The Past Few Months

The build season for the 2011 FSGP is in full swing, so I think its appropriate that the blog gets back up and running. Quite a bit has happened since the school year's beginning, so I'll get right into the recap.

September saw the 2010 team regroup and begin our new member recruitment. We were present at many events geared towards freshman engineering students including the Welcome Week tours of Parkview and the engineering grill-out. By the month's end we had gained many new members. We also managed to put together a game plan for the season.

In October, we began driving the car to start training some of our new driver candidates. Mitch and Nick also put a few hours on the car so that we could decide what changes we wanted to make when we rebuilt the car. On Oct. 2nd, we made a trip to the College of Health and human Services to display at the alumni tailgate for WMU's homecoming game. Later in the month, we also made a trip to Edison Elementary here in Kalamazoo for a demonstration of the car for the 3rd grade students.



When November rolled around, the team had finally gotten a telemetry system up and running. Michael Nienhuis of WMU's SAE team also pitched in a little help by setting us up with a data collection system to help us get feedback on the suspension system while it drove on the road. Testing of materials for the new array began and preparations for the construction of the new array began in October, but they really got underway during November. The team participated in the annual Kalamazoo Holiday Parade and this year we took both the 2005 and 2010 cars, which really got the crowds excited. At the month's end we proceed to completely disassemble the car so that we can overhaul the car and make it much more efficient.




Bronco Pride,
Joshua Allen