9-13-06
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Attendance: Andy, Casey, David, Derrick, Kevin, Nathan
Welcome everyone, we are heading over to Seattle this week. Casey has painted our model and our wing. Someone needs to loan Andy a coug shirt for the alumni meeting tomorrow night. Is anyone comfortable with web editing? Brandon is willing to do this. MME department needs to know about communications person for the club. The department has hired a person who can make brochures and posters for us. Graduation dinner is october 26th. We have budget proposal and progess report is due the end of the month. Andy is working on this. RSO registration in in progress by the RSO office. The is $50,000 available to all of the clubs, Andy is currently working on a proposal for this.
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Design Team Leads
- Casey-Foils
- David-Drive Train
- Jeff-Electrical System
- ???-Hull Design
Our goal is to steadily improve our boat so that we can race every year. We want to get foils working this year and begin working on a new hull and foils.
Foils
- Make a second generation of the foils
- Final foils will be CNC'd aluminum
- Weekly meetings in AMSE office Mondays 2-3pm
Drive Train
- Making a modular design between sprint and endurance
- Work on making design so we can use different gear ratios to improve engine performance
Electrical System
- Pulse Width Modulation control for motors
- Possibly improve endurance race time
- Work on improving solar panel power output
Hull Design
Our Advisor is an expert in Hull and Foil Design. Air Cavity hull design is a possible future design. We have a 1/4 scale model that we can do some hull design testing on