Anniversary Bushfire Exhibit

Our team developed a travelling museum exhibit for the Fire Service Museum of Victoria to present the impact of major Victorian bushfires, and tell the stories of those affected by them. Our project group researched newspaper, book, and video archives and conducted interviews with firefighters. The gathered information was incorporated into the exhibit in the form of several displays, iPad-based interactive timelines, and museum artifacts. The Anniversary Bushfire Exhibit will be displayed in different locations across Victoria, thus, all exhibit components were designed to be portable and easily configurable to any room size

Fire Detection and Suppression Drone

The goal of this Major Qualifying Project (MQP) is to create a drone equipped with an automatic flame sensing and water spraying system to overcome the major problems faced during firefighting. These problems faced by firefighting include lack of knowledge about the building construction, fire intensity, and knowing about the building tenability and victim viability. Work on the drone deals with the proof of concept, exhibiting the scalability of this system for large scale fires. During testing of heights 10 feet or below, the drone performed most effectively. The drone that we built was capable of suppressing small fires at a distance of 4 feet from the fire. This is achieved with a custom-designed spraying system controlled by a flame sensor

Anniversary Bushfire Exhibit

Our team developed a travelling museum exhibit for the Fire Service Museum of Victoria to present the impact of major Victorian bushfires, and tell the stories of those affected by them. Our project group researched newspaper, book, and video archives and conducted interviews with firefighters. The gathered information was incorporated into the exhibit in the form of several displays, iPad-based interactive timelines, and museum artifacts. The Anniversary Bushfire Exhibit will be displayed in different locations across Victoria, thus, all exhibit components were designed to be portable and easily configurable to any room size.