Individual Weekly Journal
Week 1 Week one of senior project consists of meeting our teammates who have previously been assigned to us based on project interests. The half-scale was my first choice out of the other full-scale and small-scale teams but I was wary of whether the full scale would be of greater interests. My initial reasons for wanting to be in the half-scale team included the fact that with the half-scale, I would be able to learn about the Superway project on a broader scale. Since automobiles and mechatronics are not my specialties, my hopes with this project are to see what I can learn from it. But after I heard of the possibilities that the half-scale holds, I decided to be apart of the team. Learning that the current bogie status will not make it up the 17-degree incline, my teammates: Oscar Balvaneda, Hector Gomez, Matthew Leal, and Karandeep Singh and I discussed the possibilities of including a new motor and possibly a different wayside power approach. Week 2 With our ambitious