Designing with Carbon Fibre: An introduction to Industrial Design

Introduction

This course will introduce a basic knowledge of high-performance composite materials, process and design skills. Students will also learn how to use the design process to apply these skills to a real-world design challenge, the design of a carbon fibre gripper for a plastic waste-sorting robot arm.

The aim for the gripper is to allow the University of Canberra’s workshop7 own robot arm to sort waste for use in a large-scale 3D printer. Carbon fibre has been selected as the appropriate materials due to its strength to weight ratio, making it a perfect choice for robot arm components. Students will need to design the gripper to achieve the following.

• Consist of two carbon fibre “fingers” attached to the grippers “hand”.
• Able to withstand reasonable damage from an assembly line conveyor belt.
• Successfully pick up the 3 common shapes of plastic waste, including;
  • Cylindrical forms (Bottles)
  • Rectangular forms (boxes)
  • Spherical forms (round objects).

Highlights

• Gain an understanding of the design process and its application
• Acquire some basic techniques for generation design ideas and concepts
• Obtain an introduction in designing a composite product
• Increase awareness of Industrial Design and opportunities for employment

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Applications

Open: Now Open
Close: 23rd September 2020

Admissions

This course is open to all interested year 11 and year 12 students

Dates

28th September, 1st & 2nd October

Fees

FREE