Fall 2018

Fall 2018 Muhammad Rashid Best Project Award winners.

Fall 2018 First Place

Machine Head Functionality Testing Station
Team Members 
Kelly Flack and Conner McCreless
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Bhuvana Ramachandran
Abstract
The project involves the design of a testing station to be incorporated into the production line of the GE 2.X Machine Head. The testing station is capable of delivering power to the Machine Head without many intermittent steps and allows the testers on the production line to be closer to the unit for faster routing of connections and quick emergency stop if a problem arises. The project was a collaboration with GE Renewable Energy in Pensacola.

Second Place

IHMC Underwater Data Collection
Team Members
Andre Serafim, Murilo Basso, Harrison Payne, and Joseph Timbang
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Yazan Alqudah
Abstract
The project is an underwater data collection device overseen by IHMC. The purpose of the device is to use a blue laser as a medium for data transfer such that temperature, imaging, current, and so on. The data can potentially be received from artificial reefs and recorded without any manual effort. Such a device has only been somewhat completed (in the sense that the project had a different goal, but similar application) once at MIT under an essentially limitless budget. One of the goals for this device was to recreate MIT’s success on a significantly scaled budget. As such, research was made into methodology on how to model such a system.