Engineering design process

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Engineering design process

• Exploring our World through S.T.E.M.
• Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)

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Step lively

• Computers in your shoes?
• Ideal for training
• Tracks distance, time and calories
• Customize your musical play lists for workouts
• Battery lasts 1000 hours
• Inventors Engineers at iPod/Apple and Nike

Examples of Engineering for the Olympics!
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Down to the wire (really!)

• Support threads are like a suspension bridge
• Flywire replaces all heavy structure 3 oz
• Inexpensive may be manufactured in US
• Inventors Engineers at Nike

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Smooth Operator
Examples of Engineering for the Olympics!

• Smart prosthetic joint
• Learns an individuals movements and self
  adjusts
• Reduces hip and back strain
• Control module made of sensors, a computer chip
  and software
• Inventors Engineers at Ossur and MIT

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The engineering design process is a series of
steps that engineering teams use to guide them as
they solve problems. Anyone can do it!
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Engineers

• Engineers design and build all types of
  structures, systems and products that are
  important in our everyday lives. The engineering
  design process is a series of steps that
  engineering teams use to guide them as they solve
  problems
• Understand the need What is the problem? What do
  we want to accomplish? What are the project
  requirements? What are the limitations? Who is
  the customer? What is our goal? Gather
  information and conduct research - talking to
  people from many different backgrounds.
• Brainstorm different designs Imagine and
  brainstorm ideas. Be creative build upon the
  wild and crazy ideas of others. Investigate
  existing technologies and methods to use.
  Explore, compare and analyze many possible
  solutions.
• Select a design Based on the needs identified,
  select the most promising idea.
• Plan Draw a diagram of your idea. How will it
  work? What environmental and cultural
  considerations will you evaluate? What materials
  and tools are needed? What analyses must you do?
  How will you test it to make sure it works?
• Create Assign team tasks. Build a prototype and
  test it against your design objectives. Push
  yourself for creativity, imagination and
  excellence in design. Does it work? Analyze and
  talk about what works, what doesn't and what
  could be improved.
• Improve Discuss how you could improve your
  product. Make revisions. Draw new designs.
  Iterate your design to make your product the best
  it can be.

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It takes practice!

• To learn about an ideas strengths and
  weaknesses, inventors build a series of early
  designs called prototypes.

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Rules for Great Group work
1. Use each other's names often. 2. Listen
carefully. 3. Make sure everyone has a turn to
speak. 4. Do not use "put downs" or discouraging
words, be positive. 5. Give reasons for your
opinions. 6. Speak softly. 7. Signal that your
group has a question by all group members raising
their hands.
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What Am I expected from this class?

• Be in class, and be part of the class.
• Class participation is key to student success
  therefore, a participation grade is included each
  quarter.
• RememberThis class is just for YOU!

• To successfully complete this course, you will
  need to always be ready with your brain, a
  pencil, eraser and paper.

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Class RULES

• 1. Everyone deserves respect.
• 2. Come to class prepared.
• 3. Do your best.
• 4. Have a winning attitude.
• 5. Have fun and learn
• 6. Attendance is required

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Respect

• Respect denotes both a positive feeling of
  esteem for a person of other entity (such as a
  nation or a religion), and also specific actions
  and conduct representative of that esteem.
• An attitude of respect is, most generally, a
  relation between a subject and an object in which
  the subject responds to the object from a certain
  perspective in some appropriate way.

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Group Work Techniques

• Listen to Each Other
• Help others understand
• Talk quietly and do not disturb other groups
• Give everyone a chance to share ideas
• Share your input
• Keep a record of your work
• Assign Roles within the group and rotate
• Mutual respect and cooperation

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Learning about your classmates

• Question asking activity.
• Here is a list of twenty safe, useful icebreaker
  questions to help break the ice

• If you could have an endless supply of any food,
  what would you get?
• If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
• What is one goal youd like to accomplish during
  your lifetime?
• Who is your hero? (a parent, a celebrity, an
  influential person in ones life)
• If they made a movie of your life, what would it
  be about and which actor would you want to play
  you?
• If you were an ice cream flavor, which one would
  you be and why?
• Whats your favorite cartoon character, and why?
• If you could visit any place in the world, where
  would you choose to go and why
• Whats the ideal dream job for you?
• Are you a morning or night person?
• What are your favorite hobbies?
• Whats the weirdest thing youve ever eaten?
• Name one of your favorite things about someone in
  your family.
• If you had to describe yourself using three
  words, it would be
• If someone made a movie of your life would it be
  a drama, a comedy, a romantic-comedy, action
  film, or science fiction?