Creative Engineering Design
In December 2013, we had to think of a world wide problem and give a solution to the problem. My group was Logan Gleeson, Andrew Uyesugi, and Max vonBlankenburg. We chose to do the clear cutting of forests. Here is our "moving" video that we made.
Process:
First, we had to chose our project. Someone in our group jokingly suggested the threat of North Korea. Then we chose deforestation. So that step done, we had to chose our solution using the engineering design cycle. As you can see, our solution was a video. After that, we had to make and edit our video. That process took about 3-4 weeks. On the due date, we gave our presentation and our video. During this project, we had a guest speaker that talked about all the engineering design cycle about the rise of sea level. So that is what we did for this project.
Concept:
Engineering design cycle: Generally eight steps but it could repeat. the steps are:
1. Identify problem- What is the problem?
2. Research problem- learn about the problem
3. Develop possible solutions- What are some solutions to this problem?
4. Select best solution- What is the best solution?
5. Construct a prototype- Making a solution model
6. Test and evaluate- Testing the model
7. Present solution- Give solution to others
8. Redesign if needed
Those are the steps of the engineering design cycle. We did steps 1-4 during the project.
Reflection:
I had fun doing this project, but this could have been better. One pit is that we kept going off task a lot. We kept on making jokes and messing around. Another pit is that we didn't really research that much. So the video was not as good as it could have been. Last pit that I could work on is that I could work on being a leader so that we don't get off task a lot. One pro that happened was that this was a fun project to do. Max didn't really like our group though as you can see in the button below. Another pro is that I learned a lot during this project. I learned how engineers create experiments around problems. So this project could have been better but it was still fun.
First, we had to chose our project. Someone in our group jokingly suggested the threat of North Korea. Then we chose deforestation. So that step done, we had to chose our solution using the engineering design cycle. As you can see, our solution was a video. After that, we had to make and edit our video. That process took about 3-4 weeks. On the due date, we gave our presentation and our video. During this project, we had a guest speaker that talked about all the engineering design cycle about the rise of sea level. So that is what we did for this project.
Concept:
Engineering design cycle: Generally eight steps but it could repeat. the steps are:
1. Identify problem- What is the problem?
2. Research problem- learn about the problem
3. Develop possible solutions- What are some solutions to this problem?
4. Select best solution- What is the best solution?
5. Construct a prototype- Making a solution model
6. Test and evaluate- Testing the model
7. Present solution- Give solution to others
8. Redesign if needed
Those are the steps of the engineering design cycle. We did steps 1-4 during the project.
Reflection:
I had fun doing this project, but this could have been better. One pit is that we kept going off task a lot. We kept on making jokes and messing around. Another pit is that we didn't really research that much. So the video was not as good as it could have been. Last pit that I could work on is that I could work on being a leader so that we don't get off task a lot. One pro that happened was that this was a fun project to do. Max didn't really like our group though as you can see in the button below. Another pro is that I learned a lot during this project. I learned how engineers create experiments around problems. So this project could have been better but it was still fun.