Personal contribution to the design project in terms of project management, execution, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, revising and improving the design.
When it comes to a significant project such as ME3103’s project, usually, I tend not to take the lead as my leadership style tends to be towards demanding, and it might be seen as negative gestures to some group members. Hence, Danish took the position as a group leader. During the second last week of December, which was the administrative week for ME3103 project selection, since most of my team members were overseas, I took the lead to complete the group registration. By using Outlook, I obtained their NUS email address and full name and only sought their assistance for matriculation numbers. For the project selection, I scanned through the project list thoroughly and informed them of my project choices. They seem to have their desired project choices as well, but eventually, we need to come to a consensus of only one project selection. Thus, I took the liberty to list down my project choices, and they followed my steps by registering their desired project choices. Eventually, we settle on one project selection, which is Slide&Hide Interactive Door Bracket. After the project selection, unfortunately, we need to compete on getting the project by selling our ideas to the Managing Director (MD) of Slide&Hide. Immediately, I worked on the problem statement, but unfortunately, I found difficulties understanding the problem report given. Thus, I made my way to their office and sought their assistance. After getting some clarifications of the problem statement, I worked on developing the interactive bracket by sketching on an A3 paper. Nearing to the presentation date, I furnished up a PowerPoint slide encompassing all the requirements needed for the presentation. In summary, with regards to project management, I initiated the group registration, group project selection, and performance slides to be presented to Slide&Hide.
Concerning product execution, I took the liberty to create parts needed for our product on Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, CREO Parametric 6, and also furnished up the engineering drawings necessary for the parts. Additionally, I executed load/stress testing on the assembly of our complete product to further understanding the capabilities of our product design. Equipped with engineering drawings parts and CAD drawing, I presented it to Mr. Stanley, Prof Woon, and eventually, Slide&Hide’s Managing Director (MD), Mr. Andrew. With the load/stress analysis results obtained previously, I further supported our part dimensions needed for the prototype fabrication to maximize our product’s abilities. After getting MD’s approval for the product and aspects, instantly, we sent all the engineering drawings to several mechanical vendors and received a quotation for our product fabrication a few days after.