APSC 101 NOTES

Compiled by Mansur He


Table of Contents

Module 5 - Risk Management

Working with hand tools

Personal Protective Equipment

If a student is not wearing personal protective equipment, regardless of what they are doing. He/she needs to be asked to put on personal protective equipment as debris from other workstations is still a hazard.

If small incidents do occur, report to instructor.

If serious injuries occur, call emergency services and administer First Aid.

Tools

Video demonstration of the tools


Design Process

Recall the design process from APSC 101:
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  1. Identify stakeholders and needs.
  2. Generate ideas with wide range of diversity. Try not to fixate on an idea or make decisions to eliminate any ideas for now. Use C-Sketch to help with generating solutions.
  3. Screening > Ranking > Scoring. Use Weighted Decision Matrix to help making a decision.
  4. Make prototypes to test the solutions, if the design could be improved, go back to any of the previous stages.
  5. Implementation.

C-Sketch
The new modified C-Sketch variant uses 5 minutes for the first round, then 4 minutes for the second round, 3 minutes for the 3rd round…


Scientists, Engineers, and Technicians

“Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been.” - Theodore Von Karman

Scientists
Do research and develop theories of why things are the way it is. Mostly theoretical work.

Engineers
Applies the knowledge and theory into solving real world problems.

Technicians
Losers.

Scientists vs Engineers


Claw Project

Understanding Servo Motor

Servo motor diagram

Components in a servo motor

How Servo Motors Work


Risks

Risk is a combination of the likelihood of occurance (frequency) and the severity of the incident (consequence).
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Risk Assessment

Incident

Calculating Risk

Where Risk is the risk factor (lower is better), the frequency is the probability of the failure, and the consequences are the potential severity in the event of a failure.

If risk is not low enough, risk reduction measures should be implemented into designs.

Risk analysis

  1. Incident Definition and Identification
    • What counts as an incident?
    • What are the biggest unknowns?
  2. Incident and Scenario Analysis
    • What could happen due to the unknowns?
    • What could go wrong?
  3. Determine frequency score and consequence score.
    • What is the likely hood of an incident happening?
    • What is the result / consequence of the incident happening?
  4. Use a risk matrix to calculate the risk factor.
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To quantify risks:


Engineering Drawings

Isometric and Orthographic Views

Isometric

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Orthographic

OrthographicOrthographic View

In both isometric and orthographic drawings

Perspective

Perspective view resembles what we see with our eyes realistically.

PerspectivePerspective View

Drawings and Layouts

Hidden Lines

Hidden line

Center Marks and Center Lines

Center line

Bounding Box

Bounding Box

Third Angle Projection

Orthographic

Third angle projection

Title Blocks

Tile Block

Dimensioning

Dimensions

Dimension Lines

Dimension Lines

Dimensioning Rules

Choosing the Front View

The front view should be chosen so that it:


Giving Feedback

Good feedback encourages good behavior, enables improvement among peers. Bad feedback (either with bad feedback practices or bad timing) can lead to poor and ineffective results.

To make feedback helpful

7 Tenets of Giving Helpful Feedback

  1. Describe, don’t judge
  2. Be specific with details
  3. Honest and credible
  4. In terms of receiver’s needs
  5. Given in a timely way
  6. Receiver wants feedback
  7. Feedback is Actionable

… WIP …


Module 6 - Sustainability