Assembly Instructions for colosseum v1 (protocols.io.btsennbe)

Most engineering design projects focus primarily on the engineering fundamentals. Studying the business case or manufacturability of a design is often left for other courses, if at all. To address this gap, an existing mechanical engineering course project was modified by embedding the interdependent entrepreneurial dimensions. In the past, junior engineering students developed a reciprocating air engines over two semesters. The modified project extended the engineering fundamentals into an entrepreneurial venture. To accomplish this, students were asked to propose an air engine toy for middle schoolers. The proposed toy had to be assembled, provide a learning opportunity, and demonstrate utility. The students had to ensure the product appealed to those interested in the STEM fields. The students, working in groups, created renders of the final product, assembly instructions, and a guided worksheet for the kids to explore the underlying engineering concept. The groups produced a website with a video pitching their toy concepts. This case study exemplifies how any engineering endeavor can be modified to capture a more holistic simulation of the profession.

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Manufacturing Assembly Instructions; A Summary

Ergonomics ◽

10.1080/00140136908931061 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 370-382 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

S. A. KONZ ◽

G. L. DICKEY

Keyword(s):

Assembly Instructions ◽

Manufacturing Assembly

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Creating effective illustrations for pictorial assembly instructions

Information Design Journal ◽

10.1075/idj.15.2.01sch ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 97-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Peter Schumacher

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Sri Lanka ◽

Practice Guidelines ◽

Best Practice ◽

Diagnostic Testing ◽

Consumer Products ◽

Common Element ◽

Best Practice Guidelines ◽

Assembly Instructions ◽

The Creation

Pictorial assembly instructions are a common element of many consumer products however there is very little research published about their design, particularly regarding the creation of effective illustrations. This paper reviews published work that offers best practice guidelines for the design of pictorial assembly instructions. The application of the guidelines is discussed in the context of a project to design assembly instructions for a flat pack wheelchair for distribution in developing countries. The paper will present findings from diagnostic testing with users in Sri Lanka.

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Assembly Instructions Included

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution ◽

10.1002/9781118524756.ch13 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 297-316

Author(s):

Kenneth Weiss ◽

Anne Buchanan

Keyword(s):

Assembly Instructions

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Writing Instructions and How-to-do Manuals across Cultures

Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Communication ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-450-5.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 283-317

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Instructional Materials ◽

Units Of Analysis ◽

Writing Instructions ◽

The World ◽

Assembly Instructions

This chapter demonstrates how culture structures and is embedded in instructional manuals around the world. It examines two car repair instructions from Japan and the United States and two charcoal grill assembly instructions. It provides key units of analysis for professional communicators writing instructional materials for intercultural contexts.

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A review of open source ventilators for COVID-19 and future pandemics

F1000Research ◽

10.12688/f1000research.22942.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 218 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Joshua M. Pearce

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Systems ◽

Small Scale ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Bill Of Materials ◽

Assembly Instructions ◽

Funding Mechanisms ◽

Manufacturing Technologies ◽

Medical Infrastructure ◽

Future Work

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) threatens to overwhelm our medical infrastructure at the regional level causing spikes in mortality rates because of shortages of critical equipment, like ventilators. Fortunately, with the recent development and widespread deployment of small-scale manufacturing technologies like RepRap-class 3-D printers and open source microcontrollers, mass distributed manufacturing of ventilators has the potential to overcome medical supply shortages. In this study, after providing a background on ventilators, the academic literature is reviewed to find the existing and already openly-published, vetted designs for ventilators systems. These articles are analyzed to determine if the designs are open source both in spirit (license) as well as practical details (e.g. possessing accessible design source files, bill of materials, assembly instructions, wiring diagrams, firmware and software as well as operation and calibration instructions). Next, the existing Internet and gray literature are reviewed for open source ventilator projects and designs. The results of this review found that the tested and peer-reviewed systems lacked complete documentation and the open systems that were documented were either at the very early stages of design (sometimes without even a prototype) and were essentially only basically tested (if at all). With the considerably larger motivation of an ongoing pandemic, it is assumed these projects will garner greater attention and resources to make significant progress to reach a functional and easily-replicated system. There is a large amount of future work needed to move open source ventilators up to the level considered scientific-grade equipment, and even further work needed to reach medical-grade hardware. Future work is needed to achieve the potential of this approach by developing policies, updating regulations, and securing funding mechanisms for the development and testing of open source ventilators for both the current COVID19 pandemic as well as for future pandemics and for everyday use in low-resource settings.

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Enhancing Engineering Students' Performance on Design Task: The Box of Parts

Journal of Mechanical Design ◽

10.1115/1.4036128 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 139 (5) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Diana Bairaktarova ◽

William Graziano ◽

Monica Cox

Keyword(s):

Professional Practice ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Engineering Application ◽

Control Group ◽

First Year ◽

Experimental Conditions ◽

Design Task ◽

Correlational Design ◽

Assembly Instructions ◽

Mechanical Objects

Most definitions of engineering give machines and mechanical objects a central role. Engineers are makers and users of mechanical objects in their environment. Research supports the notion that interactions with engineered artifacts enhance engineering learning. This study introduces a task simulating a real-world engineering application and uses this task to examine how aptitudes, interests, and direct manipulation of mechanical objects influence performance. We hypothesized that engineering students would generate better assembly instructions when they had the box of component parts (BOP) than when they had the engineering drawing only. We also hypothesized that student's mechanical aptitude (MA) and interests in things each would interact with experimental condition's impact on performance. First-year engineering students (N = 383) created assembly instructions in a mixed experimental and correlational design. A random half was assigned to create instructions with a drawing only, whereas the other half created with both a drawing and a box of component parts present. Assembly instructions were evaluated by professional engineers blind to experimental conditions. They rated instructions from the BOP group as superior to those coming from the control group. Students with greater mechanical aptitude received better evaluations, but there was no evidence the experimental variable was moderated either by mechanical aptitude or by thing orientation (TO). This study suggests that mechanical objects can enhance engineering instruction, especially when they are aligned with professional practice.

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