During last Wednesday's meeting, we opened with short speeches to introduce ourselves, our engineering interests with regards to the project, and some of what we had read so far in the INIST library. It had unfortunately been a while since I had taken Public Speaking. While I had prepared a short speech, I feel I did not deliver it very well as stage fright set in and I spoke more rapidly than intended and skipped some of the content. It was not a great first-showing, but I believe I will do better in the future as I grow more comfortable with the Superway project group.
After everyone had delivered their minute speech, we had a quick tour of the Spartan Superway Design Center (SSDC). It was slightly redundant since I had seen much of it the week before at the first dinner meeting, but there were some new things pointed out as well.
After the short tour, we broke off to form groups, talking with other students about what different people wanted to do on the project. I went over to the full-scale group to talk about the gantry. We split off into two general groups: one to work on a suspension and the other to work on a fail safe. I tentatively joined the latter, thinking my mechanical design focus would do the most good there.
After that, the meeting was done. However, I wasn't entirely done. During the meeting, I had done some quick sketches of what intersections for the Superway network might look like and noticed some problems. When I asked Dr. Furman if the team had designs for intersections worked out, he told me that that would be my job (obviously meaning the whole team, but I took it to heart). So I did some thinking about what the full track network might look like, and made some progress. I have taken it upon myself to work out some of those logistics, since I find that kind of thing fun, and will try making a mock-up network and posting the ideas here on the blog some time in the future.
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