Background for Rocket Memo 1 Goals The goals of this project I ntroduce class members to the design analysis and test process Develop team skills Reinforce or preview course content ID: 558105
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Rocket Project
Background for Rocket Memo
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Goals
The goals
of this
project:
Introduce class members to the design, analysis, and test process. Develop team skillsReinforce or preview course contentPhysics 1: ballisticsCalculus: integration concepts
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Who Wants These SkillsSlide4
Status
Design work on this project is completed and the project is at a stage where the engineering team is responsible for performance analysis and test.
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Team Members
Team leader: responsible for logistics, ensuring access to materials and space, coordinating final report. Responsible for data logger for launch data.
Manufacturing engineer: responsible for ensuring that the rocket is built to specifications
Test engineer: provides data for input to model of rocket.
Design analysis engineer: responsible for ensuring that a complete numerical model of the rocket is available and used with test data inputs and comparison to mission logger results.5Slide6
First Job: Communicate!!!!
Memo will focus on how you will contribute to the rocket test program with the computer model of rocket performance and estimate of the maximum altitude of the rocket.
You will need to communicate both the value to the project and your needs for input to the modeling (thrust curve, mass of rocket, ??). Slide7
What Will You Promise?
Remember, you are proposing what you will do in the modeling, not providing results.
YOU DO NOT GIVE RESULTS, YOU TELL WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING!!!!
You will need to explain what tools (physics, math and Octave or Excel) will be used to do the modeling and why we can depend on those tools.Slide8
Writing Questions…
Audience:
A “non-specialist technical sophisticated audience.
Explain why you are able to do this work reliably and explain that the model is based on well accepted physics
Describe how you will verify the accuracy of your modelThe memo needs to be succinct. Length does not make it stronger.You should at least mention budget and timeline even if you are not able to include details at this timeSlide9
Details
Who are you:
Johanna Smith, Engineer, Rocket Products, your town ME
Who are you addressing:
Your boss, a technically sophisticated non-specialistWhat you will be doingCreating a computer model of flight to find maximum altitudeBuilding a rocketValidating the model with data from a flightSlide10
Staffing and Budget
StaffingTeam leader
Manufacturing engineer
Test engineer
Design analysis engineerBudgetRocket (Estes Loadstar), engine, launch site expenses (cookies?), rental of launch pad ???Slide11
Who Gets the Memo
If you are in ECP101 – it is a class assignmentIf you are not in ECP101 – it is a way to organize your thoughts and I will review it
All submissions are electronic