Soren Sabet Sarvestany

         For part of a design activity in Praxis I, my group and I were tasked with designing a solution that would prevent mugs from leaving liquid rings. The design brief can be found here. My group and I created a conceptual design report, in which we recommended a solution to the client. The conceptual design report can be found here. 

 

          This was my first design experience where I worked in a group. By this point, my engineering design course had already provided me with a framework I could use to tackle design processes, and my group and I applied this framework when we were designing our solution. This framework served as the foundation for my own engineering design process.

 

          When my group first recieved the brief, we thought that the problem was stupid and irrelevant and not worth our time. Our instructors thought differently however, and we all wanted to pass, so we used our design processes to begin converging onto a solution. In a very short period into the activity,  we knew what our solution would be, and we designed our conceptual design report to converge onto that solution. In this conceptual design report, each group member had to generate one conceptual design that would eliminate liquid rings. The solution I developed was a sliding cap (Figures 1 and 2). Details can be found in the conceptual design report.