We have made significant progress on the Blandin project. Up-to-date: we have conceived many ideas for the hitch design and agreed on a current best solution, formed many ideas for hooking two carts together, created an interactive Excel Workbook that analyzes members of the cart, and modeled our current design in Pro/E.
Most of our design took place on a white board where we scribbled down ideas, erased, redrew, erased, redrew, and ended up with a final (or best at the time) design. When we go to record what we’ve done, all there is to record is our latest drawing. The problem with that is there isn’t any development of our design on paper—no starting point and improvements showing the design process.
The white boards are valuable tools, but they can hinder our ability to keep good records. I have found it more effective to limit the amount of work that is done on the boards and do more on paper. This will ensure that there is a reflective record of what has been done. It will also help provide evidence of the design process used and most importantly, it will provide a better reference to look back on.
Proofed by Austin and Christine
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