Improving the Mechanical Pencil: Engineering Task Report

Experienced engineer working for EMU Consultancy, is given an engineering task for improving the Mechanical pencil in The provided pen does not have any drawing or operation manual.In a recent new product survey report customer’s needs are summarized as - balletic, strong, easy to control and maintainable, durable, safe for children and comfortable with some modern (21st Century) add on-features. As a result, the improvised product has to undergo a 360-degree transformation.

The improvised product should be an optimized version of a product with sophisticated and high-tech state of the art laboratory and system of manufacturing.Considering an engineer’s role as a consultant you should make a report with references of the systems used to make a component and other systems that can be used for manufacturing.[Identify components, Manufacturing of components, manufacturing system (mass manufacturing.

Considering the above scenario, the engineer should make a report with references of the process of design and manufacture as it applies to an engineering problem with constraints of cost less than 20 Dhs.[Reverse engineering, design needs, constraints and criteria, identifying components, Manufacturing].

Please assess students’ achievements on each of the listed evaluation items by giving a mark
ranging from 1 to 4 while considering the followings:
• 1= doesn’t meet expectation; 2= meets some expectations; 3= meets all; 4= exceeds.
• Descriptors of rubrics are available in page 2.
• Marks assigned to item #1 should discriminate students while marks for items #2 and 3 must be identical among all students in the group.
• No more than 3 students per group.