Analysis and Design of Engineering Systems

For this project, my team and I were instructed to model and find the loss coefficient through a nozzle with a steady-state tank system. This project was focused on teaching students how to begin modeling real life objects and then use that information to calculate various parameters for that model. In this project, my team split the work up evenly and I was tasked with developing the model for our tank system using MATLAB. In order to make sure that our model was accurate, we were instructed to work with teams that used a non-steady-state model. The purpose of this was that in the end, we should all end up with a similar answer to the question in hand. Therefore, I had to communicate with other teams and validate our results. You can see this collaboration in page 12 of our design report. This project was also our first technical report that we had to write during our academic career. This taught us how to change our writing to a much more professional style. This is also a style that we are likely to use later on in our engineering career. Overall, this project was very beneficial because it showed my team and I how to accurately model a complex system as well as write a professional document.

Linked below is page 12 of our technical report. Contact me if you are interested in reading the entire document.

Ades RH330.pdf

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