Project Objective
Use the engineering design process to reverse engineer an object decided by your group, and if possible, redesign it.
Key Terms and Concepts
Reverse Engineering is a six-step process that isn't necessarily sequential that involves identifying a a purpose, which leads to focused research, developing a hypothesis, which serves as a basis for testing, disassembly, where documentation of parts, relationships, and connections are explored with sketches, notes, and labels, analysis, which include functional, structural, material, and manufacturing analyses, creating a report, and creating a redesign.
Types of Analysis:
Types of Analysis:
- Functional: Description of the scientific principle(s) of a mechanical or electrical system.
- Structural: Description of the purpose of each part and its relationship to other parts.
- Material: Description of the type, source, properties, and purpose of materials.
- Manufacturing: Description of the process that transformed the raw materials to the product with forming, separating, and joining methods.
- Forming Method: Heat/Pressure reshapes a material.
- Separation Method: Different forms of carving reshapes material; Subtractive Design
- Joining Method: Combining multiple objects together; Additive design
Gantt Chart
Report
Presentation
Reflection
Even though tasks were delegated, to ensure work progress, more formal team check-ins would allow everyone to be accountable for their work. By making the check-ins more formal, the Gantt Chart could've been used more often to hold work deadlines or adjust them, depending on progress. Another issue was also the focus during the brainstorming session, which led the team to choose a design too simple to reverse engineer. By working on other tasks in parallel, such as object research while the team was waiting to get objects, could have improved the depth of research. That being said, The general group chemistry was already good, which enabled our group to facilitate work outside of class with good communication during the early stages of the project, specifically with obtaining the object. Another aspect of the project that went well was job delegation, where tasks were pretty evenly divided which allowed everyone on the group to collaborate on the project with close to equal weight.
- Nihal Nazeem.
- Nihal Nazeem.