Reverse engineering
For our first senior engineering project, the objective was to look at a mechanical object and completely deconstruct it. Along the way, we did research about every component to the machine to learn more about how it works. Our machine of choice was an electric pencil sharpener. Our idea for improving the pencil sharpener included: making it battery powered, and making it portable. This would allow people to share their pencils quickly on the go. To make these improvements, we had to break apart the sharpener and figure out what each individual part did. We created a flow chart to help us remember what goes where and a blueprint to make sure everything works properly. Next, we developed our final plan for making the sharpener portable.
Below are documents that we created during our project.