Mechanical engineering: paper bridge and more.
outside of the 3d printed assignment you can see here we had to do some more physics related assignments. In these assignments we were asked to look at material properties. First we were asked to do some simple stress tests on different materials through just putting some weight on it and measuring the forces. After that, we combined this knowledge with some force calculations on constructions by creating a paper bridge. During this assignment I found that our group collaborated quite well. I find it really nice that we can discuss everyone’s ideas, and combine all of our separate strengths to get a good result, you could say we had good chemistry. The calculating part of this assignment was by far the most complicated part of this quartile for me. I found it quite difficult because of the lack of theory we got, how we were supposed to continue with our calculations. Despite the difficulty, I still find this part of mechanical engineering really interesting and nice to learn about. Therefore I might choose this as an elective in the future to go more in depth on mechanical engineering.
The final assignment in this course was design4movement. The idea behind it was that we had to link 3 mechanical movements together. This assignment was right up my alley. Creating these movements was quite easy, but in the collaboration I struggled quite a bit. I found that I sometimes have trouble presenting my ideas to others, because I understand something quickly doesn’t mean others do. All the more reasons to work on my sketching and visualizations.
