Automotive Systems Protection Tube - First Place Winner in Student Competition
Automotive Systems Protection Tube - First Place Winner in Student Competition from Alyssa Kane
Automotive Systems Protection Tube - First Place Winner in Student Competition

Collaborating with a team of two engineering students, three business students, and one other industrial design student, my team created a self-adhering protective tube for automotive wires, tubes, and cables. The tube can be cut to length and tightened into place by hand.

This was a competition sponsored by Federal Mogul Systems Protection. We were required to design the product, test its abilities using Solidworks and physical hands-on testing, and create a business plan including cost analyses and marketing strategy. After presenting our ideas along with a prototype and a demonstration of its functionality, we were chosen as the winning team.

As a part of our winnings, we presented our idea to a board of Federal Mogul and Chevrolet employees at the Chevrolet corporate headquarters in Michigan.

This model is very similar to the final prototype my team submitted to Federal Mogul. Due to an intellectual property agreement made with the company I am unable to show photos of the actual final prototype here.
The process of making our final prototype.
Heat testing performed on our Solidworks model.
We performed physical heat testing on our prototypes at different distances, temperatures, and lengths of time. We also exposed the prototype to open flame as shown in the photo second photo above.
A cross-section sketch of the final concept.
Our final concept started off as one idea out of three that we presented to a board of Federal Mogul employees halfway through the competition. Upon receiving positive feedback for this particular idea, we focused our efforts on this concept for the remainder of the competition.
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My ideation sketches at the start of the competition.
We produced many different mock-ups at throughout the competition, experimenting with different materials and taking into consideration their abrasiveness, heat and flame resistance, cost-effectiveness, manufacturing process, and the user interaction at the time of installation.
We produced many different mock-ups at throughout the competition, experimenting with different materials and taking into consideration their abrasiveness, heat and flame resistance, cost-effectiveness, manufacturing process, and the user interaction at the time of installation.
We produced many different mock-ups at throughout the competition, experimenting with different materials and taking into consideration their abrasiveness, heat and flame resistance, cost-effectiveness, manufacturing process, and the user interaction at the time of installation.
We produced many different mock-ups at throughout the competition, experimenting with different materials and taking into consideration their abrasiveness, heat and flame resistance, cost-effectiveness, manufacturing process, and the user interaction at the time of installation.
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Automotive Systems Protection Tube - First Place Winner in Student Competition

Collaborating with a team of two engineering students, three business students, and one other industrial design student, my team created a self-adhering protective tube for automotive wires, tubes, and cables. The tube can be cut to length and tightened into place by hand.

This was a competition sponsored by Federal Mogul Systems Protection. We were required to design the product, test its abilities using Solidworks and physical hands-on testing, and create a business plan including cost analyses and marketing strategy. After presenting our ideas along with a prototype and a demonstration of its functionality, we were chosen as the winning team.

As a part of our winnings, we presented our idea to a board of Federal Mogul and Chevrolet employees at the Chevrolet corporate headquarters in Michigan.

Alyssa Kane
Designer at Oysterbed Home San Francisco, CA