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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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00:28:13

#77 Completely inconsistent

Toasting Design ·

2020/11/13

It's easy. Are you complete with your work? Yes? Then you have been inconsistent. Does that statement hold true throughout? I really hope not. In design, however, it holds up well and is a good lesson to keep in mind. Also becomes it implies that you are never done in design if you have been consistent, which is a sad truth (there is always more you can do). Hosted incompletely because of consistency by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 22 Sept 2020 Keys: when is a project done, integration of systems,

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00:19:05

#76 Heisenberg's uncertainty with design

Toasting Design ·

2020/11/06

The original approach to this topic was schrodingers cat. The idea being that after you complete a design it is both a failure and a pass until someone looks at it. That got depressing quickly and required much toast to pull us out of that slump. Following on from us wanting to not consider the future submissions that are yet to be we moved onto the principle of not getting distracted with things that don't matter. Hosted in the now by M. Boer and S. Schekman on the 22 Sept 2020 Keys: considerations

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00:38:52

#75 The What If's in Design Part 2

Toasting Design ·

2020/10/30

No more interuptions. Just good ol' design of the ultimate gardening system, now with added pest seek and destroy action and the ability to hover. When we look back at what happened and how the machines took over we have only the weeds to blame. But what if you used sunlight to burn out the unwanted life in the garden? What if there has been enough ran to turn the ground into mud and the design can no longer move? Hosted as close to being in the outdoors as the podcast is likely to get by M. Boer

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00:24:56

#74 The What If's in Design Part 1

Toasting Design ·

2020/10/23

To interupt or not interupt. To account for every "what if" during the design or to run on with it and hope it works out later. It has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand it stops you running ahead with the really bad ideas and wasting too much time but on the other hand it means that when all you wanted is a coffee machine you somehow end up figuring out how to both hard boil and fry an egg. Interrupted repeatedly by M. Boer and S. Schekman on the 8th September 2020 Keys: accounting

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00:31:01

#73 Getting Functional Part 2

Toasting Design ·

2020/10/16

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of a person's fears and the summit of their knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Toasting Design. Completely off topic as usual by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 1 September 2020 Key words: Functional considerations, design considerations, problem defining, concept generation, practicing functional considerations

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00:19:13

#72 Getting Functional Part 1

Toasting Design ·

2020/10/09

You can define a function as the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists or any of a group of related actions contributing to a larger action. Does that help you understand it better? It doesn't for me but thats mostly because design doesn't work by dictionary definitions and when dealing with functions on your designs there are different and varied ways in which they are considered and these may be different between design engineers. What we

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00:28:28

#71 Matching your habits to your thoughts

Toasting Design ·

2020/10/02

It's been said before but Design needs time. Time to review your ideas and critically evaluate your decisions (should you really have used a dog sled as inspiration for your martian rover? - no. No you should not have). Time is also necessary when coming up with ideas and tackling problems and choices with the full spectrum of tools/skills/options at your designs proposal - did you consider using environmental factors as a potential propulsion system? We don't tell you what to do per se here but

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00:24:43

#70 Assessing what should be assessed

Toasting Design ·

2020/09/25

You are designing a bicycle to compete against a standard off the shelf model. In competing you need to know what information is required to begin your design and ensure that it succeeds (i.e. solves the problem). What do you need? The water bottle size that be accomodated? The pressure required to activate the breaks? The seat density? The material density of the pedals? None, right? (yes that is right - go back and correct yourself as necessary). Getting the correct information is important and

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00:24:09

#69 Designing research

Toasting Design ·

2020/09/18

Did we design a new form of research? Well no (that should be obvious). Did we design the original research? Again no (that would be impossible without time travel). Did you not ask these questions? Oh. Well that's different then. Did we apply design in our own research. Yes. You can't not do that. You can apply design really badly in your own research but you certainly cant get out of it completely. If this has shattered your dreams of being a researcher and getting as far from design as possible

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00:31:45

#68 Requiring regulation regarding requirements

Toasting Design ·

2020/09/11

In retrospect the issue with the final idea proposed within has a major problem. The parents are likely to want to play just as much as the kids. That may have been an overlooked matter. No Jeremy's were harmed in the recording of this episode (and yes, there are multiple Jeremy's) Hosted by ignoring the constraints and requirements of M. Boer and S. Schekman on 4th August 2020 Keys: URS, PRS, requirement based problems, breaking down the problem using the URS

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00:25:20

#67 Playing with grounded constraints

Toasting Design ·

2020/09/04

Having developed the playground swing set it was noted that the enclosure was sufficiently airtight that a child would only have 2 minutes of oxygen before he/she would pass out and the next child could get a turn. In hindsight the consdiration of the parents and owner of the grounds should have been taken into account as pit underneath the swing was, based on a survey, found to be unethical in the way it removed the child in peparation for the next rider. Also the suffocation was not well received

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00:23:50

#66 Less waffle, more toast

Toasting Design ·

2020/08/28

Let's get to the point, no more meandering about, no more senseless discussion on whether Jeremy or Burt is worse human being, stop the unnecessary reminagining of the their backstories. Plain and simply: we talk about design. Also Jeremy is the worse person. Hosted quickly and concisely by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 30 July 2020 Keys: writing concisely, unnecessary content in a report, how to approach the writing of a report

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00:45:40

#65 On a more serious note

Toasting Design ·

2020/08/21

August is Women's month and we thought we would tackle the serious topic of gender based violence in the context of engineering design. Hosted by M. Boer, T. Mangera and S. Schekman Keys: Importance of problem identification, focusing on the problem, considering worst case scenarios,

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00:19:53

#64 Student Projects Part 2

Toasting Design ·

2020/08/14

In this stunning conclusion to the long awaited discussion we in no way meet your very limited expectations. What we do instead is talk about design and design projects. It really is (pun intended) our bread and butter. That pun is enough to make me want to change the name of this podcast to breading design but that just sounds like we are dipping design in bread crumbs to deep fry. Admittedly we can play on this further with design being finger licking good (though obviously don't lick your fingers

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00:23:08

#63 Student Projects Part 1

Toasting Design ·

2020/08/07

What do you do when first given a design project? After the obligatory whimper, obviously. Are you asking the good questions or are you immediately looking for the loopholes and ways to make your life easier? Finding and exploiting loopholes can help and is a part of design but they have their place. I also assure you that students of design know how to find loopholes. So instead we discuss the projects and see what good questions we can ask. Hosted by way of an interesting loophole involving toast

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00:28:44

#62 Con - wait for it - cepts

Toasting Design ·

2020/07/31

Concepts are probably the best part about engineering design. The consideration of alternative options are the reason we have tank treads instead of just wheels, aluminium skinned aircraft instead of fabric covered ones and choosing your next cellphone can be time consuming. So its a big topic to discuss and delve into and one we will undoubtably return to in the future. Hosted instead by Burt Russel under the guise of M. Boer and S. Schekman on 30 June 2020

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00:22:13

#61 Concepts again

Toasting Design ·

2020/07/24

Fire. Fire good! Fire fun! But sometimes it's not and when it's not then the fun needs to found in ways of stopping/controlling/manipulating it. When doing you will have options. Different ways of stopping/controlling/manipulating the energy. And when it comes to design, your options are your concepts. So let's do come up with some ideas. Hosted through the imagination of the imaginary Jeremy by M. Boer and S. Schekman on the 30 June 2020

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00:47:51

#60 Concepts à la Boer and Schekman

Toasting Design ·

2020/07/17

There is more than one way to fillet a fish, there is more than one way to introduce the podcast and there is more than one way to back flip off a car in a high speed pursuit so that you land on the car behind you and use the impact to propel you up the side of the building. Okay so maybe not that last one but it is important to always consider your options. When it comes to generating options or concepts in design there is more than 1 way to go about this, none of them are necessarily wrong though

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01:04:50

#0 Introductions

Toasting Design ·

2020/07/14

Welcome to Toasting design where we talk about engineering design, Burt Russell, Chef Jeremy and hypersonic trains that educate children about the importance of sarcasm. Timestamps for future reference: The good stuff: 0:00 Host introductions: 01:38 Purpose of podcasts: 03:48 The Design Process: 08:48 Hosted for the first time, 62 episodes in, by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 14th July 2020 Keys: Introduction to main hosts, purpose of Toasting design, the design process

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00:22:49

#59 WFH Police

Toasting Design ·

2020/07/10

Working from home has advantages and disadvantages. It is also not for everyone or every business. Many, if not most, of you would say the police force cannot operate in a work from home type setup but why not? What is the purpose in a police station in this day and age? Pursuing ideas like this are, at the very least, a good way to stretch ideas and perceptions of what you know. We are not saying we know the answers nor that our ideas are correct but if no one questions anything then there can be

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