Budget and Schedule
Cost
My original budget I had hopes to not surpass $500. Unfortunately, I quickly figured I would go over that number after I spent more time into researching my needed materials and products. The ski alone cost around $440, while my material and hardware would come out to about $125. After taxes, shipping & handling, and a student discount, the new total came out to $614.49. This project has stayed on schedule with the set deadlines from the use of a Gantt chart. The design and build processes were finished by the end of fall and winter quarter, while the testing phase will be finished during the spring quarter of the school year.
The schedule is shown visually in the form of a Gantt chart. Gantt charts are beneficial towards illustrating a project schedule. These charts model the start and finish dates of key elements by using color identifiers, along with listing the estimated and actual times that were spent working on each task. Estimated times are set for each task and when a task is finished then the actual time gets put into the chart by the project manager/principal investigator. The first highlighted cell in a column represents that the task needs to be started that week, while the end of the highlighted cells represents the week the task shall be finished. The benefit of using such a chart allows a project to stay on track towards finishing at its set date; this also enforces the completion of tasks before new ones can be started. This allows a project to stay organized and should be referred to as often as possible to keep on track. For this project, it is shown that the total estimated time until completion is 190.4 hours, while it shall be finished by the end of the week of June 15, 2015.
Schedule
The MX SnowSki project crew would like to give appreciation to the MET program staff, Dr. Johnson, Professor Pringle, Professor Beardsley, Mr. Burvee, and Mr. LeBlanc for their time and dedication to the MET program and students. We would also like to thank and recognize Central Washington University for allowing us to utilize the machine shop, computer lab, and materials lab facilities to design, build, and test our project. Big thanks go out to Roy and Judy Liljestrom for their donation of $150.00 to the project. Without the support of the organization and individuals listed this project wouldn’t have been possible.