Automated Design
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Previously Accomplished Work
#Summer 2008
#Spring 2008
#Fall 2007
Summer 2008
Throughout the Summer 2008 term, important changes were made to our Automated Design Algorithms to make them more effiecient and user friendly. We've also worked to incorporate a shallow plant design into our Automated Design Programs. This Shallow Plant Design allows for decreased construction costs, but also created the need for a new sedimentation tank inlet design. Many of the Design Programs were reworked and the AutoCAD Design Programs were also updated for the new design
At the end of the Summer 2008 term, the Master Program has been fully linked. Much testing and debugging of this program needs to be done in the future to ensure the accuracy of this design tool.
Design team weekly minutes semester goals.
Design Team Members: Alissa Diminich, Nicole Gumbs, Daniel Menendez, Sara Schwetschenau, Sarah Stodter
Spring 2008
During the Spring 2008 semester significant advances were made to the design alogrithms by the Unit Processes team and the Hydraulic Design team. The Hydraulic Design and Unit Processes teams from the Automated Design Team were responsible for determining the best algorithms for each component of the water treatment plant. The AutoCAD team was responsible for continuing the automated design drawing process
The work of each of these teams began linking towards the end of the Spring 2008 semester in order to create a single Automated Design Program. The ensemble constitutes the automated design program that will be used by the AguaClara team to quickly develop plans for new water treatment plants -to be built in Honduras. At the end of the Spring 2008 semester much work was still necessary to fully integrate the design algorithms make them more efficient.
Design team weekly minutes and semester goals.
Design Team Members: Leslie Campbell, Alissa Diminich, Becky Katz, Sarah Long, Rachael Moxley, Tania Quesada, Anastasia Rudenko, Raul Santiago, Cherish Scott, Tamar Sharabi, Vimala Adapala
Fall 2007
Throughout the 2007/2008 academic year the automated AutoCAD drawing has also advanced to reflect the current plant design with newer design changes updated by the Spring 2008 AutoCAD team.
AutoCAD team semester accomplishments.
Team
The goal of the Automated Design Team is to edit and improve the current design algorithms to make sure they stay up to date with recent research findings. It is the team's job to make sure the AutoCAD drawings accurately reflect the state of the design algorithms. The ultimate goal of the Automated Design team is to complete the programs so that they can be put online.
Design Algorithms
The algorithms used to design all of the unit processes for the construction of an AguaClara plant are compiled within the MathCAD master program. The master program then outputs the important parameters from the algorithms. All algorithms are documented on the Master Program Page.
Plant Designs
As we complete designs for plants they are compiled on the Design Projects page.
Goals and Minutes
Archived goals and meeting minutes can be found below:
Design Team Goals and Meeting MinutesDesign Team Members: Alissa Diminich, Daniel Menendez, Tania Quesada, Vimala Adapala