Activity

  • This semester during my capstone project we had not anticipated a few delays, and learned a couple lessons. As a team we added additional tests to validate our design, but did not sit down and discuss all possible risks. During testing, one of our 3D pieces that we printed as an attachment to a force sensor kept breaking under the required load to test our product. We did not discuss the 3D printed material strength in comparison to what we had to test. This resulted in delays of our tests as we needed to 3D print new pieces before we could conduct our test. The lesson learned is that there should always be risk analysis and group discussion done on smaller tasks.