Midterm MAE171B/126B, Spring 2009

MAE171b/MAE126b/MAE175b midterm

Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Laboratory
Spring Quarter, 2009

Prof. Cattolica, Prof. Meyers, Prof. Kleissl and Dr. Shevchenko

Grading

The midterm examination for MAE171B/MAE126B/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 presentation should cover the following topics:

1	Project Definition and Objectives (3 pts)
2	Project Task Descriptions (3 pts)
3	Experimental/Theoretical/Design Methods (5pts)
4	Work Schedule (2 pts)
5	Preliminary Results (4 pts)
6	Team Assignments and Organization (2 pts)
7	Overall Presentation: Presentation well-rehearsed? Captures audience? Sufficient graphic material? Properly referenced? (6pts)
	Total (25 pts)

Instructions for oral presentation
Referring to the items mentioned in the table above, items 1-2 should be the opening of your presentation and can be given by one person. Items 3-5 are the main body of the presentation 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 explaining team assignments and organization.

A PC operating on Windows with Power Point 2007, Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player and a projection system will be available for your midterm presentation. You can also bring and use your own laptop.
If you are planning to use the PC in the class room:

please bring your presentation on either a CD-ROM or a USB flashdrive
Show up 10 minutes before class, to copy your presentation onto the harddisk of the PC in the class room.

If you are planning to bring your own laptop:

Show up 10 minutes before class to verify your computer display has the right resolution for the projector in the class room.
All presentation from individual laptops will be held at the end of the 2 hour session
Make sure your computer is booted and ready to go a few minutes before your presentation starts.

Time and Place
The Midterm oral presentations will be given over three lecture times: Monday May 4, Wednesday May 6, and Friday May 8 from 5:00pm until 6:50pm in CENTR 119. All written reports will be due on Monday May 4 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 should take a maximum of 8 minutes with an additional 2 minutes for questions. 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, May 4, 2009, CENTR 119 (NOT in chronological order)
C1: Depth Stabilization of Pneumatic Submersible Drogue by Hyung Yoon, Joshua Barroga, Dan Kim, James Parrish
C3: TopBot: Robot Fabrication and Control Implementation by Theodore Cecilio, Michael Orton, Alexandre Spiteri, Vincent Varela, Ryan Engle
C7: SWITCHBLADE: Robot Fabrication and Control Implementation by Colter Cederlof, Billy Wojciak, Evan Coons, Devin Uehling, Omar Abolhosn.
E2: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platform on the UCSD Shuttle by Anders Nottrot, Wai Chen Wilson Ng Yu.
E11: Building Energy Modeling of Honda Car Dealership by Zachary Dooley, Alissa Kispersky, Jillian Peacock, Jonathan Stenstrom, Brian Gervais
E13: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) at UCSD: Price Center by Alex Seunghwan Kim, Andy Diep, Huy Nguyen, Jay Le, Damaris Villalobos
E14: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) at UCSD: Sverdrup Hall by William Yen-shi Chen, Alex Dinh, Dewei Chen, Jesus Solorzano, Renato Tolentino
E15: Carbon Footprint of Reusable vs Recyclable Animal Cages by Wu, Kent; Xiong, Xiao Yang(Gavin); Leung, Freddy K; Tsuji, Takeshi
E17: Thermodynamic optimization of building cooling using outside enthalpy by Christine Nguyen, Nicole Pierini, Aaron Yu, Veronica Aguirre
E18: A Novel Y-Graft Design for the Fontan Surgery by Vikram Juneja, Alice Huang, Esteban Mendoza, Craig Vermeyen , Michael Pattanachinda
M1: Surf board propelled by leg muscles by Steven Matsusaka, Jerry Ni, Jonathan Riveron, Marvil Alfaro, Luis Mendez
M5: Portable tensile testing machine for classroom demonstration by Yarin Sanchez, Allen Rath Yem, Joe Le, Phannvileakk Sourm, Stuart Mason

Midterm Presentations for Wednesday, May 6, 2009, CENTR 119 (NOT in chronological order)
E1: Natural ventilation for Mandell Weiss Theatre by Jennie Alfsen, Daniel Nelson, Joe Missier, Paul Slomanson, Mike Neill
B1: Material Extraction from Biomass Gasifier by Jay Cox, Joshua Marcley, Jonathan Novak, Paul Scannell
B2: Separating Carbon from Ceramic Particles by Matt Drasner, Eric Obana, Barry Ju
B3: Fluidization Properties of Ceramic Particles by Kevin Mandich, Jeremy McKeehen, Su-Min Lee, Minhvu Pham Ly, Dan Kim
B4: Automated Tissue Bioreactor Control by Christina Chun, Greg Gonzalez, James Pura, Robert Van Nice.
B5: Air-Independent Propulsion Diesel-Electric AUV by Nam Nguyen, David Boone, Richard David Price, Patrick Pinano
C10: SIO Sea Water Tank by Alberto Cabrera, Pichaya Sommai, Brodyjohn D. Stancliff, Matthew A. Wasserman.
E3: Measuring Urban Heat Islands with Infrared Camera by Teng Sam, Diana Zhong, Vy Hyunh, Steve Phan.
E4: Multiscale convective heat transfer measurement in UCSD wind tunnel by Danny Yip, Jose Guerrero, James Martin, Alejandra Vazquez.
E6: Measure and model impact of solar panels on building cooling load by Avneet Singh, Kevin Chivatakarn, Thomas Minor, Jeremiah Farinella
E5: Apply Rooftop Robot to Measure Flow and Turbulence over Buildings by Regina Tam, Dinah Lieu, Steven Luu, Linh Tran, Dustin Wyland
M2: Elastic and viscoelastic properties by Alan Choi, Jeanie Kwok, Hoe Y. Lee, Derek Peterson, Mauricio Manzano.
M3: Impact resistance properties by Brandon Reynante, Evan Woolley, Tsukasa Takahashi, Charlie Su
E8: Hybrid Solar Hot Water and Photovoltaic Performance by Chisom Egbuonye, Jonathan Lee, John Totri, Nathan Weiner, Buay Deng

Midterm Presentations for Friday, May 8, 2009, CENTR 119 (NOT in chronological order)
B7: Dashboard for near realtime water data by Yasuhiro Ikehara, David Ryan, Mike Dettore
C2: Optimization of Engine Performance for Reducing Polluting Gases and Improving Autocross Racing by Erick Barrientos, Kevin Chui, David Tasker, Phillip To, Kevin Tsai.
C5: Plume Tracking Using Mobile Vehicle’s Equipped With Extremum Seeking by Jay Luan, Dung Phung, Andy Luo, Kenneth Khumthong, Abraham Mansir.
C6: Control of UUV by Joshua Cheng, Perry Liu, Casey Fukunaga, Darius Chan.
C8: Design and Control of a High Pole Count Axial Flux Motor by Erik Bettis, Joshua Saylor, Jessie Caldwell, Jeffrey Campeau, Tim Waller
C9: Stabilization of a Nonholonomic Vehicle via a Hybrid Controller by Andy Vo, Paul Wood, Blayne Hearney, AJ Sutton, Colin Wasson
B6: Solar Resource Modeling by Melanie Mateo, NiK Kruhmin, Nathaniel Brown, Clive Chang, Eric Gastelum
E7: Reduction of vehicle drag through slipstreaming: Consequences for CA fuel consumption by Raymond Kim, Cuong Su, Shane Sugiyama, Wiganda Yorza
E9: Solar Photovoltaic Performance by Lancelot Braasch, Joseph Choe, Thomas Cope, Dominic Shiosaki, Tim Springer
E10: Water flow sensor by Samer Naif, Annie Southworth, Edward Drury IV, Tim Havard.
E12: Water stress index for irrigation control at UCSD by Andrew Breitman, Cindy Juarez, Eric McFarland, Junko Nakamura, Bassem Ali.
M4: Nanostructures in bone: structure and mechanical properties by Kevin Choi, James Kiang, Danny Ngo, Timothy Kim
M6: Deformation mechanisms of 2D cellular structure by Calvin Shau, Pablo Juarez, Benny Wong, Brian DeVries
M7: Composites by Armen Gharibans, Matthew Haroutunian, Thomas Chin, Jerry Curiel, Jesse Marin