DEN 202

Today marked a significant amount of improvement on a class project. My group began to manufacture our structure for my DEN 202 Product Design course today. We have spent the last week feverishly improving the technical drawings of the project, and were all very happy to begin building it at last. In two hours today, we finished roughly two thirds of the project; which means we are on track to finish the project on time. We have two more two-hour sessions in which to complete our t-shaped aluminum structure. It stands about two meters tall, and uses a Warren truss for vertical stability. It is meant to carry more weight than an existing Queen Mary structure, which we have studied, and to weigh less. I think we have succeeded on both of these objectives, but it all depends on what the industry professionals think when we present our design on March 19. But I’m getting ahead of myself: right now, we need to just focus on finishing the structure tomorrow in our last two-hour manufacture sessions.