UTS and the Project

Here it is, at last, a post about UTS – University of Technology Sydney… where I spent most of my time while I was in Australia and where I learned a lot and made good friends.

My overall opinion about UTS is quite positive. The university provides a lot of practice for the students and we have a tight schedule. The engineering faculty is excellent. The focus is on manufacturing and they have a huge workshop fully equipped with all kinds of manufacturing machines where the students have access to either for learning during the classes or for help with our projects.

One of the subjects I had was Mechanical Design 1, where we had to work hard on a project called Warman Design and Build Competition. Basically we had to design and build a prototype of two vehicles (one had to be fully mechanical) which would serve to transport a payload of minimum 200g of rice across a track that was composed of two tables localized 200 mm from eachother and, to make things easier, the tables were inclined 4° on opposite direction if you understand me? A picture is best to ilustrate it

The track

The vehicles had two minutes to do all that. And they had to interact to each other somehow to transfer the payload from one corner of one table to the opposite corner of the other table. We had to work in groups of maximum 5 and the winner will represent UTS on a national competition in September this year.

Only a couple of minutes before the final trial our vehicles were working just the way they were supposed to. I even got to film it seven times where it was just perfect and we were all so happy with it and relieved that they were finally working. But unfortunately we were a bit unlucky on the first trial – our payload fall on the floor which gave us 0 points. On the second try our vehicles made us proud!! If they worked on both trials we could have won…

Yeah, could´a, should´a, would´a…

Hard work!

Woman´s touch

Disappointment…

The great trial

Happy with the result

Go team!!

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