Engineering and egg . . . drop
THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION
What does it mean to engineer something? THE ASSIGNMENT Students will work in groups of three to 1) design a scaled blueprint and create an egg delivery system that safely takes the egg 'home.' - click HERE 2) analyze the results of their delivery system and an examine how cost and material constraints make affect or impact redesign efforts 3) Redesign an egg delivery system in order to demonstrate an understanding of how experimental results and other constraints drive engineering. 4) Compare and contrast our 'egg delivery' process with that of real engineers at a company of your choice. Present research results in an imovie presentation. |
THE RUBRIC
INITIAL DESIGN (12 POINTS) A detailed description of the delivery system, physics behind the design, and drawing done to scale ANALYSIS OF RESULTS (12 POINTS) Reflection and lab writeup based on qualitative and quantitative data from your experiment and those of the class REDESIGN PROPOSAL (10 POINTS) Create a persuasive argument about the redesign of your delivery system based on cost and material constraints. COMPARE AND CONTRAST ENGINEERING PROCESS (12 POINTS) Presentation OF IMOVIE COMPARING AND CONTRASTING YOUR PROCESS WITH THAT OF AN ENGINEER IN THE COMMUNITY |