Project A: Preliminary Designs for an Automatic Egg Cooker

This project is worth 30% of the total mark. It consists of two parts as following:

• Part 1: Group work. This part required the member to work along together to solve/create a problem solving for the given engineering problems. It is worth 10% of the total marks and it marks by 100 points.
  
  
• Part 2: Individual Contribution. In part 2, the member must submit an individual report reflecting own contribution toward the group completion. Members within the group will have the power to determine the contribution of another member to ensure marks are fairly marked. Part 2 worth 20% of the total marks and it marks by 100 points

• 1: Evaluate and produce design alternatives from a supplied design concept
• 2: Develop design parameters considering functionality, safety, environmental, cultural and, ethical issues

Case study:

You are employed by an innovative restaurant company. The president of the company recently went out for breakfast and had to send his eggs back three times before they were prepared to his satisfaction. The difficulty seems to be that the restaurant was not big enough for two cooks, but during peak times, the load was too much for one cook. The cook complained that eggs require supervision while they are cooking, but the cook does not have time to monitor a large number of small orders dung peak times. The president of the company wants to investigate the possibility of designing, building and marking an automatic egg cooker. Your boss asks that you develop three preliminary designs. The device should easily fit on a countertop and should be inexpensive to manufacture and maintain.

Each group will need to read the provided case study above and prepare a project proposal reflecting the following contents:

• Evaluate the existing design product: define the needs, objectives,
• Identify the alternatives that can be used to improve/resolve the existing problems
• Based on the chosen alternative, develop a draft that describes how the alternative works, including design parameters, safety requirements, environmental effects, any cultural and/or ethical issues.