Trinh H & Leung, David T-C & Seung, Harrison.

Project C2: Coordinated Tracking of Mobile Robot With Extremum Seeking
Project members: Halim, Benjamin Joseph & Howarth, Cody Charles & Xie, Yang & Gaudlitz, Erika.

Project C3: Depth Stabilization of Pneumatic Submersible Drogue
Project members: Maghy, Scott John & Lui, Derrick Hon-Chiu & Fishler, Benjamin Edward & Harris, Mitchell Clark.

Project C6: Ballast Control System for UUV
Project members: Dacoron, Larry Ferrer & Chen, Yi Pei & Li, Pengchong & Urquhart, Bryan Glenn.

Project E1: Jack in the Box Goes Green
Project members: Tang, Erik E & Thai, Diana Connie & Chow, Chi Wai & Zvanut, Gregory Albert & Wong, Mariel Christine.

Project E2: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platform on the UCSD Shuttle
Project members: Hsi, Eddy H & Lawson, Jonathan P & Kerins, James J & Lau, Ka Shing.

Project E3: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platform for RIMAC Water Use
Project members: Sangel, Jonathan Harris & Pogue, Michael Tyson & Keller, Samuel Edward Julian & Kromsky, Yuri.

Project E4: Indirect environmental turbulence measurements using a model airplane
Project members: Sankur, Michael Derin & Patel, Ambrish Pramod & Taylor, James Zachary Belyea & Rosenberg, Charles Geoffrey & Khandekar, Kunal Chandrashekhar.

Project E5: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platform or Autonomous Environmental Data Aquisition
Project members: Dutton, Justin James & Hay, Shawn G & Taylor, Nathaniel Elliot & Vonplaten, Darren Lane.

Project M2: Fracture Toughness of Bone and Antlers
Project members: Sadr, Ideen & Rayatparvar, Ali T & Sheppard, Frederick Alonzo & Nguyen, Chieuduong.

Project M7: Design and Analysis of Inline Skating Wheels
Project members: Shehab, Kareem Gamal & Kuo, Shao-An & Wang, James Chun-Cheng & Wang, Pangli


Schedule of Midterm Presentations for Wednesday, April 30th, 2008, YORK 2622 (NOT in chronological order)


Project B1: Creating sun and starts in the laboratory
Project members: Lorentz, Thomas David & Fan, Daniel Honghu.

Project B3: Optimization of Aerodynamic Aids forAutocross Racing
Project members: Crummett, Philip M & Blanco, Ernest Steve & Tse, Alexander Brian & Khorsandian, Behrang & Apperley, Adam James.

Project B5: Design and Analysis of Brake Rotors for a Formula Car
Project members: Iwashita, Randall Toshiya & Mata, Cristian & Yamasaki, Taku Ellis & Niemi, Brian Matthew.

Project B7: Shock Absorber Tuning
Project members: Freerksen, Isaiah & Bloom, Neal Brandon & Molina, Norman Ner & Nguyen, Vinh Trong.

Project B9: Surface Drag Reduction Via Surface Texture for Underwater Vehicles
Project members: Burrell, Kelsey L & Eib, Andrew Paul & Sjobom, Leslie Dawn & Sutterley, Tyler Clark.

Project C7: Modeling and Control of the Switchblade
Project members: Marshall, Kassandra Leigh & Hayes, William Joseph & Brune, Anson Eliot & Fall, Scott Alexander.

Project C8: Collision Detection System for Manned/Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
Project members: Bequilla, Richell R & Cadavona, Brent Daniel & Lubong, Mark John & Rosano, Rossano D & Tebcherani, Rodolph Elias.

Project C11: Coordinated Tracking of Mobile Robot With Extremum Seeking
Project members: Choi, Chun Fai Jeffrey & Aung, Zaw Win & Lau, Hing Lawrence & Law, King Yiu & Madeira, Eugenio Bettencourt Gregor.

Project E11: UCSD Building Energy Use
Project members: Henderson, Michelle Lynn & Denton, Megan Aileen & Victorino, Chad Lewis & Fujiyoshi, Christopher Kotaro.

Project E16: Elastic Swimming
Project members: Ly, Jacky & Ashur, Dor Yisrael & Tay, Sonny Mun & Nikaiyn, Damoon M.

Project M3: Mechanical Properties of Ram Horns
Project members: Peppe, Patrick Kevin & Collier, Mark & Szijarto, Steven & Baumgart, Bryce Gantt & Fischman, Guy.

Project M4: Mechanical Properties of Turtle Shells
Project members: Thou, Tittya & Ouyang, Eric Hsu & Danh, Rosi & Quan, Long T.

Project M5: Fabricating bone minerals from solution
Project members: Goon, Kevin David & Shiao, Stephen Conway & Yoshida, Reo Tony & Toubi, Jacob.

Project M6: Measurement of the Corneal Tensile Stress Under Applied Loads
Project members: Yoo, Aram & Rebollo, Kelvin Oswaldo & Roshandell, Melika & Weiller, Robert Claude.

Project M9: Turbulence Flow Stimulation for Bioluminescence
Project members: Leslie Sjobom & Kelsey Burrell & Andrew Eib & Tyler Sutterley.

Schedule of Midterm Presentations for Friday, May 2nd, 2008, YORK 2622 (NOT in chronological order)


Project C1: Design and Control of a Magnetic Levitation System
Project members: Olney, Karl Liberty & Gollner, Michael John & Gray, Philippa Erin Kay & Powers, Alicia Michelle.

Project C5: Experiments on Optical Underwater Communication
Project members: Datu, Marissa Guevarra & Kim, Daniel Chang & Lu, Ken Jian & Peng, Kevin Tsuan-Yu.

Project C9: Foot Pressure Sensor for Physical Therapy with Children
Project members: Abnoosian, Edmond & Ang, Paulo B & Castillo, Eduardo Alejandro & Guevara Jaramillo, Leonel.

Project C10: Multi-Touch Display: Improvement of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Project members: Robinson, Evan Kendal & Miller, Joshua James & Nguyen, Truong Binh & Zhang, Yupeng.

Project E7: Reduction of vehicle drag through slipstreaming: Consequences for CA fuel consumption
Project members: Whitmore, Alexander Jason & Worobec, Spencer T & Adams, Drew Anthony & Gregory, David John.

Project E8: Smart Grids for Renewable Energy
Project members: Harper, James Patrick & Rodriguez, Andrew S & La Marche, Jean-Paul Pinamonti & Malkonian, Hayik Agob.

Project E9: Solar Photovoltaic Performance
Project members: Lieu, Kimberly L & Lynch, Kevin Michael & Chang, Amy Elizabeth & Nguyen, Chau Ngoc

Project E10: Temperature, Humidity, and Trace Gas Calibration Chamber
Project members: Andeck, Michael D & Jara, Gary & Kim, Edward Young-Whan & Na, Jacob & Hassanein, Ahmed Esmat.

Project E12: Measuring Urban Heat Islands
Project members: Nguyen, Lamson Vu & Kim, Daniel Kyungmin & Lee, Robin Hahn & Bui, Thuy Nguyen.

Project E13: Particulate Matter
Project members: Hill, Melissa & Wick, John Charles & Ripley, Barry S (open for signup for 1 project member)

Project E14: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) at UCSD
Project members: Haar, Eric Kenneth & Munoz, Jorge Alberto & Ochoa, Monique Nicole & Rahman, Mohammad Arafater & Volberding, Benjamin Todd.

Project E15: Acoustic Propulsion
Project members: Cheng, Mu-Hua & Lew, Eric Richard & Phan, Linda Do & Tse, Jessica Ga-Yee.

Project E17: Swimming torus
Project members: Zargaran, Sammy & Martinez, Derrick.

Project M10: Sufrboard Material Testing and Correlation to Finite Element Model
Project members: Abadie, Charles Hedrick & Kaluzny, Joel V & Olivieri, Simon Jonas & Schwartz, Kenneth Ian.

 


Maintained by Prof. R.A. de Callafon, last revision: 19:15 AM 04/28/2008