Project Members:
Steve Buell, Greg Allen, Justin Harbert, and Tim Schlabach

Project Summary:
The S4J-GT is a small airplane, 43 feet in length. It was primarily designed to provide service for passengers connecting local airports to regional hubs. The S4J-GT is capable of flying 276 statute miles as a max speed of 327 knots. The S4J-GT is capable of accommodating 5 passengers and one pilot. It has a capability to carry 200lbs of luggage.

The S4J-GT is powered by two Teledyne CAE Turbine Jet engines, each producing a maximum thrust of 660 lbs. At cruise that thrust is rated at 471lbs for each engine. The overall manufacturer’s weight of the S4J-GT is 3128.47lbs, weighing 5457.21lbs fully loaded. The length from wing tip to wing tip is 43.3ft while the horizontal tail span measures 21.5ft. The over all height of this airplane measures 16.7ft with a vertical tail that is 9ft tall

Here are some AutoCAD views of the S4J-GT.

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Project Summary:
The group is  tasked to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain. Students must function as a team to not only design, build, test, promote, and race a vehicle within the limits of the rules, but also to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities. All vehicles are powered by a ten-horsepower Intek Model 20 engine donated by Briggs & Stratton Corporation.

 Ø SAE Official Mini Baja Page

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Project Members:
Ben Sordelet, Chris Roes, Adam Niles, Michael Byron, Annie Cly, Shawn Wobler and Izabella Rodrigues

Project Summary:
The objective is to build an affordable, small scale off-road vehicle for third world countries. Design specifications include:
 Ø Fitting on the back of a standard pickup truck
 Ø Carry a total of five passengers
 Ø Carrying capacity of 1000 lbs
 Some other specifications include traveling on unleveled terrain, as well as forging water. This vehicle must be fully equipped to travel 100 miles without stopping for fuel. The hardest task in the design is to keep the cost of the vehicle within specifications and at the same time, attempt to produce a dependable, versatile, and structurally stable unit.
 Ø Project Webpage

Frame and roll cage of BUV



 

Suspension / Axle of BUV

 

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Project Members:
Thomas Griffin, Christopher Bixler, James Bauman, and Nathaniel Turner

Project Summary:
This group's task is to design and manufacture a human powered vehicle built for speed.  This vehicle will compete in the ASME sponsored HPV challenge.  The competition will be held in Gainesville Florida  the second week of May 2004.

Testing the CNC code for the farad.

      One of the completed farads.

 

Testing a farad in the wind tunnel.

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Human Powered Vehicle - Utility

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Project Members:
Ryan Canfield, Craig Cotterman, and Greg Lopshire

Project Summary:
Currently there is a football throwing machine made by the Jugs Company.  All operations of the machine are completed manually, reducing the chance of a precisely thrown football.  A kit to transform the existing Jugs football throwing machine into an automated unit would increase the chance of a precisely thrown football.  The project started by looking for ways to accurately control the azimuth (left to right) and vertical directions of the machine.  Also it was needed to find a way to launch a football at the correct time to provide correct timing of the route.  The control of the directions will be completed with a stepper motor attached to a worm gear for the azimuth direction and a stepper motor attached to a rack and pinion gear for the vertical direction.  The ball will feed into the spinning wheels by a set of springs released by an electronic trigger.

Pro-Engineer sketch of modified football throwing machine.

A picture of worm gear and motor used to rotate machine in azimuth (left to right) direction.
 

A picture of the stepper motor used to control the vertical direction.

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