Milestones

 Fall Semester

• Develop Design Issues for Tidal Turbine.  October 4, 2007
• Determine Range of Power and speed for propeller.  October 11, 2007
• First Web page goes live with introductory page and menu on left. 
                  -Page must include resumes, individual photos and milestones. October 11, 2007
• Design specifications for modifications to test propeller/turbine power output.  October 18, 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 web page.  December 21, 2007

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, 2008
• Open House – Review of Projects.  May 1, 2008
• Final Web page submitted, for review during final exam period.  Monday May 5^th, 2008.  12:00 pm