Sophomore Engineering Clinic

 

WindturbineNotebookwiki

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Notebookwiki for Wind Turbine Project

Team Notebookwikis

Note: the wikis are set to "private." To access your wiki go to http://my.pbwiki.com and log in. You will see your wiki in the list of wikis you have access to.

Section 1 (Brown)

Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 5

Section 2 (Harvey)

Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 5

Section 3 (Brown)

Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4

Section 4 (Harvey)

Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 5 

Section 5 (Brown)

Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 5

Section 6 (Wolff)

Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4

Section 7 (Courtney)
 Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 5

 

To write a report that accurately represents your design process, you will need to keep a detailed record of that process in the team’s lab notebook and notebookwiki. Your team will document the following:

 

  • Sketches and drawings(see below for advice on graphics and images in the wiki)
  • Tables of testing results
  • Calculations
  • Graphs
  • Responses to “Food for Thought” questions
  • Correspondence among team members or with faculty

 

In addition to providing notes to be used in writing reports, lab notebooks are also important for other reasons:

 

  • First, good records allow the team to frequently review progress and efficiently plan its next steps.
  • Second, in the event that a new member is added to a team or if advice is sought from an outside consultant, good records are necessary to quickly bring him/her “up to speed” with no loss of quality to the team’s work.
  • Finally, if something goes wrong with the design, good records are a “paper trail” that allows for a thorough review of the process to detect mistakes and, if necessary, determine liability.  For all of these reasons, you need to document your design process in a detailed and organized fashion. 

 

The typical standard for level of detail and organization is that someone else who has not been part of the team could reconstruct exactly what you did and reproduce the same results. Basic documentation protocols and practices will be covered in class. When in doubt, the more detail the better. Date and add your name at the bottom of every post you make.

 

Please note that an important assessment criterion will be how collaborative your notebookwikis are. That is, we will be looking to see how many members of your teams are actually posting. One team member should not be doing all the posting; everyone should be working with the wiki equally. 

A note for students in Professor Brown's sections

 

A note for students in Dr. Courtney's sections

 

A note for students in Dr. Harvey's sections

 

A note for students in Dr. Wolff's sections

Put links to the following in the sidebar:

 

  • back to the main Sophomore Clinic page

  • the Course Schedule for Dr. Wolff's sections

  • Meeting Log

    • this page will include a record of days and times that you met, who was present, and, briefly, what was discussed and what decisions were made

  • Weekly Summaries

    • As a team, record the following: what you learned in lab; what design activities you engaged in (during lab or outside of class); what findings were made or what insights were gained; what design decisions you made and what they were based on.

  • Design Log

    • Keep track of designs under consideration, updating the status of each as needed.  Show designs as figures and annotate with information about how the design was developed, how it has been evaluated, what you have determined, and what you are doing with the design as a result of your analysis.  Do not delete designs that have been eliminated; this should be a complete record of all ideas that the team considered

  • Individual Pages

    • Create links to pages for each team member. On these pages I would like you to keep a detailed list of all new skills and ideas that you have learned during the course of the project. These should be completed as you are learning them. So, if you learn how to do machining on a particular day, on that day you should note it. Organize your pages by date. Descriptions of what you have learned should be no longer than 3 - 5 sentences.

 

Other requirements will be added as the project progresses.

 

On Graphics and Images

An important component of the engineering notebooks are the graphics--sketches, photos, etc. Due to the size limitations of the wikis (10MB) your team may not have enough space to upload all of your image files. If this is the case, we suggest the following:

 

  1. In your HDrive, go to open the "public_www" folder (this will allow the images to be viewable via the Internet).
  2. Create a new folder called "sophclinic" and open that folder.
  3. Create two new folders: "rocket-images" and "windmill-images."
  4. Place all images in these respective folders (it will be a good idea for backup purposes if each member of the team has a copy of each image stored in this way).
  5. When you wish to insert an image into your notebook, click on the Link icon, and then enter the URL for the image, which will be something like this: "http://users.rowan.edu/~yourusername/sophclinic/rocket-images/yourimagename.properfileextension"
  6. Readers of the page will be able to click on the link and see your image.

 

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