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ENG53C Engineering Mechanics and Design - Wrexham Glyndwr University

Assessment - Pro-Kart Design

Outcome 1: Demonstrate an ability to recognise, identify, define and produce specifications for a set of engineering problems and communicate the results effectively to a client

Outcome 2: Identify and with a minimum of guidance, analyse the data provided and select appropriate methods/techniques to produce an optimum and sustainable design

Outcome 3: Appraise the social, ethic, economic, and environmental implications of the design process and awareness of the relevant legal and contractual issues.

Assessment task

A customer has approached Glyndwr University requesting that students design and develop an innovative system that would allow users with some disabilities to race a Go Kart (Pro-Kart).

A Pro-Kart is available in the E6 workshop for you to measure and evaluate.

You are then to present your proposals along with prototype and full calculationwork to the customer for their consideration and further developments.

The customer agreed that the prototype can be virtual (animation or video of a mock-up model...).

The design brief discussed with the customer has allowed to highlight the main function of the system and is as follow:

"Design a system allowing a Pro-Kart to be driven by a person with only use of one arm. It should allow the user to steer, accelerate and brake using only a stick at the centre of the kart. No handle, nothing else but a 2 degree of freedom stick. The system must be easy to maintain and install with no irreversible modification of the chassis, no special tools or training."

The full PDS (Product Design Specification) and the details of the Criteria Weighting matrix that have been developed in group during the normal timetabled session are available on Moodle under the assessment section.

You are then tasked to :
Q1. Conduct a background research (group or individual research is acceptable), your ideas and finding, once reviewed, collated and moderated, must be published in the "module café" section on Moodle as well as in your report,
Q2. Briefly discuss and justify the Criteria Weighting matrix selection process that has been processed during the timetabled session,
Q3. Brainstorm possible solutions with the group and conduct a thorough analysis of the spec. (group or individual research are acceptable)
Q4. Evaluate the solutions (from a PDS point of view),
Q5. Using a strong and rigid evaluation process (the criteria method developed in the lecture notes), select the best solution then,
Q6. Optimise the selected solution,
Q7. Conduct development work,
Q8. Test,
Q9. Evaluate, then,
Q10. Develop the chosen idea (to prototype stage).

Attachment:- Engineering Mechanics and Design.rar