Preproduction: Engineering Design Can you design your own product?

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:

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.