Fall Semester

· Develop Design Issues for Tidal Turbine. October 4, 2007

· Determine Range of Power and speed for propeller. October 11, 2007

· Design specifications for modifications to test propeller/turbine power output. October 11, 2007

· First Webpage goes live with introductory page and menu on left. Page must include resumes, individual photos and milestones. October 11, 2007

· Design guard modifications on drive system on tow tank. October 18, 2007

· Instrumentation selection and schematic for carriage. October 23, 2007

· Create drawings of dynamometer for test use. October 30, 2007

· Create drawings of mounting system of propeller for carriage. November 6, 2007

· Milestone Review. November 6, 2007

· Purchase order requests submitted for instrumentation for dynamometer.
November 13, 2007

· Purchase order for complete drive resistance unit parts. November 20, 2007

· Draft Midterm Report. December 6, 2007

· Complete fabrication of modifications to carriage. December 13, 2007

· Midterm report due as a PDF posted as a completed webpage. December 19, 2007 11:30 am

Spring Semester

· Design procedure completed for experiment to produce propeller/turbine power output curves. January 29, 2008

· Install modifications to carriage on Tow –Tank February 12, 2007

· Mount propeller on carriage for test pull. March 18, 2007

· Completed data acquisition software for obtaining experimental data demo. February 26, 2007

· First test data from propeller in water. March 18, 2007

· Re-Design experiment procedure and parts as needed. April 1, 2007

· Run experiment to determine power producing propeller curves from set velocities of flow. April 8, 2007

· Post-processing of data to develop power curve. April 22, 2007

· Team Project Poster. April 29, 2007

· Lab Cleanup & Infrastructure project completed. April 30^th, 2008

· Open House – Review of Projects. May 1, 2008

· Final Webpage submitted, for review during final exam period. Monday May 5^th, 2008. 12:00 pm