Daniel Ramirez, Lucas Chokanis, Lloyd Harrison, and Phillip Teten - Group 18

Project Description:

The Experimental Engineering Thermal Control System is a useful and practical thermostat to control a vehicle's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, or HVAC, systems. To achieve high efficiency of the entire system every component, design, algorithm, and the layout of the printed circuit board, or PCB, must be carefully chosen. This project will display the ambient temperature of a vehicle as well as two remote sensors, on an LCD and allow the user to set, view, and select the desired temperature using push buttons. The user will also be able to select which speed the blower motor will be on also using push buttons. This project was developed such that a team of researchers that are working to develop an efficient HVAC system can use this thermostat to implement their ideas, both hardware and software.

A special thanks goes out to the following people that helped point us in the right direction as well as those who financially supported this project. We are very grateful for the assistance of Dr. Thomas Wu and Michael Tullbane.