Beyond engineering: The broader considerations of The Well of Maxwell
Our project includes considerations for education, safety, and socioeconomic inequalities. Since our goal is to teach students electromagnetism and inspire them to explore the field further, we want the educational modules to be accurate, authoritative, and effective. Moreover, we want learning to occur in a safe environment, so our system must be robust and not harm the user. Lastly, we want to provide a way for students who don’t have the resources to experiment with E&M to learn by doing.
Risks and Risk Management
One of the most significant risks would be our ability to convert the hardware stimuli (voltage source polarity, direction of induced current and magnitude of induced voltage) to digital data that will be taken in by our Web Application. This is the major connection between the hardware and software aspects of our project. This is the main blocker for our project progress, since the components we use to build the experiments will change depending on how we digitize the hardware data. As a contingency, we could use a digital multimeter with a built-in Web Interface or we could attempt using ADALM and Scopy, though these methods would be more ‘clunky’.
Changes
The design of the system has not been changed since last week.
Progress
We made a rough block diagram with regards to the design of our system and we intend to use it to guide us throughout our project.
We also made a wireframe specifically for the web application and built the skeleton for the web application, and partially implemented OAuth admin logins, welcome page, and basic home page. 
According to our current schedule, we should be finalizing the hardware to digital data conversion mechanism within the next two weeks, while starting on a rough design of our two experiments such that we can finalize the values of the circuit components we need. Additionally, the rough build for the web app without any integrated components should be finished within the next two to three weeks. That will allow us to purchase components within 2-3 weeks for the experiment setup.