Computer Aided Design
Today, was my first lesson of the Chemical Product Design and Development module. In this module, we learnt that we would be able to gain various skills and techniques in chemical product development and experimental designs, and our end goal was to create a prototype of a chemical device as a team. For the first part of the lesson, we formed our groups within the class, appointed our roles and set some ground rules. Our module content consisted of 4 parts: Design and Prototyping skills: Computer Aided Design (CAD) Laser cutting 3D Printing Embedded programming Idea Refinement Project Management Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis We looked at past year capstone projects to understand what we could make with laser cutting, and watched a video on a Negative air ion disinfection device, which was the capstone project made by our seniors in 2020. We also watched videos on the very diverse objects that could be made with a 3D printer, and what interested me the most was th