The Renovated "Cubicle"
"The Renovated 'Cubicle'" was the first engineering project I ever worked on. While driving home one night with my mother, a discussion of her noisy day at work struck the idea - what if there was another way to reduce the ambient noise in the standard office workplace without getting rid of the open plan?
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Project Synopsis
The focus of this project was to change the shape of the standard box cubicle to observe the effect it would have for the ambient sound coming into its space. I created and tested four designs - the Pentagon, the Honeycomb, the Circle, and the Standard, which was sued as a control group in testing. Post-testing analysis showed the Honeycomb design to be the most effective in reducing ambient sound.
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Featured here is a detailed analysis of the testing results of the prototypes. Three different designs, plus the standard cubicle acting as a control group for comparison, were tested to measure which prototype produced the lowest decibel reading when sound traveled through space.
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This project was featured in a brief presentation showcasing the projects of students that competed in the 2018 St. Mary's County Science and Engineering Fair. "The Renovated 'Cubicle'" is featured on Slide 12 of the presentation.
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Featured here is a folder containing pictures of the design and construction processes of the prototypes. Shots of the testing setting created for the prototypes are showed as well.
