Everyone that has been in college knows the struggle of trying to find places to put a laptop, calculator, notebook, and textbook on a lecture hall's swing up desk. The presentation focused on the stakeholders and what was important to each group, as well as presenting three potential designs. For this PowerPoint, we used Assertion Evidence styling to ensure clarity and reduce distraction. I produced the SolidWorks models and helped research what students needed through surveys.
The report, on the other hand, dives deeper into the prior art available and my team's finalized suggested design including material properties, maintenance, and practicality. It also includes interviews with the head of Facilities and others at Rose-Hulman. I learned how to make figures as clear as possible by pointing out what I wanted the reader to see, so while even skimming the paper, one can immediately comprehend the majority of the main points based solely on the figures. As in Figures 19 and 20, I rendered professional pictures from SolidWorks assemblies that would be appropriate for any level of report or presentation. Both of these will be useful when creating board presentations or project proposals as a systems and mechatronics engineer in the future.