BIO

Adin Weatherby is a sophomore electrical engineering student at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He earned his associates Degree from Eastern Florida State College under the early enrollment program in high school, and was accepted into the College of Engineering his freshman year. During the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, he was able to volunteer at the Center for Advanced Power Systems and earn valuable real-world experience and open up further opportunities.

Scale Replica of a Zero-Emission Electric Aircraft - IZEA

Abstract

The Integrated Zero Emission Aviation (IZEA) project is funded by the NASA University Leadership Initiative for the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) to develop a superconducting power delivery system for flight operations over a five-year span. The undergraduate students in the program worked to demonstrate and realize the constraints of the power delivery network by developing a model of the aerial vehicle to demonstrate the function of the aircraft with STEM outreach in mind and to help design the final system. This model is useful for defining and designing the physical structure of the power delivery system that will be assembled as superconductor research for the IZEA project progresses at CAPS. Tools such as Creo and Carbide Create were used to design and produce prototypes to evaluate the efficacy of proposed cable system schematics.

Keywords: High Temperature Superconductor (HTS), Modeling, Design software