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Week 5 (02-21-18): Presentation 1

We delivered our first presentation today for the whole class and provided everyone our progress from the previous weeks and the upcoming week's work we have ahead of us. The game plan was that I start the presentation off by giving everyone a gist of what the Spartan Superway was and why our team and the 12th scale teams were important to the success of Superway in general. Next, Angelo stepped up and provided the design specifications that we agreed on last semester. That information is found on slide 5. In addition to that, he let the class know about the biggest challenges we had for the upcoming semester. Kevin started talking about the manufacturing processes, the updated Gantt charts, and the team's budgeting for the upcoming semester. He also let the classmates know his progress regarding the 3D printed brackets and that all we needed to do to complete the bases were to weld them together. In conclusion, I ended up the dependencies and contingencies of the project and the issues that we needed to focus on in order to make sure this project is a success.


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