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Idea 1 (selected) Prototype: Removable Storage

Idea 2 Prototype: Dispenser

This design experience has allowed me to improve on my ability to diverge to many solutions. Many of the designs that we converged from, including the dispenser idea depicted above, were generated by me. This also gave me more experience with converging and allowed me to become more comfortable with using decision making tools. Additionally, this project gave me a lot of hands-on experience with prototyping, as I took part in most of the detailed design decisions made and also personally created the two CAD prototypes above using solidworks.

 

The praxis II project as a whole gave me a lot of invaluable experience as an engineering designer, as it took me through an entire cycle of my engineering design process. The final result also gives an indication as to how far I've come this year as a designer: from very little engineering design experience to developing a functional, adequate solution that was appraised by the stakeholders themselves at the Praxis II showcase, as the stakeholders were looking for a modulated design that could be removed for the sake accessibility and smooth operations. As it happens, the paramedics had actually implemented something similar, a removable drug box that worksin a similar fashion to the removable box.

Praxis II Phase 2: Solution

 

 

This phase consisted of the solution to one of the problems proposed by the request for proposals in the previous stage. As such, the first two phases of my design process (understanding problem & establishing requirements) have already been completed, with this phase focusing on the following 4 steps of my design process: Diverging, Converging, Prototyping and Refinement.

 

The problem my team chose was to smoothen paramedics operations by improving accessibility. The main problems were that the pre-shift checkup time took too long and that supplies stored in the ambulance were too difficult to access. I began by using ideation tools to create various divergent solutions. My design team then took all the solutions our team had collectively proposed and converged to two solutions. After this, I developed medium fidelidy prototypes using CAD software. We then converged to one solution: A modular, removable box that could be restocked outside of pre-shift checkup time and was much easier to open and clean. CAD models of both ideas are shown below:

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