This is a tilt-deck car carrier trailer that I designed at home during my last work term.  I needed a topic for my work term report, and since my brother (a machinist and fabricator) had already built a similar trailer for my father I decided to design a new trailer to improve on the original.  The design itself took about 50 hours, including calculations in MathCAD and solid modeling in SolidWorks.  I tried to avoid formed parts and those requiring intricate profile burnings to reduce fabrication time.

During the fourth-year design project last summer my group designed an ocean kayak stabilization system that would encourage those with lower body disabilities to try paddling.  The project was run in conjunction with the UVic Innovation and Development Corporation with the goal of producing a design that could be produced in limited volumes to be marketed and sold through the Internet.  Our design won the competition by being less expensive, less visually intrusive and less complex than the competing designs.  This project was modeled in SolidWorks.

Aside from doing a large portion of the solid modeling on the stabilizer project I was also responsible for designing its pontoons.  The pontoons were designed to be symmetric in both the fore-aft and port-starboard planes so that the same pontoon assembly could be used on either side of the kayak.  The pontoon was modeled in SolidWorks utilizing the "Loft" and "Shell" functions.