User:BobFK/enes100/ARM

Link to Team page: 550_ARM

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
1) Engines

2) Poppit

3) Ball Bot

Problem Statement
Construct and test a Stirling Engine as a continuation of Enes100's Spring Engines project.

Task One
Refine problem statement and assist team members with wikiversity page construction. Research heat engines and summarize for team.

Compare actual work done to Task One
Refining the problem statement to the construction of a Stirling Engine caused my research to veer towards the Stirling cycle and to review the previous group's documentation, but not before exploring several Heat engines such as a wheel with its spokes replaced with rubber bands and a closed volume whose pressure, temperature and volume were manipulated by a single piston. I also considered several other options including electric engine and internal combustion engines.

I also initially found the previous team's model confusing and did not understand how it could work.

Week One Narrative
I was in charge of researching Heat Engines in order to narrow our problem statement. When the team convened, the problem statement was edited to focus on Stirling engines.

I had discovered several Heat Engines, but now focused in on Stirling Engines. I had learned and helped team members to learn the Stirling cycle and began working from a previous team's documentation and model.

After some difficulty, I discovered how the previous team's model works by noticing a running model on Youtube that held water as its 'cold' source of heat. I contributed to the team page and added documentation for our first week.

Week One Peer Review
Peer review by CR

Assign Task Two
Collect materials for the Engine and begin its construction in the lab.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.