Friday, February 4, 2011

Genetic Counseling

Today we were introduced to Pert charts and Gannt Charts. These are useful tools in time management for engineering projects. They are commonly found in many industrial applications and are named after Henry Gannt who published his charts in the 1910s.
The main concept is to organize projects into independent chunks which can be worked on in parallel or in series. series activities will follow each other on the time line horizontally, and parallel projects can be arranged vertically.
The following is an example of a Gannt chart.


Using the concept of a Gannt chart, Mitchell and I were able to separate our responsibilities and complete the major structural components of our competition robot in a few hours. The result is the Genetic Counseling robot!

The rest of our time was spent mounting and testing the sensors. At one point, the color sensor's ground rail cracked and it had to be re-soldered. Luckily, it is now completely functional. Watch out RSSC we are coming for your trophies!

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