Specifications

specified it came down to how to test the machine after it is constructed. It is one thing

to say that a motor is spinning at two hundred rotations per minute but when you have

to find a way to prove it challenges can be encountered. The senior design team was

able to sit down and draft multiple and creative methods that could potentially be

available to them in order to test their designs and collect data on the final designs.

The project had also been a very good hands on approach to many organization skills

that were not necessarily self-evident to the senior design team at the time of the project

but when encountered proved to be good experience for skills that will be requiem later

on in life. Skills such as time management, coordination between group members,

budgeting with both time and money, as well as technical writing will all be useful to the

senior design group in the future to come in whatever kind of careers that the students

pursue with their engineering degrees.

9 Appendices

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