Continuing Professional Development Project

The objectives of the project were to design and build a car from a mousetrap and other materials, the main goal being to reach maximum displacement, and to use the design to demonstrate a personal understanding of the principles of physics incorporated. While our car did move and function, it did not reach a distance of ten meters, a set goal. Overall the goals, while not met completely, were at least somewhat accomplished.

Intended to contend in the 24 Hours of Le Mans (the world's most seasoned continuance race), the Mirabeau resembles a race auto from each conceivable edge. its underlying cost is

The purpose of this laboratory experiment is to construct a mousetrap vehicle. The vehicle needed to go travel five meters. My partner and I build a mousetrap car that obtain a two-axle vehicle with four CDs making the produce optimum acceleration and travel.

This paper is an analysis of Road King Trucks’ new project which is introducing a new product into its product line. I will decide whether run the project or not. Six issues will be discussed as follows 1) importance of energy cost; 2) project’s cash flows; 3) cost of capital; 4) choose an engine 5) evaluation 6) accept or reject.

The most innovative element used, in regards to vehicle design, was a cardboard box as a frame for the racer. Four holes (two across from each other in the front and back) were punched for the axles. This idea was obtained upon finding a longer, narrow shoe box while searching for a wooden dowel to use as an axle.

The building process of the cars starts out with a piece of wood, students need to cut a chunk out of the back to make room for the gears connecting the rear motor to the axle. You could choose with your team any design that

Final Conclusion Entry The purpose of my mousetrap car design was to explore how far my car would travel with the laws of motion, friction, potential energy, and kinetic energy acting upon the car. I designed the car to be light and long, with the car being 45 centimeters in length, having a lever arm of 24 centimeters, and a mass of 82.3 grams, because the car would use more string to rotate the axle when the car is longer and less force would be needed to propel the car with less mass. I used 4 wheels congruent to each other with a diameter of 7.5 centimeters. I used rubber bands fasteners to align the car.

Design 1, the bike, was a mousetrap car based off of the engineering design of a bicycle. The bike would have two main wheels, one in the front and one in the back. The design would also consist of two more smaller wheels, one wheel attached on each side of the car similar to “training wheels”. This model was designed to be the safest of the three and was going to give our group a safe way of building a car that might not be the prize winning design but

With Patryk/Dawid we mainly work in team. Our main task was to desing and create skill competition station. We started at mechanical and electrical scheme in Proge Cad Professional program. After that we collect items needed to it project and created list of missing elements. When all elements arrived, it was time to make aluminum frame, place sensors, fuses, switches, connectors and all Mitsubishi modules like:

After countless hours spent reading article after article, book after book i felt confident enough to begin my project, i used new found skills to restore the truck the best I could with what little tools i had and sold the truck for twice what i bought it for leaving me a 30% percent profit margin after figuring in time, labor, and materials. this project not only sparked a love for working on vehicles but also the profit that could made from them. Soon i realized that cars where not only about a daily commute to work every day but that they can be modified or customized to be fun, fast, and entertaining which lead me to building my first race car. I spent endless amounts of time researching the best engines and chassis that could be made fast on a budget. I came across a 1996 Honda prelude, these cars were not only aesthetically good looking but were easy to customize as well. After building the motor from ground up and turbo charging it the car was fast but not fast enough so i made some more modifications. This proved to be a bad idea

When German troops were sweeping across western Europe and North Africa early in 1940, with lightning speed. The U.S. Army had to have it’s own fast, lightweight vehicle as quickly as possible, so they put out a call to 135 different American automobile manufacturers for a running prototype to be presented, within just forty-nine days. Only the American Bantam Car Company responded, and

We propose Baxton Technology choose to enter a Joint Venture with Bar Maisse to get access to the European Market. The European Market offers great opportunities for Baxton Technology because the European countries France, Germany, Italy and UK each have more than 20 million vehicles in use, with Germany having the largest domestic fleet of 44 million vehicles followed by Italy, France and the UK. The

In recent times, CFD analysis, with the advent of computer architectures with superfast processing capabilities are rapidly emerging as an alternative to wind tunnel tests. In vehicles body development, reducing of drag is essential for improving fuel consumption as well as protect the global environment and the aerodynamics refined body is also aesthetically attractive, it will appeal to the customers. In this papers the process taken to optimize the shape of a vehicles . The Autodesk CFD program was used to iterate toward a converged solution with the goal of obtaining a better flow around the vehicle. The results are analyzed and only the drag force is compared with a recognized journal to validate the results. These practices were detailed in hopes that further research would use the ground work laid out in this paper to redesign existing vehicles in order to improve handling and increasing fuel efficiency.

These ideas and technologies have been used in other industries but they can be adapted to these vehicles, in order to improve their cost, effectiveness, and maneuverability. Key concepts that can be borrow are all electric components, open architecture systems, modularity, active suspension and control, plug and play components and autonomy.

An average of 28 years’ working experience in the field of automotive design and development is owned by our Engineers from the Engines Department. By applying the major tool, PTC’s Pro-Engineer; the design team can focus on the original design of the concept. With an aim to study and perfect the Thermo-Mechanical, Fluids Mechanics and Dynamic Behavior, the predictive analysis package will be imported with the parametric designs before the designs are used for any hardware.