Bridge Project

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Bridge Project

Job Split

Vehicle Group: David, Tom, Aiden

Bridge Group: Garrett, Hannah, Steven

We made model for the other group

Our model

Using the West Point Bridge Designer program, we managed to find a possible solution with 320000000$. For real life situation, we decided to make some changes.

Group #6

Warm up exercises

-Being more organized

-More communication and being more cautious when we had different opinions

• Stability
• Materials
• Structure

For warming up and getting a better understanding in civil engineering, we built some bridges using straws and paper. We also took the egg drop challenge and worked with Architects students.

Things we still need to change

With the model, we managed to find weak points and fix them.

-Plan the material ahead

-Recognize the difficulty of building a small and narrow car

-Time Management and average the groups

Definition Phase

Build a small scale (4 feet) Truss Bridge with minimum cost as possible for an originally designed vehicle to pass while carrying some weight with limited material.

Project on Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/166785676/

Bridge Group

Define civil engineering: engineering deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.

Mechanical Engineering: applies engineering, physics, and materials science principles to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems

Industrial Engineering: Engineering deals with the optimization of complex processes, systems or organizations, aiming elimanating waste of time, money and material.

-Organize limited resources and list priorities.

-Identify tension and compression forces.

-Trade

-Make improvements of the model and come up with new ideas along the way

The group tried approximately ten different designs. Most of them did not work or had some areas that could be improved. The group kept exploring different possibilities along the way.

Reflection of CE, ME, IE on this project:

The restrictions on the scale and materials on the bridge gave us a challenge on planning ahead. The hands on experience of building the bridge and the car provided a closer connection to the work process and responsibility of a civil and mechanical engineer.

Vehicle design group has the challenge of making the robotics car less than 6 inches in width due to the bridge design and materials provided.