Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-10-2023
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Center for Manufacturing Excellence
First Advisor
Mike Gill
Second Advisor
Rick Hollander
Third Advisor
Ellis Bledsoe
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
Progressing from a simple idea into a fully developed product is one of the main goals of any engineer. Through Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence’s capstone program, the team was tasked with realizing a tensegrity cup stand. The tensegrity structure consists of a top and a bottom of some form only supporting itself by tension. The team had to research the concept, create an initial design, create a prototype of the product, improve the design after the prototype’s mistakes, apply lean principles to improve the manufacturing efficiency, and analyze all the economic impacts of the engineering decisions. In the end, a well-polished product and process was achieved while still providing a positive-profit business model. The capstone process taught the whole team an extensive amount of real-world engineering challenges as well as the contributions needed to manufacture a product.
Recommended Citation
Goulet, Yaniv and Ferro, Daniel, "The Engineering Challenges of Designing and Manufacturing a Tensegrity Cup Stand" (2023). Honors Theses. 2893.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2893
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