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Contact Info:

Name
Phone Number
Email
Asmaa Darwish
(408)-442-9922
asmaa98darwish@gmail.com
Justin Ghieuw
(510) 676-6681
j.ghieuw@gmail.com
Julio de Pereda Banda
(951)-587-7763
chargers1756@gmail.com
Shane Fatehi 
(408)-306-3044
shane.fatehi@gmail.com
Lissette Romero
(831)-241-3912
lizzie6879@gmail.com

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Scope of Work and Goals:
This year, the small scale teams scope of work is to:
- Develop a sustainable and efficient manufacturing process for the railway
- Design a railway that is repeatable and interchangeable
- Redesign bogie and railway (specifically at the y-junction) so that there is no risk of failure at the y-junction
- Design a bogey with the necessary sensors/electrical hardware which will allow for multiple pods to be on the railway at the same time without the risk of collision
- Possibly develop an app to be able to communicate back and forth with the bogies from users mobile device

The main goal is to build from prior years small scale designs and make the small scale model as reliable, efficient, and secure as possible. Another main goal would be to have the small scale model be able to be replicated as closely as possible to the half and full-scale model. This is something that has been lacking in the past years, however, it is a very important part of the project as a whole, especially in the long term when the full scale is actually ready to be built.

Written by: Julio de Pereda Banda

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