What to Blog?

Language

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Have Fun 

Apart from the above, anything is acceptable. We encourage healthy self-expression, doddles, sketches, videos, music, Singlish...anything is fine. Do respect intellectual properties and always give credits whenever possible

What to write?

Each week, we cover a few topics, you should blog about these topics briefly, more importantly your takeaways from each lessons. I will be summarising the learning for each week to help you recall what were covered.

Week1

1.    Overview of the module

2.    What is a chemical product? 

        -    More specifically the definition that we have adopted for this module

3.    Tuckman's different phases of a team

4.    Creating a blog

Week2

1.    Why do Literature Review?

2.     What is a good literature Review?

3.    What topic has your group decided to research on?

Week3

1.    We use SCAMPER to help us generate different chemical device ideas 

2.    We used Feasibility Analysis to screen out impractical ideas from our SCAMPER exercise 

3.    We use COWS to identify the most suitable chemical device idea to work on

Week4

While the lesson is asynchronous and is a revision and application of what you have learnt in your Year One Material for Design module, blogging is still necessary You can blog about

1.    COWS.. about relevance, feasible, contextualised, basis for scoring

2.   The group assignment that your group needs to do.

Week5

This week we continued to explore the inter-relationship between materials and design. We went through case studies on how design was changed so that the desirable attributes of a certain material can be enjoyed. We did an activity about finding a material that can be a direct replacement of another in an existing product without any design change as well as finding a use for this material in an existing product that is made possible only by a change in design. Reflect on your groups learning

Week6

We considered sustainable design for our chemical product. This lesson covers product life cycle and Cradle-to-Cradle.

Week7

This week we started our learning journey on Fusion 360, a CADD software. What have your learnt? We learn how to draw a simple keyring and learn how to hasten the drawing process through the use of sketch constraints. Blog about your groups' take away. Screen capture and post images of your groups' keyrings here! You can also post the photo frame too.

Week12

After four weeks break, we continued where we have started in Week 7 on CADD and 3D printing. For the lesson this week, we covered the importance of advanced manufacturing focusing on digital fabrication. We adopted peer teaching approach where each group was assigned a topic to do research on and thereafter shared their learning with the class through short presentation. We then did a MCQ quiz on Blackboard to assess our understanding about 3D printing.

Week13

This week we rethink about the chemical engineering principles that our product is based on. We also discuss various mechanism that can be used to enhance the effect of these chemical engineering principles.

Week14

This is the last lesson before we breakout for prototyping. This week we learnt about one-point and 2-point perspective drawings. We are learnt how to draft a product specification table.