🏆 Best Project Award – Third Place
The team has helped update the current STAR Cabinet Trainer that Constellation uses in addition to implementing a virtual component of that Cabinet for more versatile and robust training opportunities
Sponsored by: Constellation Energy
Team Members
Zachary Lambertus Steven Trott Logan Baliestrieri Xuhong Lin Justin Quezada Rahul Kilaru
Instructor: Kyusun Choi
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Project Summary
Overview
The team has been tasked with making improvements to the Constellation power plant training device. This device is a cabinet that has different switches and buttons on the front and in the back has a computer that contains all the different scenarios that the trainer can provide to the trainee. A scenario is a sequence of tasks (buttons and switches) that the trainee must do in an accurate and time sensitive manner. This helps train the people that are going to be involved in the power plant. This is delivered in the form of a virtual training cabinet and the updates of the physical cabinet
Objectives
– Update STAR Cabinet Trainer
– Create Virtual STAR Cabinet Trainer
– Document Processes to make future improvements/changes easier to implement
Approach
The team used software and hardware integration in order to complete both deliverables. There was SPI testing, C++, QT, Arduino IDE, Linux used in order to update the scenario code for the existing trainer and also for the development of the virtual cabinet
Outcomes
We were able to design more iterations of the virtual and physical cabinet to fit the necessary added functionality that Constellation energy needed in order to better train their employees to manage the nuclear power plant more effectively, efficiently and safely.