Category: Engineering

For the medical device technical module, I decided to do a scalpel because after completion of my undergraduate degree I would like to pursue a career as a dermatologist and take part in dermatological surgeries.

For my second technical module assignment, I decided to create a telephone booth because you see them all around Scotland.

For my technical module product that was related to healthcare, I chose to create an antidepressant. With mental health being such an important topic for the past several years and talking to random people on the street surveying them about their country’s mental health services, I knew I wanted to create this. Partially to help raise awareness that taking medication is okay and sometimes one person’s pathway to getting better. The other part is because my personal onshape skills have a long way to go. This was the perfect physical object related to healthcare for me to make with my current pool of skills.

I started by determining the antidepressant that I wanted to make, amitriptyline. The pill is typically blue or green and pretty small, intended for daily use. I picked my measurements in onshape, added the text to identify the amount of milligrams for my model pill, and printed it. The print was a little bit of a failure, as it was so small that the engravings did not translate well into the physical model, but that’s okay. I am proud of my pill, and that I learned how to curve edges and use different onshape functions, with a little help.

The not quite-a-failure, failure pictured above. Physically, the size was correct! The edges did not curve as pictured above but seeing as it was such a small print, that is understandable.