Some early analysis now can save you from having to scrap your design after spending hours building a prototype only to discover it won’t work. Use the engineering skills you have learned in other courses and apply them to your designs. Your analyses should be submitted as a part of your lab notebook in written form. Include a short description of what you are analyzing and some kind of analysis based on engineering principles. Each group member should complete at least one analysis, for a total of 4-5 per team.
This will be very project specific, a few ideas below to get you started:
Paper Based AnalysesFree body diagrams
Governing Equations (dynamics, fluids, heat transfer)
Power calculations
Weight Budget
Heat Transfer Analysis
UML Diagrams
Engineering Estimation
Computer Based AnalysesCAD
FEA
Simulink
Kinematic Simulations
Matlab
VHDL
Multisim
STACK: Heat transfer
characteristics of stack material
How fast
heat dissipates depending on the material?
How well
different materials dissipate energy?
We dont
want quick energy dissipation ?