1. Engineering Design Central Concepts: Engineering design involves practical problem solving, research, development, and invention/innovation, and requires designing, drawing, building, testing, and redesigning. Students should demonstrate the ability to use the engineering design process to solve a problem or meet a challenge.
1.1 Identify and explain the steps of the engineering design process: identify the problem, research the problem, develop possible solutions, select the best possible solution(s), construct prototypes and/or models, test and evaluate, communicate the solutions, and redesign. Identify the problem Research the Redesign problem
Develop solutions
Construct a prototype
Write down the original problem here. Student - Design, build and program a robot to: Push another students robot outside the circle
Explore other options via the internet Student: List the internet sites that were helpful. Site 1: www.nxtprograms.com Site 2: community.digitalmediaacademy.org Site 3 _____________________
What did you learn from your research? A Make a shield B Flip the other robot C ______________________
Student : Share your ideas with your design team. List your ideas below. 1. Make a flipper to flip robot 2. Make a shield 3. Double up the wheels for power/stability
Student: Describe which solution(s) best meet the need or solve the problem. Describe exactly what idea or mixture of ideas your design team decided on for the first robot prototype? Use the next slide for your response.
Build a robot with your NXT lego kit Create a computer program for your robot. Use the next slide(s) for the digital pictures of your prototypes and computer programs.
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Does your robot work? Did it perform as expected? What changes are necessary for the robot and the program? Does it meet the original design constraints? Is it safe? Lab work- Modify your robot project and use the next slide to post a picture of your improved robot project.
Step 6 evidence
1st modified prototype picture and computer program
Provide the YouTube link of your video that shows how your robot meets the challenge.
YouTube video link :
Redesign
Overhaul the solution(s) based on information gathered during testing and self-assessment activity.