My name is Pedro Pereira and I just arrive at San Jose last sunday after 3 weeks on the road, from Florida to California, with 5 others participants of the Spartan Superway Project. We all are very excited about the project, is gonna be something the definietly will help to develop my engineer skills. Since I was in my 2nd college year in Brazil, I didn't had much contact with projects like this one before. The opportunities that I had to work outside classroom were few, and now I have to chance to do something really big and dive into the my engineer career. I'm excited with the project that I'm going to work with, with the university that I'm going to be part of and with the city the I'm going to live in. Professor Furman and Professor Ron were very recptive and I know I can count on them in this project! I hope we all can make a great team work together!
Those past weeks since I've started working with my team at the bogie, I've been learning so much about what mechanical engineering really is. We were having brainstorm and ideas about a new design for the bogie. This really made me think for solutions and improvements that would be useful, looking into the problems of the previous team. We are finishing the new design, adding the idea of a retractil jack, to make easier to take out and put it back again the bogie on the track. I hope this week we finish the model and start to work on its construction.
