June 2, 2016
Finally we have made it to week 10, the final week of the freshman design class.
Over the past week we have been preparing as a group for our final report and presentation.
For the report, we took what we had from the draft and added in our results from the third and most successful trial. We included that trial in the analysis, and showed how the rate of heat transfer and the temperature gap at equilibrium were much better than in the first two trials. We were also sure to mention how the success of the third trial fit into the larger scope of our goals for the lab.
We also took these adaptations to the blog, commenting on how we felt we stuck to the timeline and project goals throughout the course of the ten weeks. Those comments can be found on the goals and timeline pages respectively on our blog.
For the presentation, we used our final report as a guide to pick out the most important points from our experience building the heat pipe. We made sure to touch on our goals, data, equations, and what we learned as a result of planning and execution.
After presenting our project to the class, we felt that it was a tremendous success. Everyone was able to hit on their key talking points and kept the class engaged through demonstrations and animations. While the layout of our slides could have been improved, we were able to completely and concisely answer the questions from the class.
All in all, our group felt that our project was a great success. We had a wonderful experience planning and testing our project, and feel that it is something we can take into the future as we prepare for work on real world engineering problems.
-- Alec, Tran, Matt, and Shjon
