When someone says: “It should be a quick fix.”
What could possibly go wrong?
A highly professional student engineering team building locomotives, solving technical problems and occasionally remembering to sleep.
40
weeks of engineering
4
days without sleep
1
locomotive
∞
new problems
The evidence
Five engineers. One cable. Zero documentation.
The locomotive is ready. Probably.
Emergency meeting about the emergency meeting.
Advanced composite manufacturing.*
*Holding a sheet of material.
*Holding a sheet of material.
The face of someone who has seen the CAN bus logs.
Luxury accommodation provided by the engineering budget.
It moved under its own power. That counts as success.
Accurate historical records
Project planning
Team morale
Testing in a controlled environment
Work-life balance