Planning Meeting with Trane

During the summer of 2015, Trane Manufacturing Engineer, Greg Sutton and high school DE instructor Mr. Johnston. met to discuss the parameters of a project that students could partner with Trane to create.

The outcome of the meeting was a plan to design and build an Autonomous Vehicle that would travel from Plant 4 to Plant 7 on the Trane campus. Logan students in the PLTW-Digital Electronics and Robotics course would design and build the prototype. Trane would define the technical parameters. This prototype would of course not be a full sized vehicle but a scaled down model to fit within the budget and constraints of the project. The main purpose is to give students the design/engineering opportunity and experience working with a business partner like Trane.

Trane Plant 4

The distance between Plant 4 and Plant 7 is approximately 1/2 mile.

Trane Plant 7