Building a Portfolio:What it is. Why have one.How it is done.MIT Ideation Lab / November 1, 2010PrecapWhat is it?Why should I have one?How do I create it?But first, a mini quiz!What are the five rules of making a portfolio?just kiddingThe notecards are for you to make notes and jot down questions.What?visual representation of your work, complementing your resumea physical book?not necessarily.could be a pdf, a website, anythingconsider your audienceWhy?required for your new job or schoolefficientonly way to show design detailexample of your own design workTiffany Tseng, MIT 2009Inside a portfolioHow?don’t worry about making the actual portfolio now, but......start documenting now!sketchesCADprototypesgoalsstoryboardsdiagramsanalysisproduct specstestingdesign notebook!Things to collect:Rebecca Smithis a Mechanical Engineer from MITcurrently working at D-Lab.Design Portfolios for Engineers!Rebecca Smith•You have an advantage! •It may take a long time.•It’s okay if you don’t have a lot of sketches.•Presentation is important.What does it mean to make a design portfolio as an engineer?ThermoSmart was created in Product Engineering Process, the senior Mechanical Engi-neering design class. During the class we went through the design process from brain-storming to producing a functioning alpha prototype on a $6500 budget.This year’s product theme was ‘the home,’ and my team of 17 students was assigned the area of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning as our focus. We created thermoSmart, a wireless home heating product for forced hot air systems that turns a single-zone home into a multi-zone home, resulting in added comfort and energy savings. This was an extremely complex project for a group of mechanical engineers as it was very electrical engineering-and programming-heavy. We split into sub-groups to work on specfic tasks and I was the system lead for the User Interface/Experience (UI) group.The UI team designed and 3D printed several iterations of three different enclosures for the electronics, created packaging boxes, wrote a full instruction manual for installation, use and troubleshooting, designed the graphical user interface for the central control unit, and designed posters and brochures for the final presentation.Fall 2008thermoSmartUser Interface team members: Rahel Eisenberg, Aiko Nakano, Sara Segal, Tiffany Tseng.Rebecca A. SmithDetailed etchings on the monkey.Injection-molded ring with snap-fit tolerances.Thermoformed bubble.Butterfly shape of body. Best shape for tricks!Exploded view of yo-yo assembly.Banana etchings on body.Rebecca A. SmithMonkey Yo-yoGather everything you can!Several iterations of the smartTemp enclosure design are shown. The first version (upper right) had ‘piano key’ buttons to interface with buttons on the wireless boards. 2.0 versions were smaller as they were designed for our future custom-designed and printed boards.The Coordinator, or central control unit, was designed to be easily wall- or desk-mounted depending on preference. The slide-off back piece has finger notches (see bottom view of full assembly at right) to make hand-held scheduling as ergonomic as possible.thermoSmart packaging for basic pack.Rebecca A. SmiththermoSmartUse a unifying theme or design.ThermoSmart was created in Product Engineering Process, the senior Mechanical Engi-neering design class. During the class we went through the design process from brain-storming to producing a functioning alpha prototype on a $6500 budget.This year’s product theme was ‘the home,’ and my team of 17 students was assigned the area of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning as our focus. We created thermoSmart, a wireless home heating product for forced hot air systems that turns a single-zone home into a multi-zone home, resulting in added comfort and energy savings. This was an extremely complex project for a group of mechanical engineers as it was very electrical engineering-and programming-heavy. We split into sub-groups to work on specfic tasks and I was the system lead for the User Interface/Experience (UI) group.The UI team designed and 3D printed several iterations of three different enclosures for the electronics, created packaging boxes, wrote a full instruction manual for installation, use and troubleshooting, designed the graphical user interface for the central control unit, and designed posters and brochures for the final presentation.Fall 2008thermoSmartUser Interface team members: Rahel Eisenberg, Aiko Nakano, Sara Segal, Tiffany Tseng.Rebecca A. SmithRebeccaA.SmithDesign [email protected]+1 518 542 3627Several iterations of the smartTemp enclosure design are shown. The first version (upper right) had ‘piano key’ buttons to interface with buttons on the wireless boards. 2.0 versions were smaller as they were designed for our future custom-designed and printed boards.The Coordinator, or central control unit, was designed to be easily wall- or desk-mounted depending on preference. The slide-off back piece has finger notches (see bottom view of full assembly at right) to make hand-held scheduling as ergonomic as possible.thermoSmart packaging for basic pack.Rebecca A. SmiththermoSmartAs a researcher in the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab, I have worked on several projects begin-ning Summer 2008. The main projects were designing an aritificial gastrocnemius, a small spring-clutch mecha-nism, and working on improvements to an exoskeleton prototype.The artificial gastrocnemius (pictured left) is a passive device designed for use by below-the-knee leg amputees when running. Through a pulley mechanism, when the knee bends the artificial leg will ‘lengthen’ at toe-off during running, modeling the motion of a normal runner when the foot flexes as it pushes off the ground. The spring-clutch project involved decreasing the size of an existing spring-clutch by redesigning the pieces. The smaller spring-clutch would be used to create a scale robotic model of the human leg for testing purposes.The parts were designed using SolidWorks and machin-ing was primarily done using a CNC mill (after creating toolpaths in Mastercam), waterjet, and laser cutter.Summer 2008Team member: Andrew Marecki.Prosthetic DevicesRebecca A. SmithAluminum pieces of the spring-clutch (approximately 2” wide and 4”long). Pieces were designed in SolidWorks and cut on waterjet.So far I have CNC milled two of the three artificial gastrocnemius pieces, from