My name is Bryan Christopher Oyan. I am a 5th-year Mechanical Engineering student here at San Jose State University. Back in 2015, I was a part of Spartan Superway and I worked with Ron and Dr. Furman on the 1/12 scale team. Unfortunately, due to my living situation at the time, I was only able to work part time and helped with the manufacturing and fabrication of the track parts that were already designed by my colleagues. However, this upcoming year, I would like to be a part of the whole process and contribute my experiences in previous internships and completed classes to the success of the project. In addition, I come from a very heavily populated metropolitan area of Los Angeles and during Dr. Furman's presentation he really pointed out the problems with public transportation. Dr. Furman also spoke about the advancements with autonomous vehicles and how if everyone had them then the roads would still be congested. These two points really resonated with me and since I am aspiring to be a mechanical engineer, I would be thrilled to be a part of the next big societal changing project.
On Monday, the team met up and needed to address some of the issues that we had with the welder. Kevin was in constant communication with administration and Dan (from full-scale bogey) to ensure we were taking the correct course of action. Kevin and I took a trip to Praxair to retrieve a new tank of Argon for the remaining welds. After coming back and setting up the welder, I started and finished the welds necessary for the support structures. I encountered some issues during this process as I never found the correct way to properly weld these two components together due to the differences in thickness of the square tubing and the sheet metal. If I utilize too high of a current, the sheet metal would have a hole burnt through. However, if the current was too low, there would be no penetration of the square tubing. Even after completing 80 welds, this process was not mastered and still need to be cleaned up through other methods that will be looked into.
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