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Toasting Design

Engineering design has a lot of nuances and caveats. This podcast discusses those and a few side tracks from time to time. Brought to you by the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand

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00:23:30

#117 Unique Solutions

Toasting Design ·

2021/08/27

There are always alternate options. Some are better than others (see episode 118 for more). But sometimes you see an idea that is not necessarily better or worse but completely different to the way you may have thought to approach it, whether constraining yourself to a particular view point or based on your own knowledge and experience guiding you down a single path. To illustrate this I found examples of unique solutions that I would not have come to and tested what would Boer have done (WWBHD - a

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00:28:11

#116 Making the Problem Real

Toasting Design ·

2021/08/20

There are some many different ways to find, define and refine a problem. While one way may work in a given situation it is not always applicable in another. For example watching the news might give you an idea for a problem orientated around Covid (unless you are listening to this in the far future in which case, replace Covid with whatever apocalypse type event is currently annoying you). But watching the news will not always give you ideas on problems. Or at least it might not give you ideas for

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00:25:27

#115 Post Release Iteration

Toasting Design ·

2021/08/13

Don't you just wish that you could keep working on that design project? Keep going until the complete product is sitting in your hand (or in front of you at least - don't sit an aircraft on your hand). No? Is that just me? Ok what about once the project is done telling you to get back at it after your lecturer has told you how terrible a job you did in the first place? Still no? Really? Shame, I guess. Design never ends, there is always more work to do be done. Its engineering purgatory. Hosted

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00:24:32

#114 Jet Packs

Toasting Design ·

2021/08/06

How to plan and setup a Toasting Design episode. Step 1) Completely ignore the problem until randomly hit with an inspiration from either a student, a book, a Guinness world record (our forte), a youtube video or a random epiphany in the middle of the night. Step 2) Spend a few minutes planning it out and telling the other host about it. Step 3) Get excited about the topic. Step 4) Completely drop it when you realise the conversation during the podcast has inspired something else entirely. Today

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00:28:59

#113 Keeping Busy

Toasting Design ·

2021/07/30

As engineers the simple things that keep most NonEn's (non engineers) busy and entertained simply isn't enough for us. We need more. Such as taking chess and making all the pieces little robots that fight or play water polo in a pool of carbon dioxide that you have to run around in instead of swimming but cannot breathe in either. We like to take things up a notch with most of the fun figuring out how do actually set it up in the first place. So we did that. Hosted while dizzy by M. Boer and S

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00:35:54

#112 Design Series Part 4

Toasting Design ·

2021/07/23

Design Planning cont. This is part 4 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consequteively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com) Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 1st June 2021

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00:30:39

#111 Design Series Part 3

Toasting Design ·

2021/07/16

Design Planning This is part 3 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consequteively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com) Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 1st June 2021

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00:30:03

#110 Training Day

Toasting Design ·

2021/07/09

The idea that you are either born a designer or you are not is a bit nonsense. Design is a skill which is learnt. It is a skill that needs to be exercised and one that requires training. A large point behind this podcast is to discuss ways of doing so and while discussed in the past we are going through it all once more, hopefully from a different angle. Let us know if you find these content types of interest (toastingdesign@gmail.com) Hosted under cover by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 20th May

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00:29:39

#109 Design Series Part 2

Toasting Design ·

2021/07/02

Problem Identification cont. This is part 2 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consequteively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com) Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 20th May 2021

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00:24:58

#108 Learning from history

Toasting Design ·

2021/06/25

Been there. Done that. Got the marksheet. It's been done so why look back, design about looking to the future. Right? No? Well aren't you the smartass. Ok, well that's correct. While it is good to keep ideas expanding and not be stuck in ideas or approaches from the past, it is also important to be aware of ideas from the past. How many times have you seen documentaries where the presenter claims that the system was "ahead of it's time." These ideas don't always work but maybe the reason for failure

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00:28:34

#107 Design Series Part 1

Toasting Design ·

2021/06/18

Problem Identification This is part 1 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consequteively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com) Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 7th May 2021

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00:37:29

#106 We have gone to far

Toasting Design ·

2021/06/11

While we discuss the student issue of going into too much detail in a design, Jeremy's adventure continues.... He was done, putting down the candy cane pen, Jeremy sat back in the fruit cake chair and marvelled. This was it, the pun that would end all puns. The recipe for a single piece of toast that would finally have Boer look at him with respect instead of... well what was that look? Was it pity? Was it fear? Fairly the time with Burt jumping out the cake instilled fear (how did Burt sneak in

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00:25:05

#105 Using the Users

Toasting Design ·

2021/06/04

Having wandered through the wilderness for the past four nights, Jeremy stumbled upon the gingerbread house. Out of bread crumbs and with nothing but a photo of Burt, Jeremy knocked on the door. The muffled, thick sound of gingerbread against knuckles gave him pause for thought. Why had he not thought of this before? Assured of his purpose he burst in with an air of confidence and nary a thought of the occupants. Muttering and with a smile of wonder, Jeremy strode past the two children maliciously

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00:21:55

#104 We save the Olympics

Toasting Design ·

2021/05/28

There is a clear distinction between guessing, estimating and specifying. It is, however, not always clear when to do what or what is good enough in a given situation. Its certainly not a case of choosing one and deciding thats what will be done but rather what is possible based on the information at hand/available and what accuracy is needed. This was going to be the topic today but instead we got distracted by pole vaulting relay races... can you blame us? Hosted while armed with athletic

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00:25:58

#103 Combatting bad habits

Toasting Design ·

2021/05/21

That title may have made this seem very exciting. Possibly even a big topic. And from a certain point of view (thanks Obi), it is. But at the same time, it's about misuse within design and how to counter it. Again. We had fun. Hosted in a gingerbread house by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 13 April 2021.

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00:27:19

#102 The Misused Toaster

Toasting Design ·

2021/05/14

While toothbrushes may be reasonably used in other applications (just don't brush your teeth with the same brush that cleaned the air filter) and seat belts or airbags should only be used in one way, toasters can feasibly be misused but maybe shouldn't always be. In another tangent (who saw that happening in this podcast) we discuss cooking methods and suggestions for you to probably avoid at home. Hosted toastily by M. Boer and S. Schekman on the 30th March 2021

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00:32:42

#101 That's not how you are supposed to use that

Toasting Design ·

2021/05/07

Engineers are great problem solvers, finding uses and applications for systems and products that may have been unforeseen or unintended. Other people are also good at doing the same but not necessarily with the same forethought or consideration to the consequences. The challenge for the designer, then is first accepting that this will happen and then deciding what to do about it. Resign to the idea and let it happen, rise to the challenge and make the design good in other applications or (my

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00:49:02

#100 Episode 100: The Hundredth Episode (+3)

Toasting Design ·

2021/04/30

After 100 episodes there is one clear point that regardless of everything else that we have covered, emphasized, taught, forgotten, argued over or dreamt up: No matter what you do to it toast is toast. Also concept 2 is going to win. Hosted fondly by M. Boer and S. Schekman on the 25th March 2021.

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00:30:47

#99 The Seven Steps Part 2

Toasting Design ·

2021/04/23

Design is about numbers. Concept 2 (or 5) for example. Today we talk about 7 steps (or skills or actions) of an engineer during design. Is there significance to this now that it is considering the podcast is being released just before that maths test? Is this us subtly hinting to you that the answer will be 7? No. Don't read too much into it (the answer is obviously the square root of two pi). Apologies for the poor audio quality Hosted by repeating ourselves because we are professionals by M. Boer

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00:30:02

#98 The Seven Steps Part 1

Toasting Design ·

2021/04/16

Design is about numbers. Concept 2 (or 5) for example. Today we talk about 7 steps (or skills or actions) of an engineer during design. Is there significance to this now that it is considering the podcast is being released just before that maths test? Is this us subtly hinting to you that the answer will be 7? No. Don't read too much into it (the answer is obviously the square root of two pi). Apologies for the poor audio quality.... unless you enjoyed it in which case you have something to look

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