Possible Senior Design Project

[RyanbabZ71]

Well we had our first day of senior design class.  So far this is the front runner

 

http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/

 

ROAD TRIP TO Alabama in april!!!

 

Second on my list is fatigue testing of D2 (tool steel)

[ekonk]

The moonbuggy sounds like a cool project, Plus a road trip is always good

Do you have enough girls in the program to get a partner?  I know there were a total of 3 girls who graduated in Mechanical Engr with me, I'm just wondering if it's a similar situation everywhere.

 

As cool as the moonbuggy sounds, the fatigue testing sounds dull.  A friend of mine got to do plenty of that type of stuff with the little plastic hubs inside of tape measures, and he got sick of it pretty quickly.

[BIG RED DAWG]

Looks like a fun project to build. What is the budget for designing the buggy? Sounds like your pretty much limited to a bicycle based platform. I would consider using a 7000 series aluminum frame as starters.

 

Good luck!

[RyanbabZ71]

Girls:  in the senior design class there are about 35 people.  7 are MEs.  1 is a girl.  I could always get my gf to do it if we need her.

 

As far as the frame we would probably go with some sort of composite (still researching this).