Week #5 Progress - Last Week

Week 5 was a pretty busy week because it is assembly. We spent a lot of time in assembly process mounting column beam supports to the length beams, assembling straight and curved tracks to track supports, mounting wooden brace supports on to the track.

In the process, Jack from the solar canopy team helped us a lot assembly the track. We encountered problems such as supporting weight from the split portion of the track, but we were able tackle problems and remodel the existing SolidWorks track model. The last day of this program, we included the bogie, wayside, and bogie teams were able to test their parts on the track.





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