Ashley Lowber
Mechanical Engineering Portfolio
Lunar Construct
Rapid Prototyping • CAD • Design for manufacturability • Machine Lab Milling • Turning
Pattern Making • Sand Casting • Water-jet Cutting • Woodworking Finishing

Context: I sought to design an artistic piece using various manufacturing
processes in Stanford’s Product Realization Lab for my ME203 class.
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Solution: Inspired by the natural landscape of mountain ranges that I
have admired in California over the years, my product brings a sculptural
element to an everyday functional product. This piece serves as a desktop
clock with a slanted surface permitting the viewer to read the time -
a different take on the traditional wall-mounted analog
clock. The milled aluminum face symbolizes the moon hanging over the
reddish sand-casted landscape above a starry night featured on a turned
cylindrical body.
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Pattern (custom designed CAD model of mountain landscape) being prepped for ramming up.

Image of final patten and gate and runner (carved from wood) in flask.

Finished clock display featuring (from bottom to top): Dark white oak wooden frame, silicone bronze mountain landscape, spray painted aluminum tube body, clock face with mirror finish, clock hands connected to interior motor (screwed into clock face)

Pattern (custom designed CAD model of mountain landscape) being prepped for ramming up.