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Mechanical Engineering, Design Research

PRINCIPLE OF ENGINEERING MACHINE (POEM)

In Engineering, prospective students are often daunted by the heavy course load that comes with an engineering curriculum and are deferred by the thought of endless arrays of mundane calculations. With the expansion of University of Pacific’s School of Engineering and Computer Science, a new focus on outreach was realized. POEM won 2nd place in our senior project class.

Skills Applied

  • Rapid Prototyping

  • Mechatronics

  • Machine Design

  • Mechanics & Dynamics

  • Circuits

Lessons Learned

  • The right team is everything:  For this project, I had an amazing team.  We all worked and vibed together very well.  We easily fell into the best-suited roles for each of us and when another role needed to be filled, every one of use was capable and willing to fill it.

 

  • Use the right tools: We struggled with the aesthetics of our project with our limited time constraints and the available tools in our shop.  I feel the idea was great but we fell short of presentation.  I definitely would go back and explore different materials and manufacturing methods to make it look and feel more aesthetically pleasing.

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