Product: Sanyo Television

Targeted Audience: Senior Citizens (Retired)

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                Reverse engineering in my interpretation is taking apart an object to see how it works in order to make a replica or better the product by changing up things for that item to be bought or used. Reverse engineering is practiced within the industry to come up with better ideas so products can get out there and sale. Also by taking apart things you can learn a lot about that product in order to improve it for better quality and you can fix its mistakes. Reverse engineering teaches one in figuring out the mistakes as in forward engineering they brain storm their product, build it, and then see what it can and cannot do w/o taking it apart so they can figure out its mistakes in order to help improve the product right away. Reverse engineering helps keep loyal customers while gaining new customers because if it’s a possible problem that occurs a solution will soon to be figured out in order to keep their products at its best.

                The criteria and constraints for the new product is that it had to be a minimum of 299.99, light in weight, and etc. The criteria assisted me by giving me a set of things I had to do in order to change up the television that fitted the elderly complaints. The key components that required an upgrade were: the weight of the television, the cost that was fit for the elderly, the level of difficulty, the picture quality, closed captions, it only came in three colors, and thickness of the television. The process for the project required: breaking down the television into parts bit by bit, schematics of how it looked on the inside and out including the parts that were inside and what it was made of, and research on how to better the product and look and explore the different parts to the television.

                In conclusion, this project was a big jump in order to see what they do in the engineering business. It really shows and prepares you for what you have to do later in life, but it had its up and downs with the difficult level. The hands-on part was probably the best part in the project because you actually got to feel and look at the things that the television consisted of. Also you got to see the different components and learn about them by research and show your artistic ability by drawing the items on the grid paper. Last, it gave me an inspiration so I can work harder to become an engineer later in the future.