in the journeyShih-Yen Lo’s Portfolio

Shih-Yen (A. K. A. David) Lo is a man with great passion on vehicles. When he was young, fascinated by movable model and handlaunched airplane models. Majored in naval architecture as an undergraduate student and now joining a MA program of vehicle R&D.

Deeply realized that human civilization need a whole new transpor-tation system in future, David has a dream of becoming a vehicle designer who have the abilities of engineering and styling, wish that could figure out a transportation not only energy efficient, but also full of fun.

Meanwhile, David love photography, cycling, hiking, and handicraft-ing. Not satisfied by most of mass produced tools he bought for those hobbies, David deeply realized that engineering is not the only way to make human lives better. But he knows that design do, and tried several projects to realize his well-designed tools.

In the journey to his dream, David tries to enrich himself with the knowledge and skill of design, which was the totally new field against his own study of machenical engineering. David knows there is a long long journey to go, but he will do his best to struggle out. This portfo-lio is the way David went through, he is still in the journey.

Preface

EDUCATION:2009 – 20112007 – 2011

20062005 – 200920052002 – 2005

M. Sc. Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei.Audit student. Dept. of Industrial Design, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei.Jump-Start: An Introduction to Architecture at UCLA, Los Angeles.B. Sc. Naval Architecture, National Taiwan University, Taipei.Summer session in UC Berkeley, Berkeley.Chien-Kuo Senior High School, Taipei.

EXPERIENCES:201020102010

2009 – 2011

2009 – 20112009 – 201120082007

2007 – 20112006 – 2011

2004

Contracted photographer of Xin Lian Mon Advertisement Co.Personal study partner & tour guide for French intern.Teaching assistant in high school student program, Global Initiatives Symposium in Taiwan.Research assistant of intelligent lightweight vehicle project, National Science Council.Contracted designer of Colorweb Co.

President of Architecture Modeling Club, National Taiwan University.Minister of propaganda, Student Association of Dept. of Naval Archi-tecture, National Taiwan University.Teaching assistant in water polo course, National Taiwan University.Staff of Formosun Advanced Power Research Center, Dept. of Me-chanical Engineering, National Taiwan University.School representative for National Ironman Creativity Challenge,

AWARDS:200820082009

Design award of solar yacht, National Ship Model Contest, Kaohsiung.Nominated, TECO Greentech Contest, Taipei.Scholarship from Wen-Chang Gong, Taipei.

Shih-Yen Lo

INFO:10F-1, No.296, Kaung-Fu S. Rd,Taipei City 10694, Taiwan R.O.C.

+886 912 902 336

loshihyen@gmail.com

LANGUAGES:Chinese MandarinEnglish

MODELMAKING:ManualRapid prototypingManual & CNC millingManual lathing

COMPUTER SKILLS:Graphics Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Alias Sketchbook Pro2D CAD AutoCad3D CAD CadKey Rhinoceros Catia P3 V5 SolidThinkingCAE Abaqus CAE ANSYS Photography SILKYPIX Developer Studio NeoImaging PTGUI PhotomatixOthers Microsoft Office Microsoft Visual C++ Pepakura Designer

PATENTS:20102010

Portable Electric Vehicle, Patent of Republic of China (Pending)A Multi-mode Vehicle for Multi-purpose Transportation Use, Patent of Republic of China (Pending)

PAPERS:2010 Research and Design of an Intelligent Personal Lightweight Electric

Vehicle, EVS25, ShenZheng, China

Projects

Canopy of MOCAAn canopy design for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles2006.7-2006.875*35*12mConcept design, 2D Sketch and 1:100 model.Personal Project for Architecture Jump-start program in UCLA.

SOLARKA small solar powered yacht for Tan-Sui River.2007.9-2008.24000*2500*4000mmConcept Design, 3D Modeling, Team Project for basic yacht design course in NTU, instructed by Prof. Jen-Hsian Kuo.

The six-week summer session offers three courses: Architectural His-tory from the Baroque period to Present day, Introduction to Design Studio and Introduction to Representation. This program enhanced my basic design ability which will allow my thought process in me-chanical analysis more consummate and application of the theoretical knowledge more flexible.

2006.7-2006.8 Canopy of MOCA 2007.9-2008.2 SOLARK

2007.9-2010.12 Green Jumper

Green JumperPure Electric Car2007.9-2010.124200*1800*1600mmStyling, 3D Modeling, Chasiss Design(Engineering)Teamwork with FAPRC, NTU; acknowl-edge to DELTA ELECTRONICS

The goal of this project is to build a brand-new pure electric car. The team is expected to practice the procedure to build and test a car from their own design. The car is designed to consume only 360kJ per kilometer.I took charge of the styling of this car. Start from 2D sketches and 1:10 clay model, the styling process is followed by reverse measure-ment and 3D modelling. A 1:18 rapid prototype is also produced to test the aerodynamic efficiency of the shape in a wind tunnel. Finally the car is built by carbon-fibre composites and had several road tests in during October 2010 to March 2011.

1:10 Clay model

2D Sketches

1:43 foam mockup

reverse measurement and modelling

1:18 rapid prototype for wind tunnel test

Final 3D model

EV hand building

3D Modelling in different views

Wireframe of Green Jumper

Carbon fibre composite manufacturing

Vacuum Cleanera Concept design project to transform a mouse into a vacuum cleaner2008.4 - 2008.6205*138*83mmConcept Design, idea sketches, reverse measurement, 3D Modeling, faom mockupPersonal Project for basic product design course in NTUST, instructed by Prof. Jin-Dian Cheng.

2008.4-2008.6 Vacuum Cleaner

The theme of the project is transform, which wants students to design a product in the modified shape of other products.Idea, styling, and ergonomics are the most important considerations in this project.

2008.9-2011.9 Intelligent Personal Light-weight Electric Vehicle

iPLEVIntelligent Personal Lightweight Electric Vehicle2008.9-2011.91400*600*900mmConcept Design, Styling, 3D Modeling, Mechanism Design(Engineering)Teamwork with FAPRC, NTU; acknowl-edge to NSC

This project describes a new transportation solution. The solution was created to solve recent and future transportation problem by a new design method, which contains a four-level-design process: society design, service design, vehicle design, and introduction strategy. The process carries out a new vehicle and a new business model.The business model is designed to change the current automotive business model, which would highly improve the material use and energy efficiency of passenger transit by changing the relationship and the connections between each character involved in the business model.

iPLEV, or intelligent personal lightweight electric vehicle, is the vehi-cle introduced by this transportation system. It is a 3-wheel personal vehicle which has 4 modes: driving, riding, pedestrian, and folded mode. By transforming between former 3 modes, the vehicle can be used in different places and different gestures for the driver. The folded mold is designed to combine with other mass transit systems like MRT, bus, and high speed railway…etc. By combining the iPLEV and mass transit system, we achieve our goal of door-to-door person-al transportation—the intrinsic need of human transportation.

Start from mind mapping, the iPLEV team imagine their future transportation system. The high efficiency transporta-tion system is convenient and energy-saving.

2D sketches in concept design step

Driving mode Standing mode

Folded mode Riding mode

2009.4-2009.6 Dish Dryer

Dish DryerA dish dryer which use hot air emit from fridge to dry tableware2009.4-2009.6600*430*250mmConcept Design, 3D Modeling, Personal Project of course, instructed by Cheien-Kuo Teng.

This is a personal in-course project in NTU in the topic of green design. The dish dryer is attached to refrigerator and gain its heated air to dry the tableware. To dry the dishes, the shape of vents is very important since it not only emit warm airs but also support the table-ware steadily.

Front view: opened

Front view: closed

Side views

Top views

Wireframe diagrams in different views.

Dish dryer - opened

Dish dryer - closed

2009.2-2009.4 Postcard / Paper Model Design: Library of Tawian University, Ox-ford College and Cathedral of Aletheia University

Postcard / Paper Model Design: Library of Tawian University, Oxford College and Cathedral of Aletheia University2009.2-2009.4175*124mm3D modeling, postcard layout designCo-work with Ming-Yu Wei

The objective of this project is to design two sets of postcards that can be made into 3D replica of National Taiwan University’s Main Li-brary, and Aletheia University’s Oxford College and Cathedral.

As the attachment of the yearbooks for graduationg students, each se-ries of postcards are carefully designed, in order to keep the memory of the campus, the significant building of each school are transformed into paper models.

The project is co-worked with Ming-Yu Wei, recently a M. Arch1 student of National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan.) Started from measurement and estimation, the simplified 3D models are builded and Pepakura Designer is adopted here to generate the expansions of the buildings. Based on the expansions, the exterior of the building is rendered by Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

NTU campus during sunsetphoto by loshihyen Dec, 2010

National Taiwan UniversityClass of 2011

台灣大學總圖書館Main Library of National Taiwan University

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A series of postcards about campus and library of National Taiwan University

Demos of paper model: Oxford College and Cathedral of Aletheia University

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Card 1<front>

Card 2

2010.2-2010.6 OLFA Cutter - Modified

OLFA Cutter - ModifiedCustomized wooden grip & packaging for OLFA SAC-1 cutter2010.2-2010.6190*60*10mmConcept Design, 3D Modeling, mockup, merchandisePersonal Project, consulted by Chih-Feng Li.

As a crazy modeler, a series of nice cutters is very essential for manual model building. The project wants to remind people that natural materials are the best. The idea comes from a pair of limited edition cutters with wooden grip offered by OLFA Inc. in 1983 and 1984.Started from several mockups, the shape of the grip and the auto-lock mechanism of the cutter is discussed and modifies based on ergonomics, stylish, and material.8 species of woods are finally adopted to manufacture the grip and totally about 30 cutters are modified, repackaged, and sold out rapidly.

Prototype I & II

Original wooden grip cutters by OLFA Inc.

8 models of cutters, different colors and types of texture create different charac-teristics of cutters.

Packeged cutters

On-line order management system: 30 cutters are sold within a month

Appendix

Portfolio Short VersionLast Update: April, 2011