UIUC’s sophomore-level design and manufacturing course (ME 270: Design for Manufacturability) provides students with the fundamentals to DFM methodologies and tools, material selection, designing for primary manufacturing processes (cutting fundamentals, casting, forming, and shaping), designing with plastics (snap-fits, integral hinges, etc.), design for assembly (DFA) and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T). Throughout this course, I gained valuable insight to many core principles of mechanical engineering.
Throughout this course, I also worked on a course-long design and analysis project on a team of 5 students to perform a detailed redesign for manufacturability of an existing product.
The theme of my team’s project was performing a detailed redesign of the Tipeye 06A 3D printing pen. This was accomplished by redesigning a crucial component/sub-assembly to improve the overall manufacturing and assembly. From the start, we approached this product through the lens of customer comfort.
The following web portfolio displays all documents and work on this project.
Teammates
Max Asselmeier, Vishal Patel, Houston Malden, Ayrah Garcia