Project Description
For the Reverse Engineering project we were tasked with tearing down an object of our choosing. My group chose a small, portable bluetooth speaker. The question that we asked ourselves during this project is: How does each subsystem in the speaker work together to form the entire system? In order to answer this question we took detailed notes on each individual part of the speaker. We disassembled the speaker down to each component so that we could analyze how each component works and how they come together to form the entire product. We separated our analysis into four different categories: functional, structural, material, and manufacturing. Our findings can be found in our Google Slides presentation and in our written report below.
Presentation:
Written Report:
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Concepts:
Reverse Engineering - method used to analyze an existing product to see how it is made, and possibly how to re-make or improve it.
Invention - design work that creates something new.
Innovation - improving an existing product or idea.
Teardown - disassembly of a product/item for the process of reverse engineering.
Functional Analysis - analysis that deals with function of different parts, how they work together, and the scientific principles that are related to these parts/how they function.
Structural Analysis - analysis that deals with how the parts are supported and connected together, and the purpose of each part.
Materials Analysis - analysis that answers what materials were used and why they were used.
Manufacturing Analysis - analysis that determines how the product was made, how raw materials were made into the finished product.
Invention - design work that creates something new.
Innovation - improving an existing product or idea.
Teardown - disassembly of a product/item for the process of reverse engineering.
Functional Analysis - analysis that deals with function of different parts, how they work together, and the scientific principles that are related to these parts/how they function.
Structural Analysis - analysis that deals with how the parts are supported and connected together, and the purpose of each part.
Materials Analysis - analysis that answers what materials were used and why they were used.
Manufacturing Analysis - analysis that determines how the product was made, how raw materials were made into the finished product.
Reflection:
This project interested me very much because it was different to have to engineer things the other way. Starting out with a product and tearing it down to find out how it works. Our group worked well with time management because we distributed the work evenly between group members. This worked effectively because we finished the project on time. We also did well on describing each component of the speaker in depth in each of the four analysis categories. The descriptions were detailed yet informative to the audience. One thing that we could have done better was create clearer sketches of the object and each of its components. We could then add those sketches to our presentation. Another thing that we could have done better was condensing our manufacturing analysis. Our presentation had too many words for the manufacturing portion and it could be condensed better. Overall this project was a great success and I can't wait for the next one.