Project information

  • Category: Design and Manufacturing Project
  • Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
  • Project date: March 2022 - June 2022

Water Powered Chess Clock

Learned the engineering design process from system requirements review (SRR), to preliminary design review (PDR), and crtitical design review (CDR).

Designed a water chess clock which is completely manual. The clock has the ability to run a 5 minute game timer, reset, play turns, and pause.

o Created 3 preliminary designs and chose 1 critical design

o 5 main assemblies with 8 sub assemblies in the final design

o Water flow rate and forces calculations