The goal of this Major Qualifying Project was to formulate and compare multiple new designs for the electrical harness in Caterpillar's medium wheel loader vehicles. After weighing cost and other factors, the project team suggested that Caterpillar use a harness design with stainless steel coated fiberglass sleeve for insulation material, and the combination of a Velcro-jacket with Teflon tubing for insulation structure. Students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute traveled to Wuhan, China to form a team with students from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which together worked with engineers at Caterpillar Suzhou Co. Ltd to find design solutions.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Beswick, ChanLing Paul
• Ciliotta Bezada, Giuseppe

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-082411-192110

Advisor

• Rong, Yiming

Year

• 2011

Center

• Wuhan, China Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• Caterpillar Suzhou Co., Ltd.

Date created

• 2011-08-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright