One of the tools that can be most useful for teaching design and how things work to high school students or first-semester engineering, is the reverse engineering. Reverse engineering ( sometimes also called product dissection) is a redesign methodology. This means it is a design process that can be applied to an existing product, a prototype or a detailed concept. This is a process that uses a variety of techniques in the form of models, diagrams, patterns and normative theories to dissect and understand a product fully.
Concisely formulated, reverse engineering process begins the redesign of a product, where this is observed, disassembled, analyzed and documented in terms of its functionality, shape, physical principles, manufacturability and it ability to assemble. The initial intention of this process is to understand and fully represent the current state of the product.
Dissection of products and benchmarking procedures are commonly used in industry to improve product design and quality to produce a superior performance. When applied properly in college in undergraduate, these procedures can improve the process of engineering design education.
In this video you can see some mechanical engineering students at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, making disassembly phase of an exercise in reverse engineering a gearbox of a car.
Concisely formulated, reverse engineering process begins the redesign of a product, where this is observed, disassembled, analyzed and documented in terms of its functionality, shape, physical principles, manufacturability and it ability to assemble. The initial intention of this process is to understand and fully represent the current state of the product.
Dissection of products and benchmarking procedures are commonly used in industry to improve product design and quality to produce a superior performance. When applied properly in college in undergraduate, these procedures can improve the process of engineering design education.
In this video you can see some mechanical engineering students at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, making disassembly phase of an exercise in reverse engineering a gearbox of a car.