Project Overview

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Welcome to Team 4's MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT

Our Team 4 from Vantage College of Applied Science consists of 5 sub-teams with specified distributed works: Documentation, Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, and User-Interfaces. We applied the engineering design process for the successful design project of the Energy Recovery Clothes Dryer.


Energy Recovery Clothes Dryer with Music Player Reminding the End of a Cycle

Clothes dryers consume electricity and other sources of non-renewable energy to function. To encourage energy sustainability, our design of dryers are taking the main objective of high efficiency. Other key design objectives of our group’s clothes dryer design are short drying time (max. 1hr), quality of drying performance, reasonable capacity per period (250*220*300mm), and appropriate price range competing for the average market price ($360). The key features of our group’s clothes dryer prototype must include a function of playing music after a successful period of operation. Another essential prototype of our design is a function of Bluetooth connection with phones for setting a specific song from a playlist and getting notifications of the current progress of drying. Also, the dryer must be hazard-free from any safety concerns including flaming, toxic, and others. Considering these objectives, functions, and constraints of the design, reliable and detailed plan and progress of the design are explained in the next pages.