Praxis: Engineering Design for Dock Ice Build Up

For ESC102, as a team of 4 we had to find a community, talk to them and discover potential opportunities, select an opportunity, create an RFP, and then ideate a solution. The main purpose of this project is to frame a valid opportunity accurately using engineering requirements. By looking at reference designs and research, we identified what traits the ideal solution has, and specified them through requirements. We used a variety of converging and diverging tools to evaluate many designs.

This involved scaling down the dock and our prototypes. The video below shows a water pump prototype for pushing ice out of the docking area.

A lot of tools I used are documented in my engineering handbook

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