Undergraduate engineering work
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MEC825: Mechanical Design (Winter 2008)
Mechanical HVAC drawings produced for the 2008 ASHRAE Student Design Competition. Drawings were produced by the group from Ryerson University of Mohsen Soltani, Robyn Ellis, Brandon Morris, Avishai Moscovich and I. We called our team RAMS Consulting to show our school spirit.
Excerpt from ASHRAE website: [This project] focuses on "right-sizing" HVAC equipment and systems to provide an energy efficient design for the [Nashville TN community centre]. Students are required to determine heating and cooling loads, and design an HVAC system for the recreation center while complying with ASHRAE Standards 55-2004, 62.1-2004 and 90.1- 2004.
Original architectural drawings belong to Thomas, Miller & Partners LLC
MEC626: Applied Finite Elements - ANSYS FEA Assignments (Winter 2006)
There were four individual labs given for this course, involving the ANSYS FEA Software, and are shown below. I hate plagarism, so I have watermarked things that I feel are integral to the lab and password-protected the documents so that copying/printing is not allowed.
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MEC431: Advanced Manufacturing - Monorail Project (Winter 2005)
Our design project was to design and build, using CNC machining, in conjunction with Mastercam and AutoCAD, a monorail capable of going fast, pulling a 3+ pound load up an incline, and tug-of-war against other competitors. I've included the overall results as a html document.
Our group name was Project D, based off the drift-racing animé series, Initial D. Since our project was more group based this time, i.e. everyone did equal work, I cannot take full credit for the work shown.
As can be seen below, we aimed to do well in 2 of the 3 competitions, those being torque based, to get as many points as possible. In order to do so, we maximized our gear ratios, given our original material. I think we had the largest gear ratios in the entire class!
We achieved that, and did quite well in the speed runs too by changing our gear ratios.
See http://stw.ryerson.ca/~m4yip/mec431.html for more details.
| Overall Results [html] | Results of the race day. 'Drag' indicates a drag race, 'Climb' a climb up an inclined rail while a 3 pound weight was attached to the rear of the vehicle, and 'Tug-of-War' was essentially that — a tug-of war between different groups. The competition was elimination-based, that meaning the winner goes on, losers eliminated, until there is only one victorious group. An interesting note was that we were the only group to scale the incline, as the vehicles of all the other groups stalled when the 3 pound mass was attached. |
| Final Report [pdf] (link down - contact me for details) | The report is an explanation of the entire project, our design criteria, and so forth. We received 100% on this report. |
MEC222: Engineering Design and Graphical Communication - Design Project (Winter 2003)
Our design project was to work in a group of 5, all being engineering freshmen, and to design a garden tool rack. Our design was based on a number of factors, and we weighed each according to a reference chart. Below are various points of our project that I was responsible for, that of the overall organization and technical drawings. Note: the bolded headings indicate a link to the respective works.
| Bill of Materials [pdf] | Bill of Materials with an isometric rendition of our product — done with AutoCAD 2004 |
| Assembly Drawing [pdf] | Assembly drawing of our product using 3 principal views — done with AutoCAD 2004 |
| NorthEast Isometric [pdf] | NorthEast isometric view of our product — done with AutoCAD 2004 |
| NorthEast Wirefraame Isometric Drawing [pdf] | NorthEast isometric view of our product with the hidden lines shown — done with AutoCAD 2004 |
| Design Journal [html] | An ongoing design journal from day 1 to the final day, presentation day. I've replaced the names of my group members with member* to ensure their privacy. Made with Netscape Composer ... back in the days when I was html-illiterate. |
High School
TDJ4M Technological Design - Architectural
This course contained a design project where my group and I decided to design and build a dealership. I've included more information at the following url, http://yip.dennis.googlepages.com/constructionproject2 , and here are some pictures from the scale model that I built. More pictures can be found on the site I just mentioned.
