ENES 100 - Over Sand Vehicle Project

As the Build Lead on my team, I was in charge of the manufacturing process of our vehicle. This role was satisfying due to the high percentage of the vehicle that we created fully in-house. We cut plexiglass to use as our chassis and 3D-printed nearly all remaining parts of the design. At the end of the semester, we were awarded best craftsmanship out of approximately forty teams.

Having a leadership role for this project was extremely rewarding. I was in charge of four other team members who were focused on the mechanical design of our vehicle. During this project, I was able to see how hard my team was working and our hard work really paid off. Above is a video of when we first got our vehicle running. This was a huge achievement and the entire team was very proud of this accomplishment. 

Multiple aspects of our design were manufactured with 3D printed parts. A few examples of the parts that we created are included above. We printed all of our vehicle's wheels and even used a flexible filament for the treads. We also printed all of our motor mounts and several other parts of our design.

For this project, our team used Autodesk Inventor as our computer-aided design software. As the mechanical lead on the team, I spent a lot of time working on the CAD parts for the team and created the final assembly, shown above.