Design and Manufacturing II, 2.008
Spring 2012
Mechanical engineering course focusing on the physics and stochastic nature of modern manufacturing processes. We studied the balance of cost, rate, quality, and flexibility in labs and in a team project in which students designed and built a batch of 100 yo-yos. Focusing on DFM practices, my team designed designed a yo-yo that rejected the common connector pin to allow ball bearings to cross through the middle. We designed and machined the tooling for plastic injection and thermoformed parts and actually manufactured 100 yo-yos using commercial grade plastic injection and thermoform machines. I was responsible for the design of the thermoformed cover of the yo-yo and all calculations regarding its quality. In this class we used Solidworks to CAD and MasterCam to create the g-code to run the CNCs.
