Final Presentation and Prototype Showcase

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/



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