Curated design articles and technical guides tagged with #student-projects.
Practice mechanical design engineer handover skills with a worked clearance stack, a sourced draft check, and the decisions a manufacturer needs before tooling.
Learn what a manufacturing specification includes and audit your student hardware handoff package with a worked manifest that catches revision and material gaps.
A fictional desk critique turns each comment into a question and the next check. Scores, ratings, and a winning concept stay blank.
A Pugh sheet marks each concept against a baseline. A weighted sheet multiplies a rating by a weight. This hardware exercise leaves both tables blank until a check exists.
Write a one-page product design brief before any user interviews. A desk-accessory starter shows how to tag observed notes, sources, assumptions and unknowns.
A design brief states the problem. A design specification lists testable criteria. This worksheet maps one desk-accessory need to a check, and leaves unmeasured limits as OPEN.