Hello Everyone,
We are going to be hosting another SolidWorks Workshop in collaboration with ASME and BMES. It will be in room 112 Old Engineering from 3:30pm to 5:00pm. We are still organizing a way to host more workshops at a different time to accommodate students who are not able to attend this particular time. Based on the survey we sent out from last week, we will be continuing with basic SolidWorks ad 3D modeling. If you are interested please sign up below. We are still teaching new members who are part of the mini-electric boat to model the boat hull in 3D, but we need to teach the basics of SolidWorks first. Please remember we have a limit capacity of 42 seats. Thank you. http://goo.gl/forms/u5SK9QmqeN
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Hey Everyone,
Yesterday, we had our first Introduction to Solidworks Workshop. It was our first time doing such a workshop and we had a great attendance of 27 students. For the Solar Racing Team new members we will not be meeting this weekend (10/24/15) because there are not enough computers to use to teach SolidWorks. The goal of the next few lessons to learn how to more introduction material and get to the stage of surface modeling. Once you are advanced enough, you will be modeling a 3-D boat in SolidWorks and then 3-D print the boat in the Innovations Lab. We highly recommend everyone to use lynda.com to learn more about SolidWorks. Stony Brook Universtiy offers it for free to students. By the time each group finishes modeling the 3-D boat the rest of the material should be arriving to begin the next designing phase. Thank you! The Solar Racing Team is hosting a SolidWorks workshop this Friday. We'll be teaching the basics in SolidWorks to familiarize any beginners with its functions and interface. The time is to be determined based on the responses from the Google form. There are only 23 spots available for the workshop so RVSP before 5pm tomorrow! Hope to see you all there!
http://goo.gl/forms/WEKNJCr0iz Another fun year at the Solar Splash Competition! Nice to see some of the cool systems that other teams had, getting some inspiration for next year's improvements. Thank you sponsors and all who helped contribute to this effort!
Lots of progress was made through the last few days. The hull was completely sanded down to 800 grit and small holes were filled with clay. The flanges were completed and 3 layers of wax were applied. Next stages include applying PVA green and laying down the fiberglass. Special thanks to our kind friends at Nordan Composites for guiding us through the process.
We continued to apply Bondo body filler on the entire hull. We used higher grit sandpaper and completed the plug. The hull is ready for mold construction this coming week.
Fabrication of the hull is progressing well. It has been transferred to Nordan Composites in Patchogue. Today we applied more Bondo body filler to the bottom sections and sanded it down. It should be ready in time for the upcoming competition!
The main highlights of today was the team visited Composites Prototyping Center, our newest sponsor and partner. With the help of Professor Alkhader, we were introduced to CPC and this Friday, they gave our team a tour of the state of the art facility. They showed us some of their work, that is a Boeing 737 spoiler, Northrop Grumman fighter jet tail wing, and a sports car body made entirely out of carbon fiber(weighs less than 100 lb!!!). We intend to work with CPC to get the boat completed. We will first be visiting Nordon to finish up plug and mold and then work with CPC to finish the wet layup and carbon fiber process. We are very much excited about this new collaboration with CPC!
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