What Was This Step?
As our team traverses further into our Capstone Project, we have completed Design Step 5: Design Defense For Your Original Product. The overall theme of this step was beginning our final product pitch. In our Design Defense, we created an outline of a project that also included the key steps we took in developing it. We began our website in this step, which takes the key selling points and functions of our product, and houses them in a public and eye catching way. For this step, we also continued working on our final CAD model of our product. Additionally, we did tutorials with the program Tinkercad to become more familiar with key engineering concepts and software.
This web-page includes our Project Design Defense, our website, and my reflection on this step. A traditional concepts section is not included, as concepts can be found in the project proposal of Design Step 2 and throughout the documents on this page.
This web-page includes our Project Design Defense, our website, and my reflection on this step. A traditional concepts section is not included, as concepts can be found in the project proposal of Design Step 2 and throughout the documents on this page.
Our Project Design Defense:
Our Website:
Reflection:
Overall, this step was an improvement from our last. One thing that went better was our time management. We were more on top of things this time and did our work in an appropriate time frame. This allowed us to boost the quality of our output. We have been able to account for this aspect and improve as a group. Another aspect that went well was how well we got along. There were never any major arguments that occurred between group members and whenever we disagreed on what way we should take the project, we were always able to compromise and move forward.
For all that went well, we had our shortcomings. Firstly, we didn't follow the website properly at all times. For example, our initial sketches weren't detailed enough which lost us points. We will work on this next time. Another failure of our project that has continued from the first part is making sure everyone is pulling their weight. Throughout the second part of our project, there were points where the work load was not being evenly shared or certain people weren't getting their parts done in time. This isn't the fault of anyone, but the failure of the group as a whole. This will be something we all need to work on moving forward.
For all that went well, we had our shortcomings. Firstly, we didn't follow the website properly at all times. For example, our initial sketches weren't detailed enough which lost us points. We will work on this next time. Another failure of our project that has continued from the first part is making sure everyone is pulling their weight. Throughout the second part of our project, there were points where the work load was not being evenly shared or certain people weren't getting their parts done in time. This isn't the fault of anyone, but the failure of the group as a whole. This will be something we all need to work on moving forward.