308: Fuel Pump Simulator Board

Our team was asked to redesign a printed circuit board (PCB) that was an older design and could not be controlled by a computer.

We needed to design a new circuit board that would be fully controllable through a computer and without a connection to a computer. The board would need to match all the functionality of the original board. Finally, a casing would need to be designed to protect the board. This redesigned board would be used to make testing other products easier. The board would simulate up to eight fuel pumps and the flow of fuel from them, allowing engineers to build tools to measure amounts of gas being pumped without needing to bring an actual fuel pump into their working environment. Our simulator design needed to account for a variety of situations, allowing users to work with imperfect fuel pumps. 

We successfully created a Fuel Pump Simulator Board by crafting a parts layout, soldering them to a PCB and writing code that would be installed onto the board. We made an 3D-printed enclosure to protect the board from damage. After testing, we found that it functioned as intended. We created a functioning simulator board with the capabilities our sponsor needed. The board also had extra features the original did not have.