Michelle Lee's Individual Contribution Page

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Fall 2015 Contributions

This semester, I worked as a member of the Design-Chemical Dose Controller Design the material coordinator of the STARS Filtration Theory team. My team's task was to improve the Chemical Dose Controller's design code used in our Automated Design Tool. I modified the drawing code for the Chemical Storage Tanks Platform such that it drew out the walls around the platform. Additionally, I changed the drawing function of the stairs, so that it did not appear over-sized in the plant drawing. I also modified the Constant Head Tanks drawing functions and redefined their origins variables such that their sizes and positions would be represented in the plant drawing correctly. Efforts were also made fix the orientation of the lever armscreate a mathematical model that predicts head loss as a function of coagulant dosage and the mass of solids accumulated. My role as a material coordinator this semester is to order materials needed for building our apparatus and setting up our experiments, as well as to keep track of and organize materials previously ordered. Additionally, I will design and build a flocculator and tube settler with a floc imaging apparatus. Finally, I will run the experiments to test our filtration model built.