Nikolas Mifsud Spartan Superway

This week was our final presentation as well as the prototype showing. Our presentation went extremely well even though we unexpectedly had to present first. After the presentation, we watched the other teams' presentations. The full-scale teams were first, followed by half-scale, and then small-scale. The prototype drive bogie was finished on Friday, May 3rd, including the alterations that needed to be made to it by the Motor team. In addition to the presentation to Dr. Furman, the Bogie Integration Team was invited to the SJSU Mechanical Engineering Alumni Event on May 9th. We presented our project as well as introducing Superway to the Alumni and ME faculty. This presentation went very well and attracted a lot of interest. A link to our final report and my LinkedIn account can be found below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mifsud-nikolas/

The last 2 weeks were spent assembling our drive bogie. Brandon and I spent a little over 40 hours between fitting, filing, boring, and welding the components through the weeks. Due to changing from metric to customary for assembly, there were some tolerance issues which required fixing with filing. The drive bogie turned out very well as shown below. The bogie is currently at Superway to have other teams integrate their systems. There was a slight issue with the alignment of the axle for the motor team. This was caused by shifting or warping of parts during welding and will be resolved by increasing the hole size by milling. Also, after speaking with guideway team, we have decided to shelve route selection for this year. Their third rail would not be ready in time and we would require having parts machined. In addition to preparing for the Senior Project presentations on May 10th, Dr Furman requested that the Bogie Integration attend the SJSU Mechanical Engineering Alumni Event. We