About Colin

I have B.Sc. in Manufacturing + Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Design and have worked for Nortel Networks (Calgary) and for Repsol/Total/OMV in the Libyan desert. Currently, I teach technical design in the MET program at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary.

This site shows my day-to-day progress -- both as an instructor and as a (hopefully) ever-better designer.

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Grid systems

1. Systematic design

1. Systematic design

This is the begining of a design effort based on Pahl’s rationalist approach.

As part of a program redesign effort at the office (Manufacturing and Automation, at SAIT Polytechnic), I will be running a design-effort-as-demonstration. I’m planning to simultaneously explore Nigel Cross’s design advice in Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design, Pahl’s approach in Engineering Design: a Systematic Approach, and Autodesk’s Inventor (which is new to me as a soon-to-be-ex-SolidWorks-type). I’ll post the results here, in their entirety.

First: identifying the opportunity.

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