Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Week 7 Blog

I know it's a little late, but it slipped my mind the other weekend and I'm trying to win that amazon gift card..

I knew I wanted to be an engineer in the 5th grade when I failed. I couldn't successfully switch out my electric scooter's back tire for a bike tire so that I could add gears to the electric scooter. Everyday after school I would run to my garage and try and figure out how to get the new idea working. The farthest I got was down the driveway and then the back wheel proceeded to fall off. So why did I realized I wanted to be an engineer when I was frustrated and failing? Because I wanted the resources to finish that project. Knowledge, funding and guidance is all I wanted back then. So I'm glad I failed.

Back to my research... I finally got my heat transfer to successfully incorporate itself in the net heat release calculations, improving the accuracy of the calculation! Now I have the goal of installing a raw O2 sensor in the exhaust system. This is proving difficult because of the lack of information on the part and there is no corresponding controller. I'm going to try and figure it out with our systems and if I cant, we are looking at buying the controller to go along with it. That's all for my research.

Have a good week.

-Brad

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