ME 14: Design and Fabrication

Spring 2020

ME 14, also known as Design and Fabrication, is a mechanical engineering class in which people form teams of four and work together to design a transmission gear system and an independent project.

Shooter Project Overview

For our independent project, my team and I worked on developing a shooter mechanism for accurately launching balls using a flywheel system. I was involved in the CAD design, sourcing, and ensuring that all our components would stand up to the stress on the system.

Transmission Project Overview

Our team designed a planetary gear system in order to transmit the maximum amount of torque from one rotating shaft to another.

FEA Analysis

One of my responsibilities for our transmission project was to analyze the acetal gears we selected to ensure that they would not fail under load. To do this, I used FEA in Solidworks and successfully showed that they would not deform under our loading conditions.

Course description: Introduction to mechanical engineering design, fabrication, and visual communication. Principles of mechanical engineering design are taught through a series of lectures and short group-based design projects with an emphasis on formal design reviews and team competitions. Course lectures address the strength properties of engineering materials, statistical descriptions of stress and strength, design safety factors, static and variable loading design criteria, engineering case studies, and the design of mechanical elements. Group-based projects include formal design reviews and involve substantial use of the machine shop and maker-space facilities, for the construction of working prototypes.

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