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The project with Ecuador has also given me the opportunity to begin writing up a Design Report that would accompany drawings sent to the on-site partner organizations. The report includes descriptions of the processes taking place within the plant, dimensions of the plant, and detailed drawings. Once the design program has been automated and put online, a general design report will be used to accompany the AutoCAD renderings. This document will not list plant-specific dimensions, but will still include the overall process descriptions and variable-naming guides on the detailed drawings. Heather Hunter has provided assistance by creating the figures in the report.
Other minor contributions during the semester include helping with the semester goals and updating the Design team's wiki page. Changes in the wiki page include organization and creating new pages--specifically, for previous designs. This Previous Designs page will allow future students to archive any issues they encountered, list the designs they completed, as well as see the updates for the plants already constructed. Therefore, after each semester the design pages for each plant can be archived in such a way that they can be easily found later on.
Finally, I also updated the Entrance Tank algorithm documentation page since the dimensions of the Entrance Tank are now being calculated, as well as the length of the grit chamber. Throughout the semester I have also been updating the Variable Naming Guide as programs were completed.
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