Science World—–Stream Table—-#5 Blog
Feb 17th, 2012 by HUA WU
This week most of us were working on the documentation and the final report. In additional, as we mentioned last week, posters were needed to better illustrate the table. Alyssa and Saman were doing the poster and these were what they had so far. The posters part will be included in the recommendation in the final report.
(poster 1)
(Poster 2)
Plexiglas was used in the design and the price was roughly calculated by Jack and Jordan, since we have designed budget for this plan. As our mentor said, it is better to estimate the price by knowing the major and minor cost associated with the project. The estimation will be included in our draft report in addition to summary of the grit experiment we did last week.
The sketch up of the final design created by Julie is shown below. As we stated last week, the final design will include Plexiglas, paddles that creates waves, and four distinct shore line areas for the users to interact with. The design will use the existing drain system, with the options to install additional drain in each of the four shorelines. The entire table will be covered in Plexiglas and most of the barriers will also be made of Plexiglas to allow users to see as much as possible.
(Overview of the design)
( Top view)
( Side view)
We began our final report and presentation this week. Our report will include Introduction, Objectives, Overview (including the descriptions for each coastal scenario), Recommendations (alterations and cost), as well as a brief conclusion.
As scheduled, the PowerPoint for the presentation was roughly made by Alyssa and the content in the slides is similar with one in the final report. We also divided the slides between Alyssa, Jordan and Saman, we plan to run through the slides for a few time and got feedback from our mentor before we present it to our client next Thursday.