Research into Commercial Products and Defining Team Roles for Better Success

The Wayside Power Team seeks to integrate commercially available products into the 2019-2020 design. In current progress the team found profound interest in certain products provided by various companies, including Conductix for third rail and Schunk Group for third rail connectors. The team continues to seek various available means to improve the wayside power design for application into Spartan Superway.

Figure 1: Conductix top-running third rail design the Wayside Power Team seeks to integrate into the Spartan Superway. 

Source: www.conductix.us 

After Wayside Power Team's first presentation, the team unanimously agreed to rework the team structure to provide improved and more consistent results for future work. In accordance the team designated members to certain task as follows:

Team Roles
Team Managers:
	Project Manager	Alex
	Asst. Project Manager	Shane
Editors:
	Grammar/ Spell-Check	Melody, Alex (secondary)
	Format	Shane
	Consistency	Alex
CAD:
	Lead Drafter	Reynaldo
	2nd Lead Drafter	Alex
	Asst. Drafter	Waylon, Melody

Restructuring the team and more clearly defining team roles will help us better succeed for the future endeavor wayside power has to offer. Furthermore the team has also created a Gantt chart to illustrate the teams long term goals to succeed. This will help the team continue to work against the challenge of busy schedules and deadlines from other projects and classes that it currently faces.

Figure 2: Gantt Chart for Wayside Power Team

Written by,
 Alex Ng

Team Roles

Team Managers:

Project Manager

Alex

Asst. Project Manager

Shane

Editors:

Grammar/ Spell-Check

Melody, Alex (secondary)

Format

Shane

Consistency

Alex

CAD:

Lead Drafter

Reynaldo

2nd Lead Drafter

Alex

Asst. Drafter

Waylon, Melody

Presentation 1

Check out our first presentation. The slides are available at the link below.
Wayside Power Team Presentation 1

9/19/2019 Literature Review and Preparations

This week we decided on the subdivisions each member will specialize in.

Third Rail	Shane, Alex, Melody, Rey
Conductor Shoe	Ryan, Chuong, Melody
Shoe Arm Mechanism	Shane , Rey, Waylon, Melody
Proximity Sensor	Waylon
Wear Analysis	Ryan, Chuong
Insulators	Ryan, Chuong
Proper Grounding	Waylon
Safety	Alex
Power Distribution	Rey, Waylon
Demonstration	Shane, Melody
Current/Voltage Monitor	Waylon

We want to finish our specialized research by 9/23 so that we have time to collect our findings into a presentation. The presentation is due on 9/25. It consists of a literature review, functional specification, challenge anticipation, and Gantt chart.

Teams and Project Proposal

This is the wayside power team. We are tasked with the design, manufacturing, and presentation of a full-scale third rail power system prototype to distribute power to a moving 'bogie'.

Contact Information:

name	department & capstone	phone number	email	gmail
Melody (Aryamitra Bake)	ME, Mechatronics	650-248-9183	aryamitra.bake@sjsu.edu	4melodyb@gmail.com
Shane Sharp	ME, Mechatronics	503-438-0321	shane.sharp@sjsu.edu	sharpshane27@gmail.com
Reynaldo Jahja	ME, Mechanical	925-300-8818	reynaldo.jahja@sjsu.edu	jahjareynaldo@gmail.com
Alex Ng	Me, Mechanical Design	916-812-8026	alex.ng@sjsu.edu	alex.n916@gmail.com
Ryan Tong	MatE	510-364-0791	ryan.r.tong@sjsu.edu	ryan.r.tong@gmail.com
Chuong Nguyen	MatE	408-620-2172	chuong.nguyen@sjsu.edu	poundkickcake@gmail.com
Waylon Chan	ME, Mechatronics	510-425-9129	waylon.chan@sjsu.edu	waylon.chan3@gmail.com

Last Wednesday the group was tasked to redesign or improve the third rail power delivery system for the full-scale bogie. Our team consists of seven members that include two seniors in materials engineering and 6 seniors majoring in mechanical engineering. The group discussed the current design issues, ideas, and design requirements to prepare for the project proposal. The major points of interest included material properties and wear analysis of the third rail and shoe, finding the possible current, voltage, and power delivery amounts, and mostly how to set up a non-contact to sudden contact mechanism. Our team is concentrating on the third rail system only instead of the third rail and power system. This week we were able to set up communications using Slack and Shared Drive. We also had a Zoom meeting just to catch up on deliverables for the proposal. On the meeting on Wednesday, we set up a weekly meeting time for discussions and administrative work. This will occur each week on Thursdays from 12pm to 1pm. Today we set up Shared Drive and a group email for future use with communications to vendors. We discussed setting up Blogspot and research on deliverables.

The current third rail contact shoe design. Taken from Spring 2019 Presentation