ME2101 Assignment on Design Process 2017

Problem Statement:

Imagine you are the chief designer of a design team in a design centric
manufacturing company that designs and manufactures useful devices for
profit. The market research department in your company has identified the
following products that are potentially needed by consumers and hence may
bring profit to the company. These products are:

(1) A human-powered people moving system to reduce carbon footprint in

transportation;

(2) A device for first mile/last mile travel between home-and-work and
work-and-home;

(3) A manual washing/drying machine to save energy;

(4) A mechanical product to enhance the life of the elderly;

(5) A cloth-drying system for high-rise dwellers;

(6) A system that enables user to climb up/down stairs at home;

(7) A water bicycle for leisure/competition use;

(8) An automatic rain sheltering system for bus stops;

(9) An automatic dog exerciser;

(10) A better grass cutting machine.

Your design team is required to select one of these devices and finally submit
a design proposal to the company management for approval by the due date
stated below. As no further information is provided by the market research
team, your design team has the responsibility but flexibility to identify the
specific needs, prescribe your own constrains, establish the detail
specifications, etc and to design the device chosen.
 Notes:
(1) This is a small group assignment with group size of minimum two
maximum three persons. You are free to form your own design team.

(2) Your submission should include pictures of the product in the form of
photographs or free-hand sketches or engineering drawings to illustrate
your design and discussion. There should be sufficient details in your
report to describe how the design works even though no detail design
(like calculations of stresses, exact dimensions, etc) is necessary.

(3) The assignment shall be graded as follows:

i. Design of the product = 65%

ii. Workability of the design, design factors considered, etc = 20%
iii. Presentation of the report = 15%

Submission Details:
Submission date: by 6pm Monday 27 February 2017.

Length of report: The length of your report, with words plus

drawings/diagrams/sketches/photographs, is prescribed as follows in terms of
maximum number of pages: For group with two members 8 and for group
with three members 10 A4 sided pages or equivalent. Cover pages and
appendices, if any, are not counted in this page length restriction.

Format of report: No format is prescribed, but wordy reports are usually not
welcome.

Please submit your assignments to Mechanical Engineering Department

Office.