{"id":1004,"date":"2024-07-15T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:24:50","slug":"reflecting-on-our-design-study-projects-first-year-students-share-their-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/2024\/07\/15\/reflecting-on-our-design-study-projects-first-year-students-share-their-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on our Design Study projects: First-year students share their experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 juice:w-full juice:items-end overflow-x-auto gap-2\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"a4c16069-e7be-46a9-98bd-bcf198df0fd1\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 juice:empty:hidden juice:first:pt-[3px]\">\n<p class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1047 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2024\/07\/3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\"><strong>Just before the end of term, our first-year undergraduate students completed their Design Study projects. Congratulations all! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\"><strong>The Design Study project concludes the Engineering Practice module for our first-year undergraduate students. Over six months, teams of twelve students collaborated on the hands-on project, presenting their final designs to company directors.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0This year&#8217;s task was to create a hardness testing machine that compresses and indents a powder and then uses camera analysis to calculate the powder&#8217;s hardness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>In the blog post below, three of our students discuss their projects and what they have learned from the experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 juice:empty:hidden juice:first:pt-[3px]\">\n<p class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\"><strong>The Design Study project was designed by <span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr Eleonora D&#8217;Elia (module lead) and Dr Priya Saravanapavan (module co-lead) and is supported by our lab technicians, Ben Chan and Ivan Cespedes Fernandez.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 juice:empty:hidden juice:first:pt-[3px]\">\n<p><strong>Ellie Abel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\"><strong>What was your position in the team?<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"156\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1034\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2024\/07\/newseventsimage_1713882483389_mainnews2012_x1-5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">I was the Director of our company. My job involved identifying and integrating the company\u2019s strengths, maximising efficiency, minimising confusion and ensuring a high-quality product. I ensured constant communication between subgroups, led the structural design by coming up with a vision for our machine, contributed to SolidWorks, addressed engineering and testing issues, and ensured tasks were completed on schedule. Whilst also overseeing the assembly process and integrating any necessary structural adaptations. This resulted in effective production and fluid project completion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Can you tell us more about the project?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our design study project was to design a Vickers hardness testing machine that could compact, indent, and perform image analysis on a powdered sample. We worked collaboratively as a company to ideate, design, manufacture, reassess and enhance our system. As the project progressed, we began to learn each other\u2019s unique strengths. We worked as a human assembly line of individuals to technically draw, manufacture, analyse, automate and refine our initial concept into a functional machine. As a company, we prioritised product marketability, which we associated with the machine\u2019s efficiency, functionality, aesthetics, and robustness. As a result, our design was incredibly modular, allowing us to easily isolate components and carry out testing more efficiently.<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1035\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2024\/07\/IMG_1918-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As an engineer, you often design a system to fulfil its primary function. Then, you consider any external\/influencing factors that affect or could impact your system functionality before accounting for your selling point of &#8220;nice to haves&#8221;&#8230;\u2026but what you often neglect, and what we learnt to consider, is the method of processing. Is your design suitable for the method of processing you&#8217;ve selected? Is it feasible to use that method of processing? Is it cost and material-effective to use that method of processing? As a team, we learnt that behind every finished product there\u2019s a story to be told. The true art of engineering is to identify, adapt, analyse and enhance all aspects of machine functioning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you have for future students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start your automation Al component testing first and spend the rest of your time enhancing them. Your structure is purely casing and if your internal system doesn\u2019t work, you don\u2019t have a machine.<\/p>\n<h2>Freddy Liang<\/h2>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1030 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2024\/07\/240430_DG_ICLMat_029-scaled-e1721035544565-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What was your position in the team?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My role during the project was Chief Engineer. I led the design stage and did the majority of the 3D modelling. When my workload was too great, I assigned team members tasks since teamwork was key, and making everyone feel included in the project was important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell us more about the project?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For this year\u2019s design study project, our team put our heads together to design a hardness testing machine to test the hardness of powders. We needed to design a machine that first compacted the powder and then created an indent that could be used to analyse the hardness. As cost efficiency was our priority, we chose a design that used a rotational section in the middle to reduce costs.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1006 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2024\/07\/Team-Photo-Impactors-e1721035678339-300x208.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>What did you learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">I learnt that communication and organisation are extremely important when doing group work, especially in bigger groups such as this one. My 3D modelling skills have also improved, yet I think I still have room for improvement in the future. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The highlight for me was when all the project materials arrived and we began assembling the machine. It was very satisfying to see what we had envisioned on a computer screen come to life.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you have for future students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Don\u2019t feel discouraged during the project! Even if the task seems large at the beginning, working throughout the year and in smaller chunks can help you achieve something big.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Matt Cooke<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1014 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.23.41-e1721035476120-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What was your position in the team?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I was the Director of my group, which was a very hands-on leadership role. I ensured that everyone contributed effectively and we met our deadlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Can you tell us more about the project?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The design of our machine<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> involved a single linear actuator <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">which<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> had two tools &#8211; the compressor and the indentor &#8211; rotated underneath it in turn to be pushed to the powder. The tools attached to the actuator use a smart magnetic catch system to ensure alignment every time. Its design was constantly refined and modified throughout the process, right up till the days before the presentation! We were proud of how well this design functioned, and we won the prize for innovation <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">which<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> made our work feel appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What did you learn?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1005\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2024\/07\/Project-Photo-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>During the project, I learnt a lot about leadership in a large team and how <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">important<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> a good communication chain is. It helps even the work distribution among members and ensures everyone is in the loop and knows details about the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In addition, we collectively learnt a lot more about 3D printing and laser cutting, and we relied on our computer-aided design knowledge from the autumn term. We also analysed suitable materials for each part of our project, and cost and availability played <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">large<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> roles in the final decision-making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What advice would you have for future students?<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I recommend carefully choosing candidates<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for each role and playing to everyone&#8217;s strengths. Ultimately, good teamwork and communication are the foundations of a successful team, but it&#8217;s also important to have fun and enjoy the engineering experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Just before the end of term, our first-year undergraduate students completed their Design Study projects. Congratulations all! The Design Study project concludes the Engineering Practice module for our first-year undergraduate students. 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