1. Preproduction: Engineering Design
Can you design your own product?

2. Your Challenge
Throughout this project, you will walk through the engineering design process from start to finish ending with a completed prototype and a presentation that could be given to a company to sale your design.
In the first unit you will focus on preproduction.
As a team you should complete the steps below in your design notebook:

3. Create a Design Brief
Create a design brief that includes the following:
Context: states the nature of the engineering design
Task: clearly states what the team will be involved in doing
Restrictions: identifies any restrictions
Investigations: identifies the research involved
Development: States essential elements involved in planning
Preproduction: identifies the expected end result
Evaluation: Identifies the expected assessment procedure and criteria
You might create examples of each of the students to see.

4. Review the Engineering Design Process
Review each step of the engineering design process and write a description of each step.

5. Research Conduct research on your design brief topic.
Prepare a brief summary of your notes in your design notebook.
Be sure to keep a list of all of your resources.
Look at what products may already exist.

6. Develop Possible Solutions: Brainstorming
Create at least 5 design concepts and rough sketches of each design.
Analyze and evaluate at least 3 of your solutions on the merits of the design as compared to your information in your design brief.

7. Choose the Best Solution
Write a detailed description of your final solution
List the steps to operation of the device
Complete a CAD drawing of your final solution to scale.
What math and science concepts are involved in your final design?
How does your design affect each of the areas of technology?
Medical technology
Agricultural and biotechnology
Energy and power
Information and communication
Transportation
Manufacturing
Construction

8. Evaluation of the Final Solution
How does it meet the criteria of the design brief?
Describe the impact of the solution on society or the environment.

9. PowerPoint Presentation
Combine all of your information into a PowerPoint presentation.
All sketches should be scanned and placed in the presentation.

10. Rubric
Criteria
Pts Avail
Pts Earned
Design Concept
Effectiveness of the Design
10 pts
Creativity and Innovation
Presentation
PowerPoint Appearance and Completeness
Presentation Skills
Design Information
Design Brief
5 pts
Design Process Steps
3 pts
Research
Brainstorming
Analysis of 3 Solutions
Final Solution Description and Operation
Technical Drawing
Math and Science Concepts
Technology Areas
Impacts on Society and the Environment
References / Resources
2 pts
Design Notebook
Design Notebook Documentation Complete
Total Score
You will be presenting your information to the class before proceeding to part 2 of the overall project.
Classmates may make suggestions that should be documented and considered during the presentation.