Wrapping Everything Up

Good Evening!


Well everybody, it's been a great year working on this project.  We've put in a lot of time and effort and with Maine Day having come and gone our project is drawing to a close.

Last Friday, April 26th, Dan and I spent our afternoon testing the last of our catch cans on the flow bench.  Just as we finished our last test, Jon and Forest walked in with our finished catch can design in hand.  We looked over the can for a few minutes and then decided to hook it up and run a test on it.  After an initial 1cfm test we decided it was getting too late to continue testing, and called it quits until Monday.

 On Maine Day we set up our flow bench in the middle of Cloke Plaza, a small quad that is central to most of the engineering buildings.We spent the first hour and a half of our morning standing nearby and explaining our project to any passerby who happened to take an interest.  At 9am it was time for all the teams to head into Little Hall to give their Power Point presentations and we were second in line.  Our presentation went off without a hitch, and I think we were almost dead on for our 10 minute time limit.  The only real issue we had with the presentation was cramming a years worth of research, design and manufacturing into 10 minutes.  We had to talk fast, but still be clear.  Our team spent an hour and a half the night before going over the presentation to make sure we had everything down pat.  After all of the presentations were over we went back out to Cloke to do a quick demo of how we run our catch can tests, and then answered questions from parents and other visitors about the project.

The project has encompassed the whole array of the skills we've been taught as MET students.  We've completed print packages, created our own project timeline to manage our project, developed test standards, manufactured our own products and so much more.  Truly this has been an all encompassing engineering project that has kept us on our toes for the whole year.  We've worked through team disagreements, and failed parts; Delayed part shipments and tight scheduling; Late nights and Early Mornings.  At the end of it all, however, we completed a project that our whole team can be proud of.

It's been a great ride and our whole team hopes you've enjoyed following our project.

Sincerely,
The OAVS Capstone Team