The goal of this project was to design a robust model of Elmer Verburg’s grasshopper engine. For this project, our group was tasked with modeling all components (given the part drawings) in a robust manner. This project was done in Creo, and before the project I had no experience with this software but I was able to master it within 7 weeks.

For the project, I identified and created appropriate subassemblies by determining what components of the engine were stationary relative to one another. With the assemblies in place, we were then tasked with assembling two sub-linkages, ensuring that there were no redundancies and that the model had only one degree of freedom. Lastly, we examined the kinematic and dynamic behavior of both the sublinkages and the complete mechanism.