Space Ship Project
Design Brief
This project is about designing a space ship on a design software called Inventor. It will be done by watching a step-by-step video on how to make the different parts of a simple UFO. The skills needed to do this project are dimensions, technical sketching, brainstorming, and knowledge of the Inventor program. During this project I will be designing a laser part, a wing part, and an ellipse roof part. I will then assemble it all together to form the final space ship. During this process I will learn the different tools that are available to me using Inventor.
Space Ship #1
New Part: Nitrous Oxide Boosters
Conclusion
In Intro to Engineering Design, I was able to learn a lot about how a enginerr records his everyday works. I was able to learn about the six steps to the design process. We then learned how to use a computer program called ¨inventor,¨ I had a hard time at first trying to understand how to work the whole thing. I fell behind at first but was then able to creat a roof, gun, and wing for a UFO based off of Mr. Ganters videos. I then was able to figure out how to add details, colors, text, ingravings, add parts and much more to the UFO. I was then able to creat my own custom part for the UFO. After that, I was able to learn how to create and take care of an eninerring notebook, To do so you have to be able to write the date everyday, sign the top and bottom of the notebook, add a learning target everyday, add pictures showing my progress on the UFO, sign those pictures half on and half of to prove i put those in there, have someone sign it, and finally, Write and record what things you have done on that day. Overall, I learned a lot in this class and I am excited to come back and do it again in the spring.
Reverse Engineering Project
Design Brief
This is the second Trimester of IED and we are starting to go deep into inventor and engineering itself. In this project we will be taking a part from a company known as Precision Plus Inc. and reverse engineer the part. The reverse engineering process is to take apart something and work backwards to improve, fix, investigate, discovery, or documentation. Mason Steinmetz and I were asked with taking apart a valve assembly and diagramming it and putting it into our engineering notebooks. After this we are to use Inventor (a tool that we learned to use first trimester to recreate the parts) to assembled the valve on the computer and created a exploded view. At the end of our project we are expected to present to a professional engineer.
Parts Of Valve Assembaly
Engineering notebook
In our engineering notebooks we recorded and documented everything we did, this way no one is able to steal my work and people can clearly see when something was done and how.
Conclusion
This project's goal was to take apart a valve system and recreate it on Inventor. We were able to accomplish this task by the time it was due even with the problem of a few setbacks. We were also supposed to increase the part and we accomplished this by changing the material from chrome plated brass to tin. The chrome plated brass needed to be colored chrome and coated so it would not rust so we decided to switch it to tin by making material cheaper, faster to make, and still have the same structural integrity. Overall this was a great project improving my engineering skills by a lot and potentially making the part even better.
2017 Final Project
Dog Wheelchair
This project consists of a team of Tommy Z, Mason Stebnitz, Alec Birbaum and myself. This is my first year taking a PLTW course and I can state that is was hard and we have learned a lot. At the beginning of the year I knew nothing or even knew there was ever a thing called inventor or the basics to engineering. Now that school is coming to an end I can say for sure that I know the correct procedures and how to design a part on inventor. For this last project, Mr. Ganter let us on our own for this to find a problem and solve it by ourselves with no help what so ever. When we started we had a lot of ideas, such as a fidget spinner or fixing a slide to a Co2 airsoft gun. Finally an idea dawned upon us why don't we create a cheap effective dog wheelchair for our good friend, Sam Bosman, dog who has two paralyzed back legs.
Design Constraints
To start we had many constraints such as money, materials, and the physics of the operation. Perhaps the biggest of setbacks was that we never had the chance to in person see the dog. We had to get the owner to measure their dog at a professional veterinarian place.
Total List of Constraints
-Roughly 11 inches wide
-Roughly 17 inches long
-Must be blue or black
-Approximately 12 lbs.
-Roughly a month of time to complete this
-Has to support 35 lbs.
Total List of Constraints
-Roughly 11 inches wide
-Roughly 17 inches long
-Must be blue or black
-Approximately 12 lbs.
-Roughly a month of time to complete this
-Has to support 35 lbs.
Design Brief
We have decided to use PVC for the frame of our wheelchair. We decided on this because it is light, cheap, and also easy to manipulate while providing a degree of strength. We are using 3/4 inch PVC for the frame and then for the straps that will hold and position the dog we ordered from amazon a harness for walking a dog that surrounds the chest and then just a padded strap to hold the back of the dog.
My Engineering Notebook
Decision Matrix
Strength Cost Size
1/2 inch PVC- 6 9 10
3/4 inch PVC- 6 8 9
1 inch PVC- 7 6 7
1 1/2 inch PVC- 8 6 4
2 inch PVC- 9 5 2
Based on this decision matrix we decided to use both the 3/4 inch PVC and the 1 inch PVC.
1/2 inch PVC- 6 9 10
3/4 inch PVC- 6 8 9
1 inch PVC- 7 6 7
1 1/2 inch PVC- 8 6 4
2 inch PVC- 9 5 2
Based on this decision matrix we decided to use both the 3/4 inch PVC and the 1 inch PVC.
Final Wheelchair
Summary
I very much enjoyed the outcome of IED. There were a lot of complications to this project but we were able to overcome them. We were able to make something out of nothing and turning a joke into a useful wheelchair that actually saves money and was a good experience to make. I personally wasn't able to be there to put the wheelchair together but i was able to come up with the plans to make this wheelchair. We ran into a few complications being the PVC pipe I brought in was to thick and there were some troubles in making this wheelchair. But, we were able to find smaller PVC and fix the glue to make a good, reliable, sturdy, working wheelchair. Overall I enjoyed being let loose to see what we could do and had a good learning experience while also having a good time.